Tommaso Cilento is Senior Manager of the Cross-Functional Solutions team in the TCAD Consulting and Engineering Group at Synopsys Switzerland LLC, and has 19 years of experience in the high-tech semiconductor industry, spanning research, engineering, and consulting. He holds a B.Sc. EE degree from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences (1995), and a M.Sc. degree in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – ETH (2000).
Brian Jones is an independent EMC Consultant, specializing in compliance with European legislation and standards. He is also secretary to the CENELEC EMC committee TC210, but is writing here in a personal capacity, and his views do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization.
Dave Long is the CEO and founder of Staticworx, Inc., a leading provider of flooring solutions for static-free environments. He has 30-plus years of industry experience and combines his comprehensive technical knowledge of electrostatics and concrete substrate testing with a practical understanding of how materials perform in real-world environments.
Ray Balolong is a program manager at Intertek, where he focuses on assurance, testing, inspection and certification solutions for IoT and software. He has a decade of experience in software assurance testing and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Management Information Systems, from California Polytechnic State University.
Nicholas Abbondante serves as chief EMC engineer at Intertek. In more than 18 years with the company, he has been involved in testing a wide range of radio and electronic equipment to EMC requirements for regulatory domains around the world, specializing in transmitters. He is a member of the TCB Council and participates in multiple ANSI C63 radio standards writing committees and holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).