About Teklicon - Principals

Chris Jeffers - President Chris has over 25 years of experience in high technology with Xerox, Atari and Teklicon. He has been with Teklicon since 1986; in his earlier positions with the company, he was responsible for building the company's registry of experts and for management of engineering projects on behalf of industry clients. Previously, Chris served in various research and management capacities at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) throughout the 1970s. In 1982, he joined Atari, Inc., as a key executive in its corporate research organization, and subsequently became Vice President/Product Development, responsible for the company's consumer hardware product line. From 1964 to 1970, prior to his career in the high-technology industry, Chris served in the Peace Corps, including three years as founder and director of a national high school science curriculum development program in Nepal. He received his B.A. in chemistry in 1964 from the University of Colorado.

Ted Hoff - Chief Technologist Ted has over 30 years experience in semiconductor technology and computer systems research with Stanford University, Intel, Atari and Teklicon. After receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University, he performed post-doctoral research on adaptive systems at the university. In 1968 he joined Intel as one of its first dozen employees and established an outstanding record of technological achievement. He was the first employee to hold the title of Intel Fellow, the company's highest technical rank. Ted holds 16 patents. He is best known for his invention of the microprocessor, an achievement for which he has been honored by the Smithsonian Institution and recognized throughout the international scientific community. He has received the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal, the IEEE's Cledo Brunetti Award and its Centennial Medal, and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Davies Medal. Ted is a fellow of the IEEE, and he is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Chi. He received his BEE degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1958, and his MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1959 and 1962, respectively.

Lee Egherman - Director, Project Operations Lee has over 30 years of experience in the electronics and computer-related industries. He serves as Director of Operations for clients in the Western Region. Lee was founder and CEO of Lee/Allan Associates, Inc., the first manufacturerâs representative and distribution company in California specializing in AC power line conditioning equipment. He was an early contributor to the body of knowledge about the ill effects of electrical power facilities on computer systems and other sensitive equipment. He has linear circuit design experience and is considered an authority on common-mode noise problems. He also has extensive experience in the sales and marketing of a wide variety of electronics products ranging from sophisticated test equipment for the aerospace industry to high performance sockets for integrated circuit test equipment. Lee has also served as a sales/marketing and management consultant to several Silicon Valley companies. He has a BSEE from Northwestern University and a MSEE from Stanford University, and he is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and Pi Mu Epsilon.

Leon Hamner Leon has over 30 years of experience in the electronics industry, principally in the areas of instrumentation, computer and semiconductor technology. He has extensive experience both as an executive and an entrepreneur in high technology sales and marketing. As founder and CEO of Personal Computing Tools, Leon was a pioneer in providing hardware and software for engineers and scientists using the IBM personal computer. This venture-capital backed direct response marketing company was sold to a public corporation. Leon was a founding partner and VP of Ward/Davis Associates, a sales representative firm representing high technology instrumentation manufacturers, and he was Director of Sales and Marketing for Solitec Wafer Processing, a semiconductor processing equipment company. Leon holds a BSEE degree from California State University at Los Angeles. He served in the United States Marine Corps.