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Michael Noonen

Director at SES

Mr. Noonen serves as a director of SES. Currently Mr. Noonen is the CEO of Swave Photonics, a fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets holographic chips based on proprietary diffractive photonics technology based in California. He has 25 years of experience leading technology businesses resulting in two IPOs and multiple acquisitions. Mr. Noonen has led turnarounds and advised numerous companies such as Ambiq Micro, SiFive, Silego, Mythic, and Rambus. Previously, from 2019 until 2022, he was the CEO of MixComm, the millimeter wave “Antennas to Algorithms” company based in New Jersey. From 2014 until 2016, he was the Chairman and co-founder of Silicon Catalyst (the World’s 1st semiconductor incubator, EE Times 2015 Start-up of the Year). Prior to joining Silicon Catalyst, he served numerous roles including EVP, Global Products, Design, Sales & Marketing at GlobalFoundries as well as EVP, Worldwide Sales & Marketing at NXP. Mr.Noonen has held executive product line, sales and marketing roles at National Semiconductor, Cisco Systems and 8×8. He started his career at NCR Microelectronics teaching mixed-signal ASIC design. He was elected to the Global Semiconductor Alliance Board of Directors and was Chairman of the Board of Socle in Taiwan (acquired by Foxconn). He holds a BSEE from Colorado State University and in 2012 was named the College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni. He holds multiple patents in the areas of Internet telephony and video communications.