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Rick Bergman

Rick Bergman

Rick Bergman joined Kymeta as President and CEO in April 2024. Rick has extensive executive leadership experience in top tier technology companies across the past two decades, most recently as Executive Vice President of AMD, a Fortune 500 company from 2019 to 2023. At AMD he managed the graphics and semi-custom businesses and combined AMD’s high-performance CPUs, GPUs and software to create differentiated solutions, growing annual revenue from $2.4B in 2019 to $6.8B in 2022. He also served as President and CEO of Synaptics, a public company, from 2011 to 2019. Rick transformed the company from a hardware module supplier to the PC business to a diversified human interface solution provider using leading edge semiconductor and software technologies for the PC, automotive, IoT and mobile markets. Previous to this Rick held several executive roles at AMD, from 2001 to 2011 as well as senior roles at S3 and Texas Instruments. Rick graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and received his MBA from the University of Colorado.

Tren Griffin

Tren Griffin

Tren Griffin is a Senior Director at Microsoft Corporation. Tren became a member of the Kymeta’s Board of Directors in March 2018. He writes the www.25iq.com blog and is active on Twitter (@TrenGriffin). Tren was formerly a partner at Eagle River, a private equity firm controlled by Craig McCaw with investments telecommunications and startups. He was a co-founder of Teledesic and was on the team that secured the ITU allocation for NGSO FSS at WRC-95. He previously worked as a consultant in Australia and Korea. He is the author of six books, including Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor.

Doug Hutcheson

Doug Hutcheson

Doug joined Kymeta in 2019 and was responsible for the strategic and financing activities of the company, retiring from the position of Chairman and Co-CEO in March 2024. During his five years with the company, he oversaw the technology development that met the needs of the defense and commercial markets, grew the business to record revenues in 2023 and developed a world leading technology platform and roadmap for the continued evolution of metamaterials. He previously served as a senior advisor of Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) for Searchlight Capital. Most recently, he participated in the sale of Electric Lightwave/ Integra to Zayo for $1.4B which provided a nearly three times return on invested capital. Doug served as chief executive officer and a director of Laser, Inc., a corporation created in connection with the acquisition of Leap Wireless International (Leap) by AT&T. Doug formerly served as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Leap Wireless Incorporated and its operating subsidiary Cricket Communications, where he was responsible for developing and implementing strategy, all operations, and the oversight of all relationships and partnerships for the Company until its sale in March 2014 to AT&T.

Nicole Piasecki

Nicole Piasecki

Nicole Piasecki joined Kymeta’s Board of Directors in June 2022 and was appointed Executive Chair April, 1, 2024. Ms. Piasecki is an aerospace industry veteran. Nicole was Vice President and General Manager of the Propulsion Systems Division of Boeing's commercial aircraft business from 2013-2017. During her 25 years with The Boeing Company, she held a number of senior executive roles, including Senior Vice President - Business Development & Strategic Integration and Vice President of Business Strategy and Marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. She also served as President of Boeing Japan. She is currently serving as a board member of BAE Systems, the UK’s largest defense and security company. She also serves on the board of the Weyerhaeuser Company, and Alitheon, an optical AI company and she is a senior advisor to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Ms. Piasecki formerly was appointed and served on the Federal Aviation Authority's Management Advisory Board, the US Department of Transportation's Future of Aviation Advisory Committee, the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Seattle branch. She is a graduate of Yale University and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and studied at Keio Business School, Japan.

Gene Renuart

Gene Renuart

General Gene Renuart, USAF (Ret), joined the company’s Board of Directors in September 2022. Mr. Renuart is the Founder and President of The Renuart Group (TRG), LLC, a defense, homeland security, energy, project management, and leadership consulting firm, with offices in Colorado and North Carolina. TRG provides strategic advice to DoD agencies, defense-related corporations, and commercially backed public, private partnerships designed to assist the DoD in budget-constrained infrastructure requirements. General Renuart’s Air Force career culminated as Commander, NORAD and US Northern Command after nearly 39 years of distinguished service. In this last role, he was responsible for providing for the Homeland Defense and Defense Support to Civilian Authorities for the United States, and for partnering with Canada and Mexico in broader security issues for North America. The General serves on boards of public and privately owned corporations as well as several philanthropic and university foundations.

Josh Wolfe

Josh Wolfe

Josh Wolfe, joined the Kymeta Board of Directors in August 2012. Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better—like, say, creating matter from light. Josh is a Director at Shapeways, Strateos, Lux Research, Kallyope, CTRL-labs, Variant, and Varda, and helped lead the firm’s investments in Anduril, Planet, Echodyne, Clarifai, Authorea, Resilience and Hadrian. Josh is a Westinghouse semi-finalist and published scientist. He previously worked in investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney and in capital markets at Merrill Lynch. In 2008 Josh co-founded and funded Kurion, a contrarian bet in the unlikely business of using advanced robotics and state-of-the-art engineering and chemistry to clean up nuclear waste. It was an unmet, inevitable need with no solution in sight. The company was among the first responders to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. In February 2016, Veolia acquired Kurion for nearly $400 million—34 times Lux’s total investment. Josh is a columnist with Forbes and Editor for the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report. He has been invited to The White House and Capitol Hill to advise on nanotechnology and emerging technologies, and a lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia and NYU. He is a term member at The Council on Foreign Relations and Chairman of Coney Island Prep charter school, where he grew up in Brooklyn. He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Economics and Finance.

Dongwan Yoo

Dongwan Yoo

Dongwan Yoo, Senior Executive Vice President of Hanwha Aerospace Co., Ltd. and Hanwha Systems Co., Ltd., also serving as the President and CEO of Hanwha Phasor Ltd. and Hanwha Systems UK Ltd. Yoo spearheads Hanwha’s Space & UAM business initiatives. Mr. Yoo joined the Kymeta Board of Directors in December 2022. He joined Hanwha Group in 2006. Mr. Yoo brings a breadth of experience in new business development and corporate strategy with his 17 years of experience at Hanwha. His recent activities have been focused on the aerospace & defense sector, including serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Hanwha Aerospace USA (Connecticut, US), Head of Commercial Aviation Division, and Planning & Strategy at Hanwha Aerospace. He is currently dual-hatted as the Head of Air Space Business Unit at Hanwha Systems and the Head of Space Business Unit at Hanwha Aerospace. Of note, his unit played a role in the recent successful launches of Nuri-Korea’s homegrown space rocket program. Prior to joining Hanwha, Yoo began his career at LG Group and later worked as a consultant for Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Arthur D. Little (ADL) for over 10 years. In addition to his corporate leadership roles, Yoo also serves as a Board Member of OneWeb Holdings Ltd (London, UK), Overair Inc. (California, US), Kymeta Corporation (Washington, US), and Satrec Initiative Co., Ltd (Korea). He also served on the Board of P&W NGPF Manufacturing Company Singapore Pte. Ltd. from 2016 to 2021. Mr. Yoo holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Korea University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University.

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Fran Beaudette

Fran Beaudette

Fran Beaudette became an advisor to Kymeta’s Board of Directors in April 2022. Mr. Beaudette has 30-plus years of operational and leadership responsibilities culminating in command of USSOCOM’s largest component, the US Army’s 38K Soldier and Civilian Special Operations Command. Fran is fluent in French, holds a TS-SCI clearance, and has significant experience in diverse global national security challenges. He is a highly respected strategic leader with a background in crisis management, information operations and warfare, innovation, strategic planning, leader development, training, education, and resource management.

Matt Grob

Matt Grob

Matt Grob became an advisor to Kymeta’s Board of Directors in September 2020. Mr. Grob is the chief technology officer of XCOM, and is responsible for XCOM Labs, which develops innovative wireless technologies. Matt previously spent over 26 years at Qualcomm in technology and engineering leadership roles. He served as Qualcomm’s EVP and CTO from 2011 to 2017, overseeing R&D and managing a global team of 2,200 employees across various divisions worldwide, and later as EVP/Technology. Mr. Grob holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Bradley University and a M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is a trustee of the Fleet Science Center in San Diego, and a volunteer for over a decade at FIRST, the robotics and education organization inspiring future leaders in science and technology.

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