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Asad M. Madni
Retired President and COO, BEI Technologies Inc
B.S. UCLA Electrical Engineering, 1969
M.S. UCLA Electrical Engineering, 1972

Dr. Asad M. Madni served as President, COO and Director of BEI Technologies Inc. in Sylmar, California, from 1992 until his retirement in 2006. He led the development and commercialization of intelligent micro-sensors and systems for aerospace, military, commercial and transportation industries, including the servo control system for the Hubble Space Telescope's Star Selector System and the revolutionary Quartz MEMS GyroChip technology which is used worldwide for Electronic Stability Control and Rollover Protection in passenger vehicles, thereby saving millions of lives every year.

Prior to BEI he was with Systron Donner Corporation for 18 years in senior technical and executive positions, eventually as Chairman, President & CEO. Here, he made seminal and pioneering contributions in the development of RF & Microwave Systems and Instrumentation which significantly enhanced the Combat Readiness of the US Navy and which provided the DOD the ability ( not possible with prior art ) to simulate more threat representative ECM environments for current and future advanced warfare training. Dr. Madni is currently the Executive Managing Director & Chief Technical Officer of Crocker Capital, a San Francisco based private venture firm specializing in emerging technologies.

He received the A.A.S. degree from RCA Institutes, B.S. and M.S. degrees from UCLA and the Ph.D. degree from California Coast University, all in electrical engineering. He is also a graduate of the Engineering Management Program at the California Institute of Technology, the Executive Institute at Stanford University and the Program for Senior Executives at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is credited with over 140 refereed publications, over 100 research reports and internal publications, over 100 keynote/ invited lectures, and 67 issued or pending patents.

Dr. Madni has served as a director on the board of six technology companies and on the advisory boards of several professional and academic organizations. He is currently "Distinguished College Professor" at TCI College of Technology, Adjunct Professor at Ryerson University & University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; and on advisory boards at UCLA, USC, CSUN, Northwestern University, TCI, IEEE Systems Journal and AutoSoft Journal.

Dr. Madni is also the recipient of numerous awards & national honors including, the Marconi Medal from TCI College of Technology, the World Automation Congress Lifetime Achievement Award, the IEE Achievement Medal, the Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award from the Engineers' Council, the George Washington Engineer of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Council of Engineers & Scientists, IEEE Millennium Medal, Joseph F. Engelberger Best Paper Award at the 2000 World Automation Congress, California Coast University Distinguished Alumni Award, Association of Old Crows Gold Certificate of Merit, and is listed in all major Who's Who publications including Who's Who in America. In 2002 UCLA awarded him the Professional Achievement Award Medal and in 2004 UCLA Engineering honored him with the Alumnus of the Year Award.

He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (UK), Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of Engineering, Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Lifetime Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, and Life Fellow of the International Biographical Association. He is also a Life Member of the Association of Old Crows and Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.

"Throughout my career I have been closely affiliated with UCLA and during my tenure at BEI I funded numerous R&D contracts to UCLA's EE & M&AE departments and to WINMEC and CENS. UCLA Engineering has some of the brightest minds in the country on its faculty and the school is among the best in the world in interdisciplinary engineering." says Dr. Madni. He is actively involved with UCLA and the Engineering School, serving on numerous advisory boards, including as President of the Engineering Alumni Association, Chair of the EE Alumni Advisory Board, Member of the M&AE Industrial Advisory Board and WINMEC & RFID Advisory Boards.