Alissa Fitzgerald

Bio:

Dr. Fitzgerald is founder and CEO of A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, LLC, a MEMS product development company based in Silicon Valley. She has over 30 years of engineering experience in MEMS design, fabrication and product development. Having developed dozens of MEMS devices earlier in her career, she now advises clients on the entire cycle of microelectronic product development, from business and IP strategy to supply chain and manufacturing operations. Prior to founding AMFitzgerald, Dr. Fitzgerald worked in engineering and management positions at various high tech companies. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Fitzgerald is co-author of MEMS Product Development: From Concept to Commercialization, has numerous journal publications, and holds eleven patents. She was a board director for the MEMS Industry Group (MIG) Governing Council from 2008-2014 and for the Transducers Research Foundation from 2016-2024. She contributed to three SEMI Standards for MEMS. In 2013, she was inducted into the MIG Hall of Fame and in 2024, she was awarded Executive of the Year by Sensors Converge. She is currently a board director for the quantum computing company Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI).