Markets Products Support Where to Buy About Us Resources Share Home About Us Board of Directors Board of Directors Tom A. Alberg Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group Tom A. Alberg is a founder and managing director of Madrona Venture Group, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest. He serves on the board of Amazon.com, Impinj, and the national Executive Council of TechNet. In addition, he is the chairman of the Seattle Foundation Investment Committee. Prior to co-founding Madrona, Tom served as president of LIN Broadcasting Corporation, executive vice president of McCaw Cellular Communications, and partner in the Northwest's largest law firm, Perkins Coie, where he was principal counsel for The Boeing Company, Alaska Airlines and a number of early technology companies. He has held chair positions with the Washington State Technology Alliance, the Discovery Institute, and the Pacific Science Center. Tom recently joined forces with celebrated winemaker Mike Januik to build the Novelty Hill Januik winery in nearby Woodinville, WA. He is also one of the principal participants in the development of a new Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Seattle. Tom is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School. Clinton W. Bybee Co-founder and Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners Clinton Bybee is a co-founder and Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners. Mr. Bybee concentrates primarily on advanced materials, electronics, semiconductors, photonics, and infrastructure businesses. Mr. Bybee has helped organize and finance numerous companies including MicroOptical Devices (acquired by EMCORE), Cambrios Technologies, Aveso, Innovalight, Intelligent Reasoning Systems (acquired by Photon Dynamics), Semprius, Nanosys, and Xtera Communications. He is a board member of Impinj, Innovalight, Cambrios Technologies, Xtera Communications, Nitronex and Aveso. Mr. Bybee is an organizing member of the Texas Venture Capital Association and currently serves as its first President. Previously, Mr. Bybee worked with ARCH Development Corporation. He also managed a venture investment fund for the State of Illinois and was a production engineer with Amoco Corporation. Mr. Bybee holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in Engineering from Texas A&M University. William Colleran President and Chief Executive Officer, Impinj, Inc. Dr. Colleran brings more than 20 years of semiconductor-industry experience to Impinj, most recently as Director of Business Development for Broadcom Corporation. Prior to joining Broadcom, he was CEO of Innovent Systems, Inc, which he led from the company's inception through its sale to Broadcom. Dr. Colleran previously worked for Merrill Lynch's Technology Investing Banking Group, focusing on financial transactions and acquisitions in the technology sector. He also has extensive engineering-design experience, both as a consultant for several Fortune 500 companies and as a Senior Staff Engineer for TRW, Inc., where he developed high-performance data converters in silicon bipolar, GaAs HBT and GaAs MESFET processes. Dr. Colleran received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1993, his M.S. from USC in 1985, his B.S. from Notre Dame in 1983, all in Electrical Engineering, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1996. Chris Diorio Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Impinj, Inc. Dr. Chris Diorio is Impinj's Co-Founder and CTO. He also serves as an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, as a co-Chair of the EPCglobal Hardware Action Group, and as project editor for UHF Gen2. He previously served as co-Chair of the MIT Auto-ID Hardware Action Group and as a Project co-Editor for ISO 18000-6. Dr. Diorio received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1997, and has over 20 years of experience in semiconductor and radio engineering. He has published more than 70 journal and conference articles, has 71 issued patents, and has received numerous awards including the 2011 Special Achievement Award from RFID Journal Live!, the IEC 1906 Award for 2011, the 2007 WSA Technology Innovator of the Year award, CMP Technology's 2007 RFID Visionary of the Year award, the 2007 AIM Global Ted Williams Award, the Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovator of the Year Runner-Up, the UW's 2001 Distinguished Teaching Award, and the 1996 IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award. He has also received Packard, Sloan, Presidential, and ONR Young Investigator fellowships. He has worked as a Senior Staff Engineer at TRW, Inc., as a Senior Staff Scientist at American Systems Corporation, and as a Technical Consultant at The Analytic Sciences Corporation. Peter van Oppen Chairman, Impinj Board Peter van Oppen is a partner at Trilogy Partnership, a venture capital and private investment firm in Bellevue, WA. He served as Chairman and CEO of Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) and its predecessor companies from 1989 to 2006. Previously, he worked in medical electronics and as a consultant at Price Waterhouse LLP and Bain & Company in New York, Boston and London. A data storage company, ADIC grew from sales and valuation levels of below $10 million to annual revenue of nearly $500 million and a cash sale price of about $800 million in 2006. He was an initial investor in companies that became Voicestream and Western Wireless (WWCA) and served as a director of related entities at various times between 1992 and the sale of Western Wireless in 2005. In addition to ADIC and Western Wireless, he has served on numerous public company boards including Isilon Systems (ISLN) as well as many private entities including Basketball Club of Seattle LLC (SuperSonics). Rally Marketing and Spectrum Networks. As a public company director, van Oppen has participated in panels related to effective Corporate Governance and was selected as 2007 Corporate Director of the Year by the National Association of Corporate Directors Seattle Northwest Chapter. He also serves as Chair of the Whitman College Board of Trustees and has served as Chair of its Investment Committee. He was formerly an Advisory Board member and director of the Seattle Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants on inactive status and holds a B.A. in political science from Whitman College and a Harvard MBA, where he was a Baker Scholar. Gregory Sessler Chief Operating Officer, Spiration, Inc. Gregory Sessler has served as member of the Impinj board of directors since April 2011 and currently serves as chairman of the audit committee. Since December 2008, Mr. Sessler has served as the chief operating officer of Spiration, Inc., which became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Olympus Corporation of the Americas in July 2010, and has served as the executive vice president and chief financial officer since 2002. Prior to joining Spiration, Mr. Sessler served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Rosetta Inpharmatics from March 2000 until its acquisition by Merck & Co., Inc. in July 2001. From June 2008 to the present, Mr. Sessler has been a director and chairman of the audit committee of Marina Biotech, Inc. He also serves on the executive committee and is a past chairman of the board of directors of the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association. Mr. Sessler received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Syracuse University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Albert Yu Chairman, OneAngstrom LLC Dr. Albert Yu is Chairman of OneAngstrom LLC, and has been active in investing and mentoring high technology companies. Dr. Yu retired from Intel Corporation in late 2002, after almost thirty years with the company. He had been Senior Vice President, member of the Corporate Management Committee and General Manager of the heart of Intel's business: microprocessors, chipsets and software (~$25B) for over sixteen years. Under his leadership, Intel's microprocessors from 386™ to the Pentium® 4 and Pentium M Processors have become the highest volume microchips that power computers and the internet and propelled Intel to be the largest semiconductor company in the world. Prior to Intel, he was with Fairchild R&D Lab, where he conducted research and development of solid-state devices and circuits. Albert received his bachelor's degree from California Institute of Technology and his master's and doctorate degrees from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. Albert serves on the boards of a number of high technology companies, venture capital firms and non-profit organizations. He recently received the "Distinguished Life Time Achievement Award" from CIE-USA in Feb 2006, among many other awards for his outstanding leadership of Intel's microprocessor business. Impinj is the leading provider of UHF RFID solutions that provide Item Intelligence in the retail, pharmaceutical, healthcare, food and beverage, and many other industries. Explore Impinj Markets Products Support Where to Buy About Us Resources Stay Connected CONTACT US © 2002-2014 Impinj, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Trademarks