Evan Grund

Evan Grund is the founder of Grund Technical Solutions (GTS), a Silicon Valley corporation specializing in ESD test equipment. Formerly, he managed engineering groups for semiconductor equipment companies including KLA-Tencor, Lam Research, and was a founder of Novellus Systems. He served as vice president of Oryx Instruments and site manager for Thermo Fisher Scientific, working on ESD testers for both companies. Evan and his GTS colleagues introduced 2-pin HBM automated testing. Evan has over ten patents issued and pending patents on CDM and HBM testers. He has been a frequent presenter at ESD forums, workshops and symposia. Evan is a lifetime member of EOS/ESD Association (ESDA) and is active in their standards working groups. Evan taught college level electronics and programming and is an ESDA instructor for TLP. He holds a BS EECS from UC Berkeley and MSEE from Stanford.