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.

Handel Jones

Founder and CEO

International Business Strategies (IBS)

Dr. Jones has over 50 years of experience in the electronics industry. He held senior management positions at ITT and other companies. At Rockwell, he was VP of Strategic Planning, Acquisitions, International Marketing, and Engineering of the Commercial Electronics Group. As VP of Engineering at Rockwell, Dr. Jones had over 1,500 engineers reporting to him, covering communications, avionics, and semiconductors. Dr. Jones was also the President and COO of a publicly traded semiconductor company. He steered the company through a successful public offering and a key acquisition.

Dr. Jones has written various books on China, including When AI Rules the World, Artificial Intelligence: How AI and IA Reshape the Future, China’s Globalization (How China Becomes No. 1), and Chinamerica (McGraw-Hill).

Remi El-Ouazzane

President, Microcontrollers, Digital ICs and RF products Group

STMicroelectronics

Remi El-Ouazzane is STMicroelectronics’ President, Microcontrollers, Digital ICs and RF products Group and has held this position since February 2024. He is also functionally responsible for the corporate System Research and Applications organization and is a member of ST’s Executive Committee.

El-Ouazzane started his career at Texas Instruments in 1997. He rose through the ranks across the broadband, mobile, and embedded processing divisions to become Vice President and General Manager of the Open Multimedia Applications Platform (OMAP) in 2009. El-Ouazzane was appointed CEO of Movidius in 2013, responsible for driving its vision-processing technologies to advance the adoption of AI in the Internet of Things. With the acquisition of Movidius by Intel in 2016, he joined Intel’s New Technology Group as Vice President and General Manager, and became Chief Operating Officer of Intel’s Artificial Intelligence Products Group in 2018. In 2020, El-Ouazzane became Intel’s Datacenter Platform Group Chief Strategy Officer, driving strategic initiatives in the data center and cloud markets.

In 2009, El-Ouazzane was honored with the French-American Foundation’s Young Leaders Award.

Remi El-Ouazzane was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France in 1973 and graduated from the Grenoble Institute of Technology (INPG) in 1996 and the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies in 1997. He graduated from the General Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2004.