2026 WISH Conference

Alexis Björlin

Chief Strategy Officer

General Catalyst

Alexis Björlin is General Catalyst’s Chief Strategy Officer. In this role, Alexis works across our transformation businesses to build a flywheel for scaling, establishing, and executing our strategy to build the highest-performance, lowest-cost intelligence infrastructure for our overall AI transformation agenda.

Alexis brings a career that has run straight through the infrastructure of AI. At Nvidia, she was SVP & GM DGX Cloud, responsible for building Nvidia’s cloud business and scaling their internal multi-cloud infrastructure to one of the largest AI fleets in the world. Prior to Nvidia, Alexis led Infrastructure at Meta, where her team was responsible for hardware-software co-designed systems, including AI systems, compute and storage platforms, kernel, and custom silicon. She was an SVP and GM at Broadcom, and led three Data Center business units at Intel spanning Ethernet, High Performance Computing, and Silicon Photonics, and spent eight years as President of Source Photonics, building an optoelectronics manufacturing business across China and Taiwan.

Alexis currently serves on the board of Micron Technology and has previously served on the Boards of Digital Realty [NYSE:DLR], Astera Labs, Celestial.AI, and the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA). She holds a B.S. in Materials Science from MIT and a Ph.D. from UCSB.

Audrey Charles

SVP Corporate Strategy, Advanced Packaging, Lam Research and President, Lam Capital

Lam Research

Audrey Charles is senior vice president of corporate strategy, advanced packaging, and president of Lam Capital at Lam Research. In this role she leads the development of our long term strategy in support of the company’s sustainable outperformance. She is also responsible for accelerating the company’s market-leading position in advanced packaging by delivering differentiated technology and support to customers across Lam’s product portfolio.

Additionally, Audrey oversees Lam’s Corporate Development team and investment arm, Lam Capital, which invests in disruptive companies that advance the semiconductor ecosystem through next generation industrial automation, technology and product innovation, and new market opportunities. She brings a broad base of experience to her role, including engineering, customer technology management and enterprise leadership roles in investor relations and Human resources. Since joining Lam in 1995, she has served in a range of leadership positions including senior vice president of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning.

Audrey earned an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.S. in applied physics from Dublin City University.

An Mei Chen

VP of Engineering and Site Lead for Vietnam R&D Center

Qualcomm

Dr. An Mei Chen is Vice President of Engineering and site lead for Qualcomm’s Vietnam R&D Center, where she leads AI research, SoC design, software engineering, and systems. She is building a multidisciplinary organization that connects fundamental research, platform prototyping, semiconductor design, and software development, while developing regional talent and strengthening collaboration across industry and academia.

During more than two decades at Qualcomm, Dr. Chen has led innovation across wireless communications, multimedia, AI, IoT, and automotive technologies. She has built and led global, cross-functional teams, helping move ideas from early research through prototyping and toward real-world deployment. Her career reflects a consistent commitment to combining technical innovation with practical impact.

Dr. Chen has also played an important role in growing innovation ecosystems across Asia. She launched Qualcomm’s startup incubation programs in Asia and led university research collaborations across the region. Through these efforts, she has supported entrepreneurs, researchers, and students in translating promising ideas into meaningful technologies and opportunities.

A prolific inventor, Dr. Chen holds over 500 international patents and has authored numerous technical publications and book chapters. She received the 2024 GSA Women of Influence Award and the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award. She earned her B.S. with honors and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego.

Beyond her technical leadership, Dr. Chen is committed to developing people and expanding opportunities for women, first-generation students, and underrepresented innovators. Through mentoring and advisory service, she supports innovation, entrepreneurship, and STEM education. At WISH, she hopes to bring a global perspective shaped by building technologies, teams, and organizations across disciplines and regions. Her journey offers practical lessons on embracing change, pursuing meaningful opportunities, and helping others grow into leadership.

Jennifer Lloyd

President & CEO

Power Integrations

Dr. Lloyd joined Power Integrations as President, CEO and a member of the Board of Directors in July 2025. Prior to that, she served in a succession of engineering and business roles spanning nearly three decades at Analog Devices, Inc., a global semiconductor leader. Most recently, she was Corporate Vice President leading the company’s MultiMarket Power business unit; prior roles included leadership of Analog’s Precision Franchise and its Healthcare and Consumer Business. Jen’s technical background is in developing data converter (ADC, DAC) and serial interface integrated circuit products and technology for which she holds 9 US patents and several publications, including a Best Paper Award at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). She has served on the technical program committee for the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, and the ISSCC Imager, Medical, MEMs and Display (IMMD) Program Committee. Jen also served on the Board of Power Integrations from 2021 to 2022, and the Advisory Board for the Dean of Engineering at WPI (Worcester Polytechnic
Institute). Dr. Lloyd holds S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Julie Sheridan Eng

EVP, Optical Components and Chief Technology Officer

Coherent

Julie Sheridan Eng is the EVP, Optical Components and Chief Technology Officer at Coherent. She was named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Coherent in 2022. Prior to becoming CTO, Dr. Eng served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Optoelectronic Devices and Modules Business Unit, leading engineering, product management, and operations for VCSELs, InP lasers and detectors, and CMOS/BiCMOS ICs for datacom and 3D sensing.

Prior to Coherent, she held senior leadership roles at Finisar, including EVP and GM of 3D Sensing and EVP of Datacom Engineering, where her teams launched hundreds of fiber optic transceiver products and delivered multiple industry firsts. She began her career at AT&T Bell Laboratories/Lucent/Agere, leading development of laser-based datacom transceivers.

Dr. Eng is a Past Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of Optica. She has published extensively, holds six U.S. patents, and is a frequent invited speaker. She was named an Optica Fellow in 2022, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025, and received the 2025 Dr. Lisa Su Woman of Innovation Award from the Global Semiconductor Alliance.

She holds a B.A. in Physics from Bryn Mawr College, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Jutta Meier

CEO & CFO

IQE

Jutta is an experienced industry executive who has held senior positions at global semiconductor companies for close to 30 years.

She joined IQE in January 2024 from Intel Corporation and she has held senior executive roles at GlobalFoundries and AMD. Her expertise spans corporate strategy, capital allocation, governance, M&A, transformation and global manufacturing operations.

In addition to leading IQE, she serves on the UK Government’s Semiconductor Advisory Panel and the UK Semiconductor Centre’s Interim Steering Group, helping shape the future of the semiconductor industry. She holds an Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Dresden University of Technology.

Manisha Gambhir

Senior Director of Engineering, Analog Mixed Signal

Marvell Semiconductor

Dr. Manisha Gambhir is a Senior Director and Technology Architect at Marvell Semiconductor, where she leads global teams developing high-performance, mass-production-ready mixed-signal IPs in advanced process technologies. Her work has been instrumental in enabling breakthrough products across AI infrastructure, networking, storage, and automotive markets. In recognition of her technical leadership and industry impact, she was the recipient of the 2025 GSA Rising Woman in Semiconductor Award.

Dr. Gambhir began her career at Texas Instruments as an analog design engineer and earned both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. An accomplished inventor, she holds multiple U.S. patents spanning circuit design and system architecture. Since joining Marvell, she has advanced through successive technical and leadership roles, building a portfolio of transformative technologies and products while

establishing herself as a respected thought leader within the company and the broader semiconductor ecosystem. At Marvell, she serves on several strategic committees, including the Patent Committee, Marvell Innovation Contest, Marvell Engineering Technical Conference, and University Engagement Committee, helping drive innovation, technical excellence, and talent development. She is also a frequent speaker and panelist at industry conferences and technical forums.

Beyond her business and technology leadership, Dr. Gambhir is deeply committed to mentoring the next generation of engineers and leaders. She is actively involved in early career and university programs, and industry-wide women leadership initiatives such as the GSA Women in Hardware Mentorship Program. Through GSA, Manisha has gained valuable opportunities for mentorship, executive education, and meaningful connections with trailblazing women in the semiconductor industry. She actively pays this forward by championing STEM education, both within Marvell and across the broader ecosystem, fostering a more diverse and inclusive technical community.

Qi Wang

Distinguished Engineer

Marvell Technology

Qi Wang is a Distinguished Engineer at Marvell Technology, where she leads the Central Physical Verification CAD team. With over 25 years of experience at the intersection of semiconductor design and engineering leadership, she has built a career defined by technical innovation, team empowerment, and the deliberate integration of AI into complex engineering workflows.

Qi’s team has enabled physical verification flows for more than 80 chip tapeouts across 10+ technology nodes—including TSMC A16, N2P, N3P, SoIC, and CoWoS—collaborating with major foundries such as TSMC, Samsung, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES. She pioneered Marvell’s 3DIC physical verification methodology, enabling the company’s first SoIC tapeout, and co-developed a novel multi-level ESD verification framework for heterogeneous stacked chiplet systems, for which she has filed a provisional patent.

A firm believer in AI as a force multiplier, Qi has led the development of Marvell’s AI-enabled PV Assistant platform—a suite of tools that eliminates manual verification work through natural language interfaces, ML-based runtime prediction, and autonomous agentic pipelines. She has driven a goal of 20% efficiency and quality improvement across PV flows through AI adoption, and has influenced EDA vendor roadmaps at Siemens and Synopsys through strategic technology roadmap meetings.

As a leader, Qi invests deeply in growing her team. She delegates meaningful ownership to engineers at all levels, mentors junior engineers on AI integration and innovation, and fosters a culture where ideas move from concept to production. She completed Marvell’s Technical Leadership Mentoring Program (TLMP) and has participated in the Marvell Elevate Mentoring for Women Leaders program.

Qi has presented at WISH GSA, SNUG, DAC, Siemens U2U, and Marvell Connect. She holds a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Rani Borkar

President, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure

Microsoft

Rani Borkar is President of Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure at Microsoft, where she leads the teams responsible for planning, architecting, developing, and deploying the end-to-end hardware and infrastructure that powers Microsoft Azure, from silicon and systems to supply chain and global capacity deployment.

A pioneer in the semiconductor industry, Borkar brings more than 35 years of experience shaping some of the most significant platform shifts in modern computing, including the rise of the PC, mobile computing, multicore processors, and today’s era of cloud and AI.

At Microsoft, Borkar has been instrumental in strengthening Azure’s position as a leading enterprise cloud platform serving more than 95% of the Fortune 500.  As part of that work, she  built  Microsoft’s first-party  silicon portfolio,  including Cobalt, Azure’s Arm-based CPU, and  the  Maia  AI accelerator.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Borkar spent 27 years at Intel, where she served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager in the Product Development Group, leading silicon product strategy for industry-defining processor families including Intel Xeon, Core, Atom, Pentium, and Celeron. She also held senior leadership roles at IBM, including Vice President of OpenPOWER Development.

She serves on the boards of Applied Materials and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).

Borkar holds  bachelor’s  and master’s  degrees  in physics from the University of Mumbai, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute.

Viviana D'Alto

Artificial Intelligence SW & Tools Research Director (SRA/SCIS)

STMicroelectronics

Yanfang Le

Principal Network Architect

AMD

Yanfang Le, Ph.D., is a Principal Network Architect at AMD specializing in AI networking, distributed systems, and high-performance networking technologies. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2020 and has since become a recognized leader in the design of scalable networking solutions for next-generation AI and cloud infrastructure. Her work spans RDMA transport, congestion control, programmable hardware, collective communications, and performance optimization for large-scale distributed systems.

At AMD, Yanfang plays a key role in advancing networking technologies for large-scale AI deployments. She is a major contributor to the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), where she has helped architect innovative transport solutions for AI networking, including congestion management, multipath load balancing, packet loss recovery, and performance scalability. Her contributions have helped shape emerging standards and technologies for future AI data center networks.

Beyond her technical work, Yanfang has been an active leader in industry standards development. She previously served as Chair of the UEC Performance and Debug Working Group, leading cross-industry collaboration on benchmarking methodologies, performance characterization, and debugging frameworks for AI networking environments. Prior to joining AMD, she worked at Intel, where she contributed to RoCEv2 networking technologies and co-invented Back-to-Sender (BTS) and Source Flow Control, innovations that have influenced ongoing industry standardization efforts.

A recipient of the 2025 WISH Female Up & Comer Award, Yanfang is also a prolific researcher and inventor. She has authored more than 10 peer-reviewed publications, holds more than 10 patents, and has received multiple Best Paper Awards. She serves on the program committees of leading systems and networking conferences, including NSDI and EuroSys, and continues to help shape the future of AI and high-performance networking through technical innovation, industry leadership, and community engagement.