Alex Bugeja is a technical consultant to the semiconductor industry and has worked for
a number of fabless IC companies, venture capital firms investing in semiconductor
companies, and private equity funds active in this sector. Prior to his consulting
work, he also founded Engim, a wireless LAN chipset company based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Bugeja received the BEng degree from the University of Malta, the SM degree from
Harvard University, and the PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
all in Electrical Engineering. Prior to starting Engim, he worked for Texas Instruments in
Dallas, Texas, developing mixed-signal integrated circuits for demanding applications in 3G
cellular communications. He has published several papers regarding high performance digital,
analog, and mixed-signal IC design and is the holder of 10 US patents.