2025 Asia Pacific Executive Forum

Bill Brennan

President and CEO

Credo

For more than 25 years, Bill Brennan has been leading and scaling organizations to deliver steady revenue growth and profit. Bill joined Credo in 2013, leading the company to its IPO in January 2022. He has overseen Credo’s growth from a small startup to an organization of more than 500 employees worldwide. Under his stewardship, the company has pioneered revolutionary networking technologies based on Credo’s high-performance, low-power SerDes technology, including Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and Linear Receive Optics (LRO). Bill also supports numerous national and regional nonprofit organizations focused on health, education, and children’s causes.

Before joining Credo, Bill served as Vice President of the Storage Business Unit with Marvell Semiconductor for 11 years. Prior to Marvell, he held sales management positions with NEC and Texas Instruments. Bill received his BSEE degree from the University of Colorado.

Hamid Arabzadeh

Co-founder and CEO

Ranovus

Hamid Arabzadeh is Co-Founder and CEO of RANOVUS, a leader in photonic interconnect solutions enabling AI compute scaling in hyperscale data centers. Under his leadership, RANOVUS pioneered a full-stack co-design approach—spanning lasers, silicon photonics, ICs, and packaging—to deliver the industry’s most power-efficient, cost-effective photonic engines, replacing copper interconnects in large-scale AI infrastructure.

Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of COREOPTICS, a photonic subsystems innovator acquired by Cisco in 2010. Earlier, he held senior leadership roles at Nortel Networks across multiple regions, ultimately serving as VP & GM of the Metro DWDM Optical business unit. Beyond RANOVUS, he co-founded and invests in Canadian scaleups in AI sovereign cloud, cybersecurity, and healthcare.

Arabzadeh holds a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from McGill University.

Magdalene Tennant

Managing Director

Fragomen

Magdalene is the Managing Director of Fragomen in Hong Kong, with over 30 years of experience helping companies and individuals navigate complex immigration landscapes across the Asia Pacific region. She began her career with the Australian Government, informed by her own journey as a foreign student, which gave her unique insight into the challenges faced by non-native English speakers navigating visa processes.

At Fragomen for more than two decades, Magdalene has advised multinational corporations and individuals on complex immigration matters, including mergers and acquisitions, de-registrations, workforce mobility and contingency planning. She has been instrumental in shaping innovative immigration strategies, collaborating with Hong Kong authorities to design tailored visa solutions that address evolving business needs.

With deep expertise across the Asia Pacific region, Magdalene is recognized for her ability to align immigration strategies with organizational goals, ensuring compliance while enabling workforce agility. She holds a degree from the Australian National University.

Mario Morales

Group Vice President, Enabling Technologies and Semiconductors

IDC

Mario Morales is the group vice president of IDC’s enabling technologies, semiconductor, and storage research. He is responsible for in-depth analysis, evaluation of emerging markets and trends, forecasting, and research of major semiconductor industry segments such as embedded and intelligent systems, wireless, personal computing, networking and cloud infrastructure, automotive electronics, and AI semiconductors.

Mr. Morales is a trusted advisor to leading high tech company executives, financial investors, and bankers on market landscape and direction, product and technology positioning, competitive benchmarking, M&A, hardware, and software technology, and brand health and sustainability. He is also the leading advisor and expert analyst for IDC’s largest Wall Street clients including investment banking, VC’s, and mutual and hedge funds across every major financial region.

Over his career, Mr. Morales has authored and co-authored over 240 reports and studies in the area of semiconductors, mobile, PC, wireless, embedded, IoT, and IT marketplace. His career includes past positions with NEC Electronics and Dataquest.

Maryam Rofougaran

Co-founder and CEO

Movandi

Maryam Rofougaran is Cofounder and CEO of Movandi, a leader in 5G mmWave technology, advanced RF chipsets, and complete RF systems enabling the high-performance connectivity essential for AI-driven applications and massive data demands. With over 25 years in the semiconductor and wireless industries, Maryam previously served as Senior VP of Wireless Radios at Broadcom, helping grow its wireless business to over $3 billion annually. She began her career as cofounder of Innovent Systems, the first to deliver market-defining SoC integration for short-range wireless—technology later deployed in billions of devices worldwide after Broadcom’s acquisition.

A prolific inventor with 300+ patents and 58 publications, Maryam earned her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Recognized by Inc.’s Most Influential Women and Light Reading’s MVPs, she is a member of the CNBC CEO Council and the Global Semiconductor Alliance CEO Council.

Mike Noonen

CEO

Swave Photonics

Mike Noonen is CEO of Swave Photonics, B.V., and has 30 years of experience leading technology businesses, resulting in two IPOs and multiple acquisitions. Most recently, he was the CEO of MixComm, Inc. from 2019 until it was acquired by Sivers Semiconductor in early 2022. From 2013 until 2015, Noonen was the Chairman and co-founder of Silicon Catalyst, Inc., the World’s 1st semiconductor incubator and EE Times 2015 Start-up of the Year. Previously, Noonen was:
• EVP, Global Products, Design, Sales, & Marketing at GlobalFoundries
• EVP, Worldwide Sales & Marketing, at NXP Semiconductors, B.V.
• SVP, Global Sales & Marketing at National Semiconductor

In 2013, he was elected to the Global Semiconductor Alliance Board of Directors. He holds a BSEE from Colorado State University and, in 2012, was named the College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni of the Year. Noonen holds multiple patents in the areas of Internet telephony and video communications