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Herman Fialkov, a member of the Management Committee, has been an advisor to IET since 1996. He was founder and President of General Transistor Corporation, which he merged with General Instrument Corporation in 1960. There he established the pioneering large-scale integrated circuit division, later spun off as the present Microchip Technology, Inc. Later, as Senior Vice President for Corporate Development, he was instrumental in the acquisition of Jerrold Electronics, placing General Instrument in a leadership position in the emerging cable television market. He is a General Partner of PolyVentures, a Long Island, NY venture firm, that invests in startup and early stage technology ventures. From the 1960s to the present, as a General Partner of Geiger & Fialkov LP, PolyVentures, and as President of Aleph Null Corporation, Mr. Fialkov financed and helped develop many successful companies. He was among the founding investors in Intel and Teledyne. Other successful investments include Xynetics, Inc., which was sold to General Signal, which later spun out its components as Ultratech Stepper, and Electroglas, Inc. He was a founding or early stage investor in Standard Microsystems, Microsemi Corp., EIS International, DSP Group, DSP Communications, and OPAL. He was President and later Chairman of Standard Microsystems during its early growth period. Mr. Fialkov is an engineering graduate of New York University and is a trustee of Polytechnic University. He is a director of several corporations including Globecomm Systems Inc., and Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc. | 