Our Teams
At the Analog Garage, our team knows how to cultivate bold ideas and build new businesses. We combine engineering expertise and global networks with intensive business mentorship across many disciplines, including finance, manufacturing, product development, and sales.
Venture Team
Pat Coady
Division General Manager, Analog Garage
Pat leads the Analog Garage team and focuses on graduating incredible technology out of our labs and out into the world. Pat appreciates that the Garage's success depends on hiring world-class talent and applying multiple disciplines to our most valuable problems. And, that sometimes the best ideas may come from outside our walls, from start-ups or the world’s top universities. Pat has 25 years of R&D experience developing products that consistently delight customers: from cutting edge consumer audio circuits and systems, to the latest in deep learning-based computer vision solutions.
Alain Guery
Director, Emerging Business
Alain leads a dedicated team of PhDs and business strategists scouting, exploring, and cultivating disruptive ideas from inside and outside ADI. While medical and wearables are recent areas of interest, Alain spent much of his career collaborating alongside innovators in the industrial markets. Alain is highly regarded for the depth and breadth of his knowledge of semiconductors, energy and power devices, sensor-to-cloud systems and sensor device technology, particularly chemical, optical, and biological sensors. Alain’s business development team provides coaching and engineering support to start-ups primarily through accelerators and incubators.
Mihai Murgulescu
Emerging Business Manager
Mihai has an Electrical Engineering degree from his native Romania, followed by an MSc and a PhD from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, from Paris, France. Mihai held various positions in RF design at Philips Semiconductors, Maxim Integrated Products, and Qorvo. He founded and served as CTO of Cresta Technology, a startup in the field of television reception. He also owned a practice in the fields of patents and RF engineering. Mihai is a USPTO Registered Patent Agent.
Nimrode Moreshet
Director of Emerging Business, Analog Garage
Nimrode leads the Analog Garage West team of business development and systems engineering experts based in San Jose. He joins the Analog Garage from ADI’s corporate M&A group where his strategic vision, financial analysis, and instincts for disruptive ideas drove a number of small, medium, and large deals.
Roman Trogan
Senior Systems Architect, Emerging Business Group
Roman is responsible for technical and business assessment with an emphasis on new ideas for bioengineering systems and technologies, RF and microwave electronic systems, and computer architecture. He evaluates the system design aspects of new business ideas and looks for ways to collaborate. Roman has been on the ground floor of start-ups and is passionate about finding deep tech breakthroughs that can thrive in the stochastic world of emerging businesses.
Ashish Shah
Emerging Business Development
Ashish drives new business development & disruptive technology innovation focused on energy storage systems, machine learning & predictive analytics, and all things RF. He brings significant experience in leading new technology, product and business development at scale across international boundaries in areas such as handsets, high speed converters, and wireless communication systems.
Vlad Kvartenko
Systems/Product Engineering Manager
As a member of the Analog Garage H3 Team, Vlad vets new ideas, mentors idea champions through the funnel process, helps to develop, validate, mature and bring to the market new technologies. Vlad led Product Engineering efforts on the first successfully graduated Analog Garage project. Vlad is passionate about bringing innovative ideas to market-ready level. His main areas of expertise are wireless telecommunication systems, mixed signal systems, hardware design, embedded systems design, mixed signal IC design validation and test.
Research Team
Jonathan Yedidia
Director of AI Research
Jonathan directs the Algorithmic Systems Group at Analog Garage, which creates advanced signal processing and AI algorithms, and implements those algorithms in efficient hardware to solve real world problems. He studied and researched AI algorithms for over 30 years at Princeton, Bell Labs, Harvard, the Ecole Normale Superieure, MERL, and Disney Research, before coming to Analog Garage in 2016.
Bernal Arroyo
Software Architecture & Technology Development, Emerging Business Group
Bernal has an extensive background in embedded software and wireless systems, system architecture, and project management. At the Analog Garage West, he leads projects, and analyzes technology in the areas of AI, software, and development platforms. Prior to joining ADI, he worked for several Silicon Valley start-ups as well as some larger companies like Atheros, Qualcomm, and Grundig. He holds a BSEE from CalPoly, SLO, and an MSEE from Santa Clara University.
Colm Prendergast
Principal Engineer and Principal System Architect
Colm works on algorithms and systems for autonomous vehicle sensing applications. During his career at ADI Colm has led projects in a wide variety of applications areas including, Digital Video, Audio, Communications and DSP, and MEMs. Most recently Colm has led ADI’s cloud technology development effort in the IoT space. Colm holds 14 US patents and is a member of IEEE and SIGGRAPH. Colm received a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering from University of Limerick, Ireland and a Master’s Degree from University College Cork, Ireland.
Greg Davis
RF Systems Engineer
Greg brings RF, signal processing and systems engineering expertise to the west coast Garage team. He identifies and evaluates opportunities to connect innovative startups to Analog Devices resources, particularly in the wireless space. He enjoys bridging gaps: between analog and digital, algorithms and hardware, research and production, technology and people. Greg's background includes communications infrastructure and experimental cosmology instrument design.
Jason King
Software Engineer, Analog Garage Team Lead
Jason joined the Garage with 20 years of experience in the ATE industry in electrical, systems, and software engineering, where he focused on systems architecture and performance. His interests include programming languages, algorithms, and software engineering practices.
