Speaker
Geir Kjosavik
Biography
Geir Kjosavik is Product Director for Power Management ICs (PMICs) at Nordic Semiconductor, where he has led the PMIC product line since 2021, and co-inventor of two Nordic patents. He began as an analog and digital circuit designer, then joined Atmel in 1996 and architected the AT90S1200 AVR microcontroller. After Philips Semiconductors and Xilinx, he returned to Atmel to co-architect the peripheral touch controller (PTC), then moved to Microchip through its 2016 acquisition of Atmel. He holds a master’s degree in electronic engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (now NTNU) and lives in Trondheim.