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Mr. Saums brings 27 years of practical research market development product development and product management experience in electronics thermal management associated with components systems and materials. He is the founder of a business development and strategy-consulting firm called DS&A (dsa-thermal.com) that focuses on advanced thermal materials components and systems for electronic systems and semiconductor packaging. His client firms are Fortune 50 electronics manufacturing companies advanced materials manufacturers and component manufacturers in North America Europe and Japan.
From 1978 - 1997 he was with Wakefield Engineering (formerly EG&G) where he held a range of program management and marketing related roles including considerable product development for microprocessor and ASIC markets. After Wakefield he has held several senior marketing roles. At Henkel Loctite (formerly Power Devices) he was Director Marketing. He later served as VP Marketing for CPS Technologies a manufacturer of processor and ASIC lids and other extremely high thermal conductivity materials and composites for high flux density semiconductor package components. He graduated from Clarkson University with a BS Industrial Management and Industrial Economics in 1977 and a year later received his MBA. He also did post-graduate work at Union College (1978-81). | 