Joshua J. Ziff - President, CEO, Director and Co-founder.
Prior to founding Bridge, Mr. Ziff was Vice President, Business
Development for Medrad, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based manufacturer of medical
equipment and disposables sold to hospitals worldwide. Mr. Ziff was
responsible for Medrad's mergers and acquisitions program, business
expansion, and was heavily involved with strategy development. He
directed Medrad's Imaging Systems and MR Products business units,
and the strategic planning and marketing research departments. He
was responsible for the $6.2 million sale of Medrad's guidewire
business and successfully negotiated many key business relationships
including distributorship agreements, purchasing agreements, product
development agreements, asset purchase agreements, and strategic
partnerships.
Mr. Ziff's experience includes eleven years in the nuclear
power industry. He worked on the safety and licensing of high
temperature gas-cooled reactors for General Atomic Company in
San Diego from 1974 to 1976. At Westinghouse Hanford Company
from 1976 to 1982, he worked on the Fast Flux Test Facility, a
sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor outside of Richland, Washington.
His responsibilities there included reactor system engineering,
plant safety issue resolution, and Manager for FFTF Plant Utilization.
In Pittsburgh from 1982 through 1984, Mr. Ziff worked for Westinghouse
Electric Corporation's Water Reactor Division as a project engineer
responsible for generating business from utilities that did not have
Westinghouse reactors and from non-utility customers. Following an
educational leave of absence from 1984 to 1986, Mr. Ziff returned to
Westinghouse's Technology Enterprise Division where he contributed to
business diversification planning and implementation.
Mr. Ziff received
B.S. in Engineering and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering degrees from
Purdue University where he was elected to Tau Beta Pi. He also earned a
M.S. in Industrial Administration (MBA) with Distinction from
Carnegie Mellon University. He holds two US patents.
Joseph Acquaviva – Vice President of Engineering.
Prior to joining Bridge Semiconductor, Mr. Acquaviva was a member of the
technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, which became Lucent Technologies and
then Agere Systems. While at Bell Labs, he was the principle designer on six
integrated circuits (ICs) which utilized state of the art sub micron CMOS
and high performance complementary bipolar processing. Additionally, he
managed a multi-disciplinary team of engineers on the design of several
telecommunication ICs. At Texas Instruments, Joe designed read channel
ICs for the disc drive industry and speech synthesis ICs for the consumer
market.
Mr. Acquaviva received his BSEE from Penn State University and a MS Degree
in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Dallas.