Rob Conant

Rob Conant

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Chief Executive Officer
Burlingame, California, United States

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  • ept AI
    Chief Executive Officer
    ept AI
    Jul 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)
    ept AI is turbocharging every piece of the customer journey -- marketing, sales, product management, and support -- for B2B tech product companies. A sales engineer in every salesperson's pocket, and a customer support engineer in every customer's desktop.
  • Infineon Technologies
    Vice President Software & Ecosystem
    Infineon Technologies
    Apr 2020 - Aug 2024 (4 years 5 months)
    Leading a team to build great products and partnerships for the IoT.
  • Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Vice President Software Product & Ecosystem
    Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Dec 2019 - Apr 2020 (5 months)
    Leading a team to build software for the IoT.
  • Rainforest Connection
    Board Member
    Rainforest Connection
    Nov 2019 - Aug 2024 (4 years 10 months)
    Helping save the rainforest and the climate with an amazing team and IoT technology.
  • Cirrent
    CEO
    Cirrent
    Jan 2014 - Aug 2024 (10 years 8 months)
    Making the internet of things easy for mainstream consumers and helping companies make great products!
  • Trilliant
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Trilliant
    Aug 2011 - Dec 2014 (3 years 5 months)
    Working with utilities around the world to adopt advanced smart grid techology to improve service, reduce costs, and lay the groundwork for energy efficiency and decarbonization.
  • Trilliant Networks
    Senior Vice President, Network Products
    Trilliant Networks
    Nov 2007 - Aug 2011 (3 years 10 months)
    Building smart grid hardware products and enterprise software using cellular and wireless mesh communications to let utilities remotely monitor and manage electric meters and electricity grid assets.
  • Dust Networks
    Vice President Marketing, Sales, Business Development, and co-founder
    Dust Networks
    Jun 2002 - Aug 2007 (5 years 3 months)
    Dust Networks, the early leader in the internet of things, provides ultra low-power, highly reliable products to OEMs in the industrial automation, building automation and defense markets. The business was acquired by Linear Technologies in 2011.

    I founded the Dust Networks in 2002 with Kris Pister, professor at UC Berkeley, and led the sales, marketing, and business development efforts through two rounds of venture funding. During this time I helped to build the executive team to bring Dust to sustainability. My domain included responsible for overall business and product strategy, and the strategy we built resulted in Dust achieving the clear #1 market position, standards that greatly reduced the cost of sales, and rapidly gr
  • Onix
    Engineering Manager
    Onix
    Jan 1999 - Dec 2002 (4 years)
    Onix Microsystems focused on providing large-scale fiber-optic switches for the telecom industry, selling core switching elements based on micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technologies to enable fully optical networking.

    Brought in to commercialize a fiber-optic switching system for core-networking applications based on micromirror technology patented at UC Berkeley.
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    Engineering lead
    PINNACLE TECHNOLOGIES
    Jan 1992 - Dec 1996 (5 years)
    Pinnacle Technologies is a company offering hydraulic fracture mapping products and services for the oil and gas industry. The company offers hydraulic fracture mapping services to exploration and production companies using their proprietary distributed sensor network hardware and software analysis systems.

    Brought in as 4th employee – originally tasked with helping with the service offering. In first year developed new hardware and software systems that allowed the business to rapidly grow to become the leader in the field. After 3 years, managed the entire hydraulic fracture mapping service business, including sales, marketing, engineering, and operations. The business was acquired by Carbo Ceramics in 2000.
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  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    PhD, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    Jan 1996 - Dec 2000 (5 years)
    Specialized in Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), working for Professor Richard Muller. Initiated multi-student fabrication runs to accelerate research efforts. Teaching assistant for Kris Pister's MEMS course. Part of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC).
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    MS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    Jan 1996 - Dec 1998 (3 years)
    Specializing in semiconductor devices. Highest score on semiconductor devices preliminary exam in August 1997, even after mechanical engineering undergraduate degree.
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    BS, Mechanical Engineering
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    Jan 1989 - Dec 1993 (5 years)
    Graduated with high honors.
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