Adam is a High Technology CEO, serial entrepreneur, and investor.

Since May 2019, Adam serves as CEO at Germany-based cynora GmbH, a company innovating advanced OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) materials (https://cynora.com). CYNORA is a leading pioneer of novel TADF (Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence)-based blue and green emitter solutions that aim to improve the power efficiency and color contrast of OLED displays. He is the founding board chairman and a lead investor of Paradromics (https://paradromics.com), a startup company developing next-generation neural interface technology.

Using this technology, Paradromics will dramatically increase the precision of treatments such as Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s disease and other neurological diseases, leading to better symptom relief with lower side effects. This technology will also provide the necessary data throughput for a new wave of brain-controlled prosthetics that can be used to help people with paralysis.

Prior, Adam was the Chairman and CEO of PlasmaSi. A technology startup company based in Fremont, CA. PlasmaSi enables the encapsulation of organic thin-films by depositing ultra-thin and flexible barrier films through its proprietary technology. These thin-films are particularly well suited for next-generation OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display products, including mobile phones, hand-held devices, tablets, wearables, and large screen HDTV.

In April of 2015, PlasmaSi was successfully acquired by AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIX; NASDAQ: AIXG), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of deposition systems for the semiconductor industry. Prior to his role at PlasmaSi, Adam was the Chief Executive Officer of Memoir Systems, a venture-backed memory IP company. Cisco successfully acquired memoir Systems in October 2014.

Adam co-founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of iCON Communications.

iCON Communications is a premier broadband Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Armenia utilizing state of the art WiMAX technology. He also served as the Chairman of the Board (until March 2008) and Chief Executive Officer (until March 2007) of Virage Logic.

He co-founded this company in 1996 and subsequently took it public on NASDAQ (VIRL.) in August 2000. Adam has numerous inventions and has 15 patents granted in the area of microchip design and memory. Moreover, he is the author and co-author of over 15 technical publications in leading trade journals.

Adam holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley (1983), a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University (1992), and an Executive MBA from Stanford University (2006).