Committees

APEC is managed, governed, and operated by three groups: the APEC Planning Committee, the APEC Steering Committee, and a hired professional conference management company.

APEC Planning Committee

Each year's APEC is planned and managed by the APEC Planning Committee (aka Conference Committee). This committee is all volunteers. The Planning Committee is responsible for managing the technical content, exposition, social and networking events, registration, catering, and other activities specific to that year's conference.

To provide continuity most committee members serve for multiple years. The General Chair rotates among individuals appointed by each of the sponsors. A person enters the General Chair track by first serving as the Assistant Program Chair, then the Program Chair, and finally as the General Chair. It is also typical that the current year's General Chair is elected as the Chair of the APEC Steering Committee after serving as General Chair.

Professional Conference Management Company

The APEC Planning Committee oversees the operations of the professional conference management company that is hired, generally on a multi-year contract, to provide and manage all of the day to day activities needed to support the conference such as managing the hotels, working the convention center, managing the registration process, and all of the other work needed to support the conference.

APEC Steering Committee

The APEC Steering Committee is responsible for the longer term operation of the conference, such as selecting future conference locations and managing the bidding process when soliciting bids for conference management services. The Steering Committee is also responsible for setting and managing the APEC Operating and the APEC Policies and Procedures.

The APEC Steering committee consists of three representatives from each of the three sponsors. The Steering Committee includes the Past General Chair, the current General Chair, and the Current Program Chair (next in line for the General Chair position).

APEC 2024 Planning Committee

Tim McDonald
Infineon Technologies
2024 General Chair

Tony O'Gorman
PESC, Inc.
Program Chair

Jin Wang
The Ohio State University
Assistant Program Chair

Pradeep Shenoy
Texas Instruments, PELS
Past General Chair

Stephanie Watts Butler
WattsButler, LLC
Plenary Session Chair

DJ Jain
Würth Elektronik eiSos
Plenary Session Co-Chair

Aung Thet Tu
Consultant, PSMA
Seminar Co-Chair

Laszlo Balogh
Texas Instruments
Seminar Co-Chair

Dhaval Dalal
ACP Technologies
Industry Session Co-Chair

Deepak Veereddy
Infineon
Industry Session Co-Chair

David Chen
Power Integrations
Industry Session Co-Chair

Eric Persson
Infineon
AV Systems Chair

John Vigars
Allegro MicroSystems
Exposition Chair, Finance Co-Chair

Van Niemela
ABB
Exposition Co-Chair

Benjamin Benchimol
Wurth Electronics
Exposition Co-Chair

Mark Nelms
Auburn University
Finance Chair

Indumini Ranmuthu
Texas Instruments
Rap Sessions Co-Chair

Ali Khajehoddin
University of Alberta
Rap Sessions Co-Chair

Greg Evans
Welcomm, Inc.
Publicity Co-Chair

Kathy Naraghi
WelComm, Inc.
Publicity Co-Chair

Frank Cirolia
Advance Energy
Social Media Chair

Bob White
Embedded Power Labs
Web Chair

Sonia Soin

Guest Hospitality Co-Chair

Madeline White

Guest Hospitality Co-Chair

Harish Krishnamoorthy
University of Houston
Mobile App Chair

Oliver Trescases
University of Toronto
Grants and Awards Chair

Siamak Abedinpour
Dialog Semiconductor, Inc.,
A Renesas Company
Publications Chair

Alireza Safaee
Apple Inc.
Student Job Fair Chair

David Otten
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MicroMouse Chair


Conference Management

David McKennon
MMS Meetings
Strategic Account Director

Kelly Laurie
MMS Meetings
Sr. Events Director

Katia McKennon
MMS Meetings
Education Director

Caryn Pepper
MMS Meetings
Logistics Manager

Rachel Epstein
MMS Meetings
Marketing Manager

Ed Lonsinger
MMS Meetings
Exhibits Manager

Adam Lewis
MMS Meetings
Director Of Tech Solutions

Tom Wehner
Epapers, LLC
Abstracts Management

APEC Steering Committee

Pradeep Shenoy
Texas Instruments
2024 Steering Committee Chair, 2023 General Chair
Representing PELS

Tim McDonald
Infineon
2024 General Chair
Representing PSMA

Tony O'Gorman
PESC, Inc.
2024 Program Chair
Representing IAS

Omer C. Onar
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2022 General Chair
Representing IAS

Conor Quinn
Advanced Energy
APEC 2021 General Chair
Representing PSMA

José A. Cobos
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2020 General Chair
Representing PELS

Ernie Parker
Crane Aerospace & Electronics
2019 General Chair
Representing IAS

Eric Persson
Infineon
2018 General Chair
Representing PSMA

Jonathan Kimball
Missouri University of Science & Technology
2017 General Chair
Representing PELS