Yoshihiko Horio
professor, Tokyo Denki University

Yoshihiko Horio a Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tokyo Denki University.

During April 1992 through March 1994, he was a visiting professor at Center for Telecommunications Research, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.

His current research interests are in the area of mixed analog/digital VISI circuit design, brainware, chaos computation and engineering, nonlinear dynamics, and neural networks.

He was awarded the 3rd Hiroshi Ando Memorial Young Engineer Award in 1990.

In 1991, he received the Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award for the 33rd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

Yoshihiko Horio holds M.E. ('84) and Ph.D. ('87) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.

Shigeko K. Woolfalk
Financial & Operations Manager and Legal Assistant at Law Offices of H. B. Woolfalk & Associates, PC, and the Financial & Operations Manager at Passing Lane Sports Management

Shigeko K. Woolfalk is the Financial & Operations Manager and Legal Assistant at Law Offices of H. B. Woolfalk & Associates, PC, and the Financial & Operations Manager at Passing Lane Sports Management.

From 1983 to 1996, she was a Media Consultant to WNYC telecasting division of WNYC Foundation. From 1978 to 1981, she was with Law Offices of Anderson, Mori & Rabinowitz, Tokyo, Japan as a Foreign Associate Attorney.

Ms. Woolfalk is currently serving on the Board of Trustees of the Frost Valley YMCA and the Advisory Board of the Tokyo-Frost Valley YMCA Partnership. She served various other volunteer positions such as two 2-year terms on the Advisory Council on Cable Television for the Village of Scarsdale 1997-2001; two 2-year terms on the Advisory Council on Human Relations for the Village of Scarsdale 1992-1996; Steering Committee member, Scarsdale Japan Festival 1995; various PTA committee positions at Scarsdale School District, including After School Programs, Cultural Arts, International Families and Safety.

Charles H. Still
Partner, Fullbright & Jeworski L.L.P.

Charles Henry Still is a Senior Partner with Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. As a member of Epoch's Board of Directors, Mr. Still brings to bear his expertise in corporate finance and securities law, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate governance matters.

Mr. Still is a director, and member of the Executive Committee, the Compensation Committee (Chairman) and the Joint Conference Committee (immediate past Chairman), of the St. Luke's Episcopal Health System and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston. He is also a director of the Free Enterprise Institute, an active Houston-based non-profit educational institution.

Ken Suyama
President, Epoch Microelectronics, Inc.

Ken Suyama is the President and co-founder of Epoch Microelectronics, Inc. Prior to founding Epoch, Dr. Suyama served Columbia University as a Research Scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Dr. Suyama's technical interests covers all facets of analog and radio frequency (RF) integrated circuitry including RF integrated circuits, data converters, CAD for switched-capacitor circuits, RF MEMS, etc. While pursuing his doctoral degree at Columbia University, he worked on CAD software called SWITCAP2 for simulation of switched capacitor circuits which is used in many companies and universities. Dr. Suyama has coauthored more than 50 technical journals and international conference papers and holds a few patents and patents-pending.

Dr. Suyama is also President of the Board of Trustees for the Catalyst Foundation, which fosters doctoral level inter-disciplinary university research that incorporates the area of electrical engineering. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE).

Ken Suyama holds both M.S. ('82) and Ph.D. ('89) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 1980.