About Us
Officer Profiles
Tom Steipp - President & Chief Executive Officer
Thomas Steipp is a senior executive with a 30 year track record of leading and transforming global technology companies. He is a proven, results-oriented leader with a history of successfully optimizing teams, operations and processes to maximize earnings and build shareholder value.
As President and Chief Executive Officer of Symmetricom, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYMM) from 1998 through 2009, Mr. Steipp led this 1100-employee public corporation through a strategic transformation from a technology holding company model into an advanced telecommunications hardware centered business.
Prior to Symmetricom, Mr. Steipp was the Vice President and General Manager of Broadband Data Networks at Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., a leading manufacturer of cable television, communications and broadband equipment.
Mr. Steipp graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and earned a M.B.A. from Purdue University.
Ricardo Salas - Executive Vice President & Director
Prior to his tenure with Liquidmetal Technologies, Mr. Salas served as Chief Executive Officer of iLIANT Corporation, an information technology and outsourcing service firm in the health care industry.
He currently serves as a director of VillageEDOCS, a technology company providing software-as-a-service to the financial services, healthcare and various industries, a director with the MED 3000Group, and a director of the public company CyberDefender Corporation (CYDE).
Mr. Salas received a B.A. degree in Economics from Harvard College.
Tony Chung - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Chung most recently served as CFO at BETEK Corporation, a real estate and investment subsidiary of SK Engineering and Construction, and as CFO of Solarcity, a company providing advanced solar technology and installation services.
Mr. Chung is a Certified Public Accountant and served eight years at KPMG as an Audit and Consulting Manager for several large multinational companies.
He received his B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Chung is also an Attorney at Law and received his J.D. degree from Pacific Coast University School of Law.