Mark Brandemuehl

Mark Brandemuehl has a successful track record of marketing and sales roles at leading semiconductor capital equipment and semiconductor software companies, including start-ups and large public companies.  In addition to his role as Advisor to yieldWerx, he is an advisor for Scanimetrics, Inc., an early stage company developing technology and products for non-contact testing of wafers.

Mr. Brandemuehl’s most recent company was FormFactor, Inc. where he was Vice President of Marketing, joining the company in 1998 and driving >50% annual compound annual growth, gaining FormFactor the position of revenue leader in the semiconductor wafer probe market.  FormFactor successfully went public in June, 2003.  Prior to this, Mr. Brandemuehl was Director of Marketing for yield management software products at at KLA-Tencor, the leading provider of semiconductor process yield management tools.  As Director of Sales at Tyecin Systems, a start-up provider of semiconductor fab and test capacity planning software tools, Mr. Brandemuehl was successful in establishing sales at all of the major semiconductor manufacturers in his Eastern United States region.  Tyecin Systems was acquired by Manugistics in 1998.  Mr. Brandemuehl has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BSEE from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mazhar Hussain

Mazhar Hussain is an Advisor to yieldWerx, and he has been an executive leader for over 16 years, with experiences in the entire value chain of semiconductor/high-tech industry

He was with Texas Instrument for 11 years, including six years in Asia & Europe. He has developed and managed over $350 Million revenue business in Motorola, and developed semiconductor, wireless, networking and broadband communications at Motorola, Texas Instruments, Terayon Communication Systems, and AMD in the last several years.

He has also been instrumental in developing TI's semiconductor foundry strategy and pioneered outsourcing Integrated Circuit manufacturing at Taiwanese and Korean semiconductor foundries including TSMC, UMC and Chartered.

His experiences in leading and improving wafer fabrication test and production cost by
benchmarking worldwide foundries and improving test solutions make his input on the advisory board extremely valuable.

Mazhar has an MBA in International Management from UT Austin, a BSEE, Electrical Engineering 1988 from UT Arlington.