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September 19, 2006: Don't Lose Your Current – Learn About Passive Parts for Power Supply Applications.
Log on to TTI’s Technical Seminar Series and hear what leading edge manufacturers AVX, KEMET, and Panasonic have to say about their latest offering for power supplies. This seminar will be moderated by TTI’s Mark Burr-Lonnon. Dennis Zogbi from Paumanok Publications will provide valuable market insight, and the suppliers will share the key focus design parameters behind their best, newest, and key passive components targeted toward the power supply marketplace.
Moderator:
Mark Burr-Lonnon
Mark presently is TTI's Vice President of Supplier Marketing for passive and specialty components. Prior to joining TTI, Burr-Lonnon was CEO for Yageo America, Global Distribution Manager at Phillips Components and Phycomp, and held senior sales positions at both Avnet and Arrow in Europe. At TTI, Burr-Lonnon serves as a liaison by actively marketing TTI to current and potential suppliers and marketing the suppliers within the TTI selling organization.
Presenters:
Dennis Zogbi, President and Owner, Paumanok Group
Dennis is President and Owner of the Paumanok Group, comprised of Paumanok Publications, Inc., Industrial Market Research Division, and Passive Component Industry magazine.
Paumanok provides services to more than 500 customers globally in the total supply chain for passive components, including mines, materials processors, component manufacturers, distributors, and OEM and EMS companies.
The Industrial Market Research Division is the predominant worldwide supplier of market research services to the passive component industry, specializing in off-the-shelf market studies (60 titles on passive components); directed market research (single-client); international market development; bill of materials consulting in passive components; and conferences and seminars.
Ron Demcko, AVX Fellow, AVX Corporation
Ron has worked in applications and product development roles with military-qualified, radiation resistant passive components at Corning Glassworks. Ron also has experience in the areas of product development with Pulse resistant capacitors, high temperature capacitors and radiation resistant single layer capacitors. He has developed high frequency test methods for RF capacitor parametric characterization and production and co-developed high temperature test systems for advanced product lines.
Currently, Ron is an AVX Fellow and manages the AVX EMC lab in Raleigh, N.C. This role centers on working with sub assembly testing and the implementation of passive component solutions. Ron also works in the areas of product development with integrated passive components, signal integrity system fixes and transient voltage suppression devices. Ron holds a BSEE from Clarkson College of Technology.
John Prymak, Director of Applications, KEMET Electronics Corporation
John is the Director of Applications in the Technical Marketing group for KEMET Electronics Corp. John has worked at KEMET for the past 16 years in various technical roles, concentrating on new product development, testing and applications. He also worked for AVX for the previous 15 years, bringing his total experience with capacitor applications to more than 30 years. John has authored many papers that have been presented at technical symposiums covering capacitors in power applications, failure analysis, flex, surge, EMI/RFI, ESD, low inductance, and electrical performance. John is also the author of KEMET Spice and KEMET's FIT Calculator software.
Len Metzger, Senior Applications Engineer, Panasonic Industrial Company
Len is a Senior Applications Engineer with Panasonic Industrial Company, Electronic Components group and is currently active in the Electronic Components Association (ECA) and National Electronic Distributors Association (NEDA). Previously, he was a Product Manager for ceramic and inductor products.
Prior to joining Panasonic Len was in the semiconductor and instrumentation industries with involvement in integrated circuits, digital and analog meters in various marketing roles. Len has a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.