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In this issue we would like to introduce you to Trifon Liakopoulos and Ralph Taylor who are both serving their first term.
Trifon co-founded Enpirion (now part of Intel) as a spinout from Bell Labs, a world leader company in power integration that successfully commercialized the world's first Power System on Chip (PwrSoC) products for consumer and industrial markets. Trifon serves on the Board of Directors and as the Vice President of PSMA, is member of the PwrSoC international workshop steering committee, serves as board member of other technology startup companies and served on the board of trustees of University of Ioannina. He received his PhD degree in microfabrication engineering (MEMS) and an MS in Physics from University of Cincinnati. His accomplishments include numerous publications, conference talks and over 20 patents. Provided by Trifon Liakopoulos, Ph.D., President, CEO & co-Founder Enachip inc.  Ralph Taylor has worked in the automotive industry for the last 41 years. His career began at General Motors Delco Electronics, then Delphi Electronics & Safety, and lastly Delphi Technologies (He did not change companies, the companies changed their name). During his first 10 years of work, he was involved with the designs, both hardware and software, of high volume manufacturing equipment and later controller and software designs for advanced body and chassis applications. For the last 31 years he was involved in the development of advanced power electronics applications. Working as part of a team in the electrification group, Ralph helped to developed power electronics for electric drive vehicles (EDVs), including battery management systems, system controllers that convert user inputs to torque commands, inverters for various EDVs including electric scooters, autos, heavy-duty trucks and off-road construction equipment. In addition, he helped to develop concepts for novel packaging of power devices. The design of most interest was a doubled sided cooled discrete power package which allowed Delphi to extract more heat per unit area than any of the competition at the time. This allowed for less silicon, smaller inverter packages and lower cost design of discrete power stages for EDV inverters. Ralph has been the principal investigator, (PI), on several, successful DOE programs dealing with high temperature inverter designs and various dielectrics to be used to replace existing polypropylene capacitors within vehicle power electronics inverters. The goal is always the same for the DOE programs; lower the cost, make it smaller, improve the reliability and get it commercialized. Ralph currently serves as a director of the Power Sources Manufactures Association (PSMA) as well as the Co-Chair of the Transportation Electronics Committee, involved with organizing session(s) on Transportation Electronics for the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC). He has 14 patents, with 2 more in process, and one defensive publication. He has been awarded the Boss Kettering Award as well as being admitted into the Delphi Innovation Hall of Fame. Since retiring from Delphi, Ralph recently started a company, RST PEConsulting, LLC. Provided by Ralph Taylor, Principal, RST PEConsulting, LLC |
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our members of the Board of Directors are elected at the PSMA Annual Meeting held every year during the APEC conference. Each Director serves a three year term and is eligible to be reelected for one additional term.