Izak Bencuya has 24 years of industry experience. He began his career at Yale University where he researched ultra thin oxide MOS devices. Dr. Bencuya later worked at GTE Laboratories and Siliconix in various research and management roles to develop and market leading edge Power Discrete devices, such as MOSFETs, IGBTs and SITs. He joined Fairchild in 1994 to start the Low Voltage MOSFET business which has grown to be one of the major revenue and earnings generating lines at Fairchild. He was recently named senior vice president to run the Power Discrete Products line.
Dr. Bencuya has a B.S.E.E. from Bosphorous University in Istanbul, Turkey, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley. He was the recipient of the IBM Fellowship, the Thomas Alva Edison Fellowship and the Charles Deere Wiman Fellowship and is a member of the IEEE Electron Device Society and Electrochemical Society. Dr. Bencuya holds 15 patents and has published extensively in the electronics field. |