Phillip LoPresti,
Chief Executive Officer & President

Prior to joining Kenet in 2006, Mr. LoPresti was associate vice president and general manager of the Custom LSI Solutions strategic business unit at NEC Electronics America, where he successfully expanded the company’s ASIC technology business in North America. Mr. LoPresti joined NEC in 1984 as an engineer in the company’s design center and later was promoted to manager. Subsequently he was general manager and then business operations manager of the system LSI organization, where he oversaw all system LSI products and sales. Earlier in his career, Mr. LoPresti was employed by RCA Automated Systems and also was an adjunct professor of electronics at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He holds bachelor’s and master’s of science degrees in electrical engineering from Boston University.