About us

Steve has 25 years of experience in the semiconductor, sensor and wireless industries. As CEO of Matrix Sensors, Steve brings his results-oriented approach to guide the growth of the company by focusing on talent, technology innovation and customers. Prior to Matrix Sensors, Steve was VP of Business Development and VP of Operations at Qualcomm, as well as General Manager at KLA. Steve holds a Ph.D. in physics from UC San Diego and a MBA from San Diego State University.

With 35 years of experience as a technical leader in the semiconductor, biotech, nanotech, and industrial automation industries, Tom has led the industrial automation and material modelling groups at Parker Hannifin’s Filtration Innovation Center, and was the VP of Engineering and Process Development at FibeRio Technology. He has also served in leadership roles at KLA-Tencor, Life Technologies, and Eastman Kodak. Tom holds a B.S. in Analytical Chemistry and a MSEE.

As a senior member of the technical staff, Jessie oversees Matrix Sensors’ Applications Lab and is responsible for all customer materials testing. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC San Diego where she studied metal-organic framework/polymer composites with Professor Seth Cohen and has over 10 years of experience in the study of gas adsorbing materials.

Marissa has 10 years of experience starting with R&D of adhesives and polymer films and transitioning to sales of analytical instruments. As Sales Director, she brings customer centricity, a growth mindset, and problem-solving skills to build strategic partnerships that help R&D organizations accelerate their materials discovery and development. She holds a B.S. in ChemE from Ohio State while completing a M.S. in CS at Georgia Tech.

Rob obtained his Ph.D. at KU Leuven (Belgium) and was a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley (USA). In 2014, he joined the KU Leuven academic staff, where he is currently a tenured professor at cMACS, the Centre for Membrane Separations, Adsorption, Catalysis, and Spectroscopy. He was awarded starting, consolidator, and proof-of-concept grants by the European Research Council for his work on microporous materials. In general, he is passionate about pushing the envelope in porous materials and process technology, with a healthy disregard for traditional subject boundaries.

Dylan is a technology executive with 25 years of experience in developing and commercializing advanced semiconductor technologies, specializing in RF and analog applications. He led the turnaround of Resonant, Inc. (RESN), growing its EV from $70M to over $300M in 26 months before its acquisition by Murata. Previously, he was President and COO of pSemi, where he led the high-volume commercialization of RF SOI. Dylan holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UT Austin and UC San Diego, and holds over 50 patents.

Omar M. Yaghi is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, renowned for pioneering Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs), and Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs). These materials, known for record-high surface areas, have applications in gas sensing, clean energy storage, carbon capture, water harvesting, and catalysis. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has published 300+ papers and ranks among the world’s most cited chemists.