Engineering Management

Mr. Aftab joined Acacia in July 2006 and was promoted to Vice President in January 2010. Prior to joining Acacia, Mr. Aftab was a Senior Engineer at Semiconductor Insights, a leading semiconductor company specializing in IP support. At Semiconductor Insights Mr. Aftab was responsible for managing patent portfolios for semiconductor companies such as Texas Instruments, Phillips, Toshiba. Prior to Semiconductor Insights Mr. Aftab has held several design and development positions. Mr. Aftab holds a BSEE from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, and MSEE from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Mr. Anderson joined Acacia in February 2008 as Vice President. Prior to joining Acacia, Mr. Anderson was Director of Software Development at Websense, where he directed a department developing enterprise security solutions. Previously, Mr. Anderson was Director of Software Development at Sun Microsystems and Manager of Software Development at Cray Research. Mr. Anderson is a named inventor of issued and pending patents and holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mr. Booth joined Acacia in June 2006 as Vice President and was promoted to Vice President, General Manager of Engineering in January 2010. Prior to joining Acacia, Mr. Booth was Director of Systems Engineering at Nicholas Laboratories, a privately held technology company owned by ex-Broadcom CEO, Dr. Henry Nicholas, III. Previously, Mr. Booth was Vice President of Engineering of Intheairnet; Senior Director Engineering of Powerwave Technologies; Vice President of Engineering and CTO of Comarco Wireless Technologies, Vice President of Engineering, Sony Corporation. He began his engineering career as a Masters Fellow at Hughes Aircraft Co. Display Systems Division. Mr. Booth holds a B.S. Physics, from the University of California Riverside and a MSEE degree from the University of Southern California.

Mr. DePirro joined Acacia in January 2003 as Vice President. Before joining Acacia, Mr. DePirro was Senior Vice President of Media Technology at Intertainer, a pioneer in the video-on-demand industry. Previously he was a Senior Systems Engineer with Vanstar, one of the nation’s largest systems integrators and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Mr. Mitchell joined the company in January 2008 as Vice President. Mr. Mitchell has held a number of positions in the technology industry including North American Marketing Manager of Polytec, Manager, Technology Development of Newport Corporation, Engineering/Business Manager for Laser Products of JMAR Technologies, Technical & Product Marketing Manager of Melles Griot and Senior Member of Technical Staff, Hughes Research Laboratories. He is a named inventor of a number of issued and pending patents and was awarded the Hughes "Recognition of Innovation & Excellence in Laser Technology & Applications". Mr. Mitchell holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Ms. Pearson joined Acacia in May 2006 as Director and was promoted to Vice President in January 2010. She was formerly Patent Attorney for Actown Electrocoil and Mechanical Engineer for Engineering Animation/EDS. Prior to Engineering Animation/EDS, she was a Mechanical Engineer at Motorola, Inc.. Ms. Pearson received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University and her J.D. from the John Marshall Law School.

Mr. Raasch joined Acacia in April 2009 as Vice President. Prior to joining Acacia, Mr. Raasch was Senior Director of Product Planning at Quartics, Inc., where he was responsible for the specification of PC2TV and MCP video image processing products. Previously, Mr. Raasch was Division Director, Business Development and Technology planning at Conexant Systems, Inc., and was responsible for AST’s designs in the portable PC market as Director of Engineering at AST Research.  Mr. Raasch  is a named inventor on issued patents, including 6 in telecommunications and holds a BSEE degree from California State University, Fullerton.