Management

Everyone at ASSET focuses on serving customers. These are the people that lead our efforts to stay that way.

Glenn Woppman - President, CEO and Chairman of the Board

Glenn serves customers by making sure that everyone at ASSET continually strives to increase customer satisfaction. He is in charge of new initiatives, and stays close to the market by spending the majority of his time with customers, prospects, and the people working closest with them. Glenn led the ASSET business at Texas Instruments before spinning ASSET out of TI in 1995. The original ASSET focus was boundary scan test and Glenn led the company through its expansion and transition to a leader in embedded instrumentation. He holds an MBA from SMU and a BSIE from the University of South Florida.
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Tim Caffee - Vice President Design Validation

Tim Caffee obtained dual degrees, B.S degree in Mathematics and a B.S degree in Computer Science, at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. He is one of the founders at ASSET InterTech, Inc. He has spent the last 16 years working with ASSET’s boundary-scan tools based on IEEE 1149.1 technology. His current focus is to expand ASSET’s core products to add support for silicon instruments to be used in the area of Design Validation. Prior to ASSET, he spent several years at Texas Instruments and held numerous positions in the Defense Group. His office is located in San Jose, California.
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Alan Sguigna - Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Mr. Sguigna has more than 20 years of experience in senior-level general management, marketing, engineering, sales, manufacturing, finance and customer service positions. Before joining ASSET, he worked in the telecom industry. He has had profit and loss responsibility for a $150 million division of Spirent Communications, a supplier of test products and services. Prior to his tenure with Spirent, Mr. Sguigna also served in business development positions with Nortel Networks, overseeing the growth of its voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) products.
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Gerry Morgan - Vice President, Product Development

Gerry serves customers by bringing his many years of hardware and software development expertise to help us accelerate our product development. Gerry worked at Fairchild Semiconductor; for 19 years at test equipment companies, including GenRad® where he led development projects (including the Encompass software that runs on the GENEVA Test System); and recently at Brooks Automation. He holds an MBA from Northeastern University, and a BS and ME in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maine.
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Adam Ley - Chief Technologist

Adam serves customers by ensuring that our application support activity completes the delivery of boundary-scan solutions. Some of you may know Adam since he has been involved with boundary scan since 1991. Adam was the key technical leader in Texas Instruments Logic Products division to drive boundary-scan bus interface and scan support products. Adam is a member of the IEEE 1149.1 working group and is the Standard Technical Editor for the group. He holds a BSEE from Oklahoma State University.
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Arden Bjerkeli - Director of Corporate Applications Support

As Director of Corporate Applications Support, Arden provides the staffing, processes, tools and infrastructure that connect customers to expert support, services, and training they may need to maximize success using ScanWorks products. Arden's entire career has been dedicated to the test engineering profession. Prior to joining ASSET, Arden held director, manager, and engineering positions in the computer manufacturing industry, including Compaq, Zaisan and Telxon. Arden holds a BSEET in Computer Architecture from the University of Houston, and studied business at the University of Texas.
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Al Crouch - Chief Technologist - Core Instruments

Al Crouch, Chief Technologist – Core Instruments – at ASSET InterTech, is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was formerly chief scientist and director of research and development at Inovys Corp. of Pleasanton, Calif., and Verigy Ltd. of Cupertino, Calif. Al has served as the vice chairman of the IEEE P1687 IJTAG working group that is developing the IJTAG standard and has contributed significantly to the hardware architecture definition. Over the last 20 years, he has accumulated vast experience in chip design-for-test at both Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola) and Texas Instruments. Al has filed for more than 30 patents and been granted 15.
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Brent Troxel - Director - Financial Control, Analysis & Operations

Brent Troxel brings extensive financial and management experience to ASSET having spent over 20 years with GTE and Verizon Communications in positions of increasing responsibility. Before joining ASSET, Brent worked as the Controller for a small publicly traded company responsible for their accounting and reporting requirements. Brent is a CPA and holds a BS in Business from Indiana University and an MBA from the University of Dallas.
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Board of Directors

Board of Directors The ASSET Board includes Glenn Woppman and the following outside directors.

Dr. Bill Drobish

Bill serves ASSET shareholders by ensuring that ASSET remains financially stable through fast and profitable growth. He has done this as a founder of his own company (Silicon Systems Inc., now a division of Texas Instruments), and as a Board member at other successful high-tech companies (both public and private). Bill received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Mr. Anthony J. LeVecchio

Mr. LeVecchio is the president and owner of The James Group, Inc., a business support and development company in Dallas. At various times during his career, Mr. LeVecchio has acted as both an interim chief financial officer and as a financial oversight executive to assist companies with financial planning, cash management, internal controls, strategic and operating plans, negotiated settlements and stock structures. He has served as CFO of VHA Southwest and Phillips Information Systems. He also worked for Exxon Office Systems and Xerox Corporation. He has a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance from Rollins College.

Mr. Andy Mindlin

Andy serves ASSET shareholders by making sure that we continually improve the way we listen to customers, respond to their concerns and anticipate their needs. Andy does this by drawing on his marketing management experience at Procter & Gamble, and his success helping other high-tech companies market new technologies. Andy graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University with a BA in International Economics.

Mr. Tim Dehne

Tim Dehne has over 21 years of experience in the test, measurement, industrial, embedded and software industries, with increasing levels of executive responsibility from Vice President of Strategic Marketing to Vice President of Marketing to Vice President of Engineering to Senior Vice President of R&D for National Instruments. Dehne has led and managed a broad array of business responsibilities and professional disciplines, from a small $15M private company to a global $824M public corporation with tight budget control, increased profitability, revenue growth, and industry-leading employee satisfaction and retention (named 100 Best Companies for 10 consecutive years).

He has successfully developed marketing and R&D organizations on a global basis and has spearheaded the creation of significant global partner and supplier relations programs. He has also led eleven company/asset acquisitions.

Dehne holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.