Executive Profiles

Experience. Expertise. Focus.

We’re focused on helping design engineers around the globe achieve their goals - faster and easier.  With more than 200 years of combined senior management experience in the communications industry, ANADIGICS' leadership is well equipped to continue to lead the wireless revolution with the vision, knowledge and direction to continue to deliver world’s firsts and continued innovation to our products, processes, design, functionality and all with the high quality required by our customers.



 

 

Management Committee


Ron Michels

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Michels has served as Chairman of the Board since March 22, 2013 and as Director, President and Chief Executive Officer since March 28, 2011.  He previously served as Senior Vice President – Chief Technology and Strategy Officer of the Company since April 2009. Mr. Michels joined ANADIGICS in 1987 and has served in several management and executive positions during that time. Prior to joining ANADIGICS, he held various engineering and management positions in Lockheed Electronics, New Jersey Public Broadcasting, and K & M Broadcasting. Mr. Michels earned his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He holds several U.S. Patents, has authored a number of publications in the area of RF communications and serves on the Lehigh University Electrical & Computer Engineering Advisory Board.

Terry Gallagher

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Gallagher has served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since November 2011. He was promoted to Vice President Finance in January 2008 and has served as Controller since 2004 after having joined the Company in 2000. Prior to joining ANADIGICS, he held corporate and operational financial management positions with Foster-Wheeler and Firmenich Incorporated. In addition, he served seven years in public accounting with Price Waterhouse, both domestically and internationally. Terry earned his B.A. degree in Accounting from Boston College, is a CPA and serves in leadership positions with several local non-profit organizations.




John van Saders

EVP, Quality and Design Technology

Mr. van Saders has served as Executive Vice President of Quality and Design Technology since August 2012. Prior to his current role, Mr. van Saders was Senior Vice President - RF Products since March 28, 2011 and served as the VP, Advanced Development after re-joining ANADIGICS in 2007, where he was responsible for mixed signal design, CAD, and foundry. Beginning in 2001, he served as the VP, Engineering and Manufacturing for ASIP, an optoelectronics startup which later merged with T-Networks. His responsibilities included product and business development, InP wafer fab construction and operation, process development, reliability, and establishing all manufacturing operations. He originally joined ANADIGICS in 1990 as a design engineer, serving in several management and executive product development positions. Prior to joining ANADIGICS, he was a Principle Investigator at Lockheed Electronics developing acousto-optic processing for adaptive phased array systems. He began his career developing line-of-sight laser communication links at Codenoll Technology.

He earned a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory) from NJIT and holds a Bachelors degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in Optical Physics.

He has several patents in circuit design and optical processing, and has authored a number of technical publications.