Leadership
Ali Foughi
CEO
Ali Foughi is a Silicon Valley executive with over thirty years of experience in semiconductors, MEMS sensors and system design. Most recently, Ali Foughi was the Co-Founder and CEO of NextInput, Inc., a category leader supplying innovative MEMS-based force sensing solutions for a broad range of Human Machine Interface (“HMI”) applications, acquired by Qorvo, Inc. in 2021. Previously, Mr. Foughi served as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at InvenSense, Inc. (TDK) and Vice President & General Manager of multiple mixed-signal business units at Maxim Integrated (ADI) with revenues of $300M.
David Su, Ph.D.
Chief R&D Officer
David brings to Atmosic over 30 years of engineering expertise with an extensive wireless background, as his past teams’ radio designs have brought billions of successful devices to market. He was on the early engineering team at Atheros, VP Analog/RF Engineering, and VP Engineering with Qualcomm following the 2011 acquisition of Atheros. David earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and has been a Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. David is an IEEE Fellow.
Masoud Zargari, Ph.D.
COO
Masoud, an expert in wireless engineering for networking, mobile and computing devices, is focused on the execution of Atmosic’s vision to break the power barrier for wireless IoT. A member of the founding Atheros engineering team, Masoud was Sr. Director Engineering at Atheros and at Qualcomm following the acquisition. Masoud has a Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and was a Consulting Assistant Professor for Stanford. Masoud is an IEEE Fellow.
