Management

Scott Bibaud

President and Chief Executive Officer, Board Director

Scott Bibaud has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors since October 2015. Mr. Bibaud has been active in the semiconductor industry for over 30 years. He has successfully built a number of businesses in his career which grew to generate over $1 Billion in revenue at some of the world’s largest semiconductor companies. Most recently he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Altera’s Communications and Broadcast Division. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Mobile Platforms Group at Broadcom. Mr. Bibaud holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Robert Mears

Chief Technology Officer, Founder

Robert Mears is a recognized pioneer and leading expert in photonics and nano-scale material engineering with more than 30 years’ experience. In the mid-1980’s, Dr. Mears invented and was first to demonstrate the Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA), a transformative technology for broadband networks. In 2001 Dr. Mears founded Nanovis LLC (the original predecessor company to Atomera) to leverage his insights into the nano-scale engineering of new materials. Dr. Mears has authored or co-authored approximately 250 publications and patents and is an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, England. Dr. Mears holds B.A and M.A. degrees in Physics from University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Southampton.

Frank Laurencio

Chief Financial Officer

Frank Laurencio has over 20 years of experience in senior finance positions in high-growth technology companies ranging from networking, storage, SaaS and hardware distribution. Before joining Atomera in February 2016, Mr. Laurencio held CFO roles at Sycomp, Orbis Global (now part of Infor), Bubbly and OnStor (now part of LSI/Avago). Earlier in his career, Mr. Laurencio worked as a corporate and securities attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell and in technology investment banking at Lehman Brothers. He holds an A.B., Classics from Princeton University and a J.D. from New York University.

Hideki Takeuchi

Vice President of Engineering

Hideki Takeuchi has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Mr. Takeuchi joined Mears Technologies (the predecessor company to Atomera) in 2008 and became VP of Engineering in 2022. At Atomera he has managed numerous customer projects and internal R&D projects for advanced CMOS, analog, low-voltage power switch, and RF switch products. Prior to Atomera, Mr. Takeuchi was a project manager for customer device development projects at ATDF/SEMATECH, and before that was a research associate in the semiconductor device group at UC Berkeley, where he was a member of the original FinFET development team as well as working on high-k/metal gate stack engineering, ultra-shallow junction process, trap-based non-volatile memories, and RF-MEMS projects. Prior to this he was a senior researcher for DRAM product development at Nippon Steel. Mr. Takeuchi received B.E and M.E. degrees from The University of Tokyo and has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and over 30 U.S. patents.

Nishant Sinha

Vice President of Marketing & Strategy

Mr. Sinha brings 27+ years of semiconductor experience from both sides of the fab: first as a chipmaker, then with the equipment makers that supply the fabs. At Micron Technology, he led advanced process and integration R&D, including the first Intel–Micron 3D NAND joint development program. He went on to lead strategy, business development and marketing at Lam Research and Applied Materials. A named inventor on 111 issued U.S. patents and author of six peer-reviewed journal papers, he holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MS in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University, where he was a fellowship recipient, and an undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur.

Wei Na

Vice President of Sales

Wei Na is Vice President of Sales at Atomera, leading worldwide licensing of the company’s Mears Silicon Technology (MST). He brings 30 years of semiconductor experience, including two decades building and leading global IP licensing businesses. Before joining Atomera in 2025, Mr. Na was Head of Worldwide IP Licensing at SiFive, securing RISC-V licenses with customers across North America, EMEA, and Asia. Earlier, he was a founding member of Cypress Semiconductor’s IP Business Unit and led worldwide IP licensing at Cypress and later at Infineon Technologies, growing annual licensing revenue from zero to tens of millions of dollars. Mr. Na began his career as an R&D engineer at NEC and SanDisk. He holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Fudan University and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, respectively.