JCI Advisory Board Members

Emilio Salvioni Mr. Salvioni obtained his MSEE from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy in 1986. During his ten plus years tenure with Texas Instruments, he has occupied several managerial positions, accumulating a very extensive international experience in Europe, USA and Asia/Pacific. He has contributed to wafer fab startups in Italy and Texas, managing test operations and product/yield engineering at both the wafer-fab and assembly/test level. Since 1999, Mr. Salvioni has been a Vice President & General Manager with P&L responsibility for USA and Europe operations of UltraTera Corporation, a prominent Taiwan-based IC assembly and test service provider specialized in memory components.

Lyle Hurst Lyle Hurst, JCI Partner, has two practice areas: Teleservices Export: Covers the design of networks to link workforces in the developing world with service markets in the West. Within this practice, Mr. Hurst has created a strategic framework for teleservices delivery and maintains an inventory of related applications, technology and devices. Triple Bottom Line: Mr. Hurst assists organizations in defining and implementing measurement systems to manage and report their financial results, environmental impact, and social responsibility. Prior to joining JCI, Mr. Hurst was a vice-president at Hewlett-Packard. As co-founder of HP's World e-Inclusion program, he helped establish a truly unique corporate business initiative with a social mission. As Vice-President and Director of Strategic Business Development he led the strategy process and developed new initiatives for HP's consumer business. In other assignments, he managed worldwide marketing and operations for multi-billion dollar printing and support businesses and performed a variety of marketing and finance roles. Mr. Hurst has an MBA and a B.A. in Spanish Linguistics.

Dr. Geetha Rao Health Care and Medical Devices Click here to view her resume

Othmar J. Meier Othmar J. Meier has been a consultant in Silicon Valley since 1997. He specializes in financial consulting. He has successfully arranged financings for a number of Silicon Valley start-up companies and worked with various CEOs and CFOs on problem solving in their companies’ financial area. Before working in Silicon Valley, he spent a number of years with major Swiss financial institutions. He managed high networth individuals at Swiss Bank Corp. (now UBS) and worked for Credit Suisse/Credit Suisse First Boston, where he worked in Commercial Banking, International Banking, Trading and Asset Management. He was Head of IT and Head of Risk Management at CS Japan. He was also Board Member of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Japan as well as Board Member of the Institute of Foreign Bankers in Japan. He holds a Federal Master Degree in Professional Swiss Banking (Bankbeamtendiplom) and a Masters Degree of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (Sloan Fellow).