Dr. Solon J. Spiegel – Solon is the founder and CEO of RIO SYSTEMS LTD. Prior of establishing RIO SYSTEMS, LTD, Solon served as the Head of Radio System Engineering at u-blox AG, Switzerland, managing radio R&D activities and the RF group for development of the GPS receiver. He served between 2000 and 2001 as senior research member at Intel (former DSPC), Israel, leading projects in the area of multi-standard wireless transceivers. In 1999, he was with IBM research lab, Israel, involved in the design of a CMOS pipelined analog to digital converter. From 1995 to 1999, he served as research member at RAFAEL - The Israel Armament Development Authority, involved in the development of radar systems, microwave IC design and verification, packaging and RFMEM technology. Between 1992 and 1995 he was with the Technion, Israel and from 1992 to 1995 with the Military Institute of Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He started its professional carrier at EMBRATEL (Brazilian Telecommunication Company) in 1984 where he worked until 1990 in data networks and protocols.  His technical areas of expertise include radio architecture, wireless transceivers and communication standards, GPS, radio frequency power amplifiers, mixed-signal, RFIC and microwave design and verification and, semiconductor device and RFMEM technologies. Solon has led several industry projects consulted to numerous companies in the area of analog, mixed-signal and RF.

Dr. Spiegel holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion, Israel, B.Sc. degree from the University Gama Filho, Brazil and Executive MBA in Management of Technology from the Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Switzerland. He authored and co-authored over 25 publications in premium refereed journals and conferences and holds 5 patents. He is senior member of IEEE. Dr. Spiegel lectures at Bar-Ilan and Tel Aviv Universities.