MIPI Alliance announces board leadership appointments
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The MIPI Alliance, an international organisation that develops interface specifications for mobile and mobile-influenced industries, has announced the appointment of Hezi Saar from Synopsys, Inc. (Synopsys) as chair of the MIPI Alliance Board of Directors. Saar, who had served as board treasurer since 2016, assumed the chair role from longtime board member Sanjiv Desai, who stepped down in conjunction with his retirement from Intel Corporation.
Other board transitions include:
- Gaurav Arora, the head of systems architecture, home and health devices at Google LLC, has assumed the vice chair role.
- Thomas Schaeffer, a principal engineer and system architect in Intel’s Client Computing Group, has replaced Desai and assumed the treasurer role.
Saar, who joined the MIPI board as Synopsys’ representative in 2016, has more than 30 years of experience in semiconductors and embedded systems. Saar is an executive director of product management at Synopsys, responsible for the company’s mobile, automotive and consumer IP product lines.
“With nearly a decade of service to the board, Saar brings a wealth of industry and MIPI Alliance insight to lead the organisation as more industries leverage MIPI specifications in their mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), automotive and related designs,” Desai said. “It’s been extremely rewarding to be a part of MIPI’s evolution since its early days, and I am confident the organisation’s leadership and robust technology roadmap will help drive further growth across the entire expanded mobile ecosystem.”
Outgoing chair Desai has played an instrumental role since joining the MIPI board as the Intel representative in 2006, first serving as treasurer, then assuming the vice chair role in 2013 and becoming chair in 2022. During his tenure on the board, MIPI specifications have experienced rapid extensibility into multiple industries including the IoT, automotive and industrial.
“Sanjiv’s leadership, foresight and industry knowledge were pivotal in creating MIPI’s comprehensive portfolio of widely implemented specifications and building the successful organisation that MIPI Alliance is today,” Saar said. “I intend to build on this foundation by advancing MIPI’s core technologies, enhancing member value, and expanding our specifications to support rapidly evolving areas such as machine vision, generative and edge AI, power-efficient architectures, and other technologies shaping the future of mobile, consumer/client, IoT and automotive electronics.”
Other current board directors include: Francis Dell’ova, STMicroelectronics; Baher Haroun, Texas Instruments Incorporated; Kyung Hyun Ko, Samsung Electronics; Thomas Lindenkreuz, Robert Bosch GmbH. and Rick Wietfeldt, Qualcomm Incorporated. Peter Lefkin, the executive director of MIPI Alliance, also serves as secretary on the board as a non-director officer.
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