Sensors Expo 2016

Roger Grace
Founder & President
Roger Grace Associates


Roger H. Grace is president of Roger Grace Associates (RGA), a marketing consulting firm specializing in high technology, which he founded in 1982 in San Francisco, California. His background includes over 40 years in analog circuit design engineering, manufacturing engineering, application engineering, project management, product marketing, and technology consulting. Mr. Grace has 15 years of experience as a microwave/R.F. design and project engineer at Avco Missile Systems, Wilmington Massachusetts; Raytheon Company in Sudbury Massachusetts and Goleta California and Ford Aerospace and Communications in Palo Alto, California. His responsibilities included the design, development and test of microwave antenna and microwave components and systems for military, defense and commercial communications applications. He was a senior product marketing engineer for three years at Avantek (now Hewlett Packard) in Santa Clara, California. His duties included the sales and marketing of the company’s microwave semiconductors, microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs), amplifiers and oscillators into the military communications market. He was employed at Foxboro I.C.T., a pioneer in MEMS pressure sensors, as its marketing manager for three years. He was responsible for developing and executing an integrated marketing communications (MARCOM) program and conducting market research into emerging application areas for the company’s existing products in addition to creating new products. Here he was instrumental in helping create the disposable blood pressure transducer which is currently one of the largest applications of MEMS devices at over 30 million units per year. Mr. Grace has specialized in sensors for over 30 years with a focus on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology and is widely acknowledged internationally as one of the leaders and pioneers of this industry. He has authored over 60 technical papers; organized, chaired and spoken at numerous inter

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