Tim Brosnihan, Ph.D.
Executive Director of MEMS and Sensors Industry Group, SEMI

Tim Brosnihan currently serves as Executive Director of the MEMS and Sensors Industry Group (MSIG) at SEMI. The MSIG consortia represents hundreds of companies across the world, furthering the advancement of the MEMS and sensors ecosystem critical to smart devices, big data and IoT. With a goal of connecting companies, technologists and business leaders to collaborate and innovate, MSIG is positioned to promote and grow the global MEMS and sensors supply chain, helping the industry thrive. Prior to joining SEMI, Tim held various management roles in the semiconductor and MEMS industry at Analog Devices, Qualcomm, and Cirrus Logic. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Paul Carey
Director MSIG, SEMI

Paul Carey joined SEMI in April this year as the Director of the MEMS and Sensors Industry Group (MSIG). He has over 20 years of experience in semiconductor device, process, and equipment optimization while working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Applied Materials, and dpiX. He was a co-founder of his own semiconductor start-up company, FlexICs, out of LLNL. FlexICs's business plan proposed to make flexible active-matrix OLED backplanes for cellphone displays. Although FlexICs failed, very similar technology is used in the flexible cellphone displays first commercialized by Samsung.

He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Renil Paramel
Co-founder and CEO, Strategy of Things

Renil is the CEO and co-founder of Strategy of Things, an IoT and smart cities startup focused on innovation consulting, market intelligence and Innovation Labs. Renil has over 25 years of experience, serving clients in Business and Technology divisions of various Fortune companies. Prior to Strategy of Things, Renil was a Vice President with Gartner and worked for both Accenture's and Deloitte's technology strategy practices. Most recently Renil co-led the design, build and launch of a smart region innovation lab (San Mateo County's SMC Labs).

Renil helps cities, communities and businesses become smarter, more responsive and resilient through innovation, science and strategy. His recent smart cities work includes the development and operationalization of a smart region strategy for a county; the creation, launch and operationalization of a county innovation lab; connected streetlight strategy for a regional utility company; and design and construction of a smart corridor in Silicon Valley. Renil is actively involved with the NIST GCTC wireless, smart buildings and smart regions superclusters; a former mentor to the US Department of Energy's IMPEL program at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab pairing laboratory scientists with industry entrepreneurs; and a participant at the Telecom Industry Association Smart Buildings working group.

Renil has contributed to the development of the Municipal IoT Network Blueprint as well as contributed to "Smart Cities for Dummies" book. Renil's company SoT is a NIST Grant awardee for a multi-year study to identify IoT infrastructure gaps across 10 industries. Renil holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computers from the University of Mumbai and a MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

Sahil Choudhary
Director of Product Management, TDK InvenSense

Sahil Choudhary is currently a Director of Product Management at TDK InvenSense. He leads the smart motion-sensor product-line and manages business development for North America. He also heads the software strategy and marketing for motion sensors.

Sahil has been in the sensor industry for 9 years and brings a gamut of experience in building and driving sensor solutions for Consumer and IoT markets. He has led motion sensor technology development, business strategy and roadmap for a variety of applications including Wearables, Smartphones, Hearables (TWS), Extended Reality (XR), Healthcare and Robotics. He has defined and launched various sensor solutions, supported Tier-1 customers, built a software ecosystem, driven innovative sensor projects with engineering teams, and built strong mass-market visibility.

In 2014, he started his journey as a motion sensor application engineer with Freescale semiconductor. Subsequently, he started working as the Technical Marketing and Enablement Manager, where he managed NXP's Sensor Toolbox eco-system and their go-to-market strategy. In 2 years, he started his journey as a Product Manager at TDK, leading the IoT sensor and mass-market business. In his role, he was able to grow and diversify the business and motion sensor technology to key new markets such as AR/VR, TWS and Wearables.

He is a recognized guest speaker with over 80 talks and trainings on sensor challenges, trends, and key applications worldwide. His product 'SmartBug' won the Best IoT product of the year at Sensors Expo in 2020. His product also recently won the best of CES award for TWS motion sensors. As one of the youngest leaders in the sensor industry, he also co-chairs the MSIG Smart City board, defining unique sensor solutions for smart cities.

He has a MS in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University and is currently pursuing his Executive MBA from University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.