mmTron welcomes Dan Teuthorn to our executive team. As VP of Engineering, Dan will lead product development, product and applications engineering, and the expansion of mmTron’s technical infrastructure.

Before joining mmTron, Dan was general manager and acting engineering manager at X-Microwave. He helped double the company’s revenue run-rate, improve profitability, and enhance operational sustainability. Dan says his achievements were completing AS9100 certification, implementing ERP and cost accounting systems, and expanding the engineering team to enable revenue growth.

Dan began his career as a microwave engineer at Endwave, where he served as a lead engineer and was pivotal in scaling the company from a startup to a successful IPO. He later joined Endwave’s executive team, where he led technology initiatives for over a decade, including launching and managing a fabless semiconductor business within the company.

Dan also served as the VP of operations at Gener8, where he drove revenue growth and operational maturity, leading to the acquisition by private equity.

As VP of Engineering at Teledyne Microwave, he led technology development and contributed to the growth of the aerospace and defense sectors.

Dan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Davis; a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University; and dual MBA degrees from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and Columbia Business School.

mmTron has appointed Richardson RFPD, an Arrow Electronics company, as its authorized global distributor. This distribution agreement will expand mmTron's global reach through mmTron's innovative product portfolio and Richardson RFPD’s strong technical support.

Under the agreement, Richardson RFPD will represent mmTron globally, while adhering to all applicable international trade restrictions and exclusions. Richardson RFPD will represent all mmTron products and will stock the products best aligned with their target markets.

“We are excited to team with Richardson RFPD as our global distributor,” said Dr. Seyed A. Tabatabaei, co-founder and CEO of mmTron. “A key factor in our decision to appoint Richardson RFPD is the depth of their design and applications engineering team. Their strong technical capabilities and global presence will help us serve more customers, accelerating our growth in key markets like Satcom and FWA.”

mmTron has appointed Steven Layton as Vice President of Sales. With over 30 years’ experience in the microwave and mmWave industry, Layton brings a breadth of knowledge and depth of expertise to this role. His career spans iconic companies such as Avantek, Litton, and Endwave, with roles from applications to sales.

“We welcome Steven to our team,” said Seyed Tabatabaei, mmTron’s CEO. “We expect his broad business expertise and familiarity with our industry will help us secure key design wins. His fresh insights and innovative ideas will accelerate mmTron’s growth.”

Layton shared his enthusiasm about joining mmTron, saying, “I’m impressed by the technical excellence of mmTron’s team and products, which live up to the company’s aim of being disruptive. My experience will help secure business in our targeted markets and accelerate revenue growth.”

Before joining mmTron, Layton served for seven years as the chief operating officer of KG Technologies, where he was responsible for switching solutions for energy management. He rebranded the company and grew revenue and profitability, combining his skills in strategic vision and operations.

At Endwave Corporation, Layton led the Telecommunications division as senior VP and general manager. Endwave supplied microwave and mmWave modules for telecommunications and defense and was an early entrant in mmWave communications.

Before joining the corporate world, Layton served in the U.S. Army, including a role as technical assistance coordinator for Japan. He taught the only Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) school outside of the U.S., reflecting his leadership and teaching skills.

Layton earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Maryland. He holds a certificate in general management from Harvard University.

Learn how mmTron’s MMICs are Unleashing the mmWave Frontier, Stand 106E

mmTron will be exhibiting our products and capabilities at the European Microwave Week (EuMW) conference in Berlin, Germany, from September 19-21. At stand 106E, we will be discussing our disruptive MMICs that are addressing the mmWave markets and unleashing the mmWave frontier.

“Our goal attending EuMW is to expand awareness of our new products and capabilities to our existing and new European customers,” said Seyed Tabatabaei, CEO of mmTron. “For European companies new to mmTron, we want to show our presence as an established supplier in Europe.”

Featured Products

High-speed data converter interfaces that help maximize the sensitivity and dynamic range of direct RF sampling software-defined radios into Ka-Band. These A/D and D/A converter interfaces provide low noise and high linearity amplification, as well as transforming between the single-ended, 50 Ω RF signals and the differential ports of the high sample rate data converters.

GaN power amplifier MMICs with high power, high linearity, and high efficiency. They have been optimized to meet the needs of 5G infrastructure and both Satcom ground terminals and satellite payloads.

mmTron’s family of distributed low noise and power amplifier MMICs with upper bandwidths from 20 to 160 GHz. They provide low noise and high power amplification for mmWave systems, including the latest generation of test instrumentation for 6G.

Seyed Tabatabaei and Mona Molaasgari, co-founders of mmTron, and Michael Roberg, Engineering Fellow, will be available to discuss the performance of mmTron’s products and how they solve mmWave system challenges. To schedule a meeting, email contact@mmtron.com.

If you’re attending EuMW, we look forward to seeing you and discussing how mmTron’s products and capabilities are unleashing the mmWave frontier. If you’re not attending, you can peruse our product portfolio and request additional information at www.mmtron.com/products.

Mixer authority Stephen Maas has joined mmTron as a mmWave MMIC Mixer Design Scientist. He will focus on improving the linearity and mmWave coverage of MMIC mixers, leading to MMIC mixer products that will complement mmTron’s catalog of high linearity mmWave power amplifiers, very low noise amplifiers, and front-end modules.

“We are very fortunate to have Stephen apply his vast knowledge of mixers to extend mmTron’s capabilities and products,” said Seyed Tabatabaei, mmTron founder and CEO. “Mixers are integral to every RF system, yet mmWave mixers have not received much design focus. We want to fill the performance gaps in mmWave systems, especially high linearity.”

"I'm looking forward to applying my experience and RF design background to extend mmWave mixer performance, leading to innovative, high linearity products for mmTron," said Stephen Maas.

A Life Fellow of the IEEE, Maas is widely known for his expertise in RF, microwave, and mmWave mixer technology, which was recognized with the MTT-S Application Award in 2002 for the low distortion FET resistive mixer and the Microwave Prize in 1989 for his work on distortion in diode mixers.

His broad and detailed knowledge of all RF/microwave components is reflected in his numerous books: “Microwave Mixers,” “Nonlinear Microwave Circuits,” “The RF and Microwave Circuit Design Cookbook,” “Noise in Linear and Nonlinear Circuits,” and “Practical Microwave Circuits.”

Among his career accomplishments, Dr. Maas served as a principal and chief scientist of AWR Corporation, now part of Cadence Design Systems, where he helped develop the Microwave Office circuit simulator.

He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and 1972, respectively, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCLA in 1984.

mmTron is pleased to announce that Paul Blount has joined the company as a Technology Fellow. In this role, he will design MMIC products, focusing on low noise and high linearity amplifiers, and help mmTron’s leadership team develop the operations infrastructure to accelerate growth.

“We are very fortunate to have Paul at mmTron,” said Seyed Tabatabaei, mmTron founder and CEO. “Paul will contribute his deep MMIC design expertise to expand our product portfolio and his business experience from Custom MMIC, which he grew into a successful and highly regarded MMIC supplier.”

Blount started Custom MMIC in his basement in 2006. Over the next 15 years, he led the company to become a major supplier of MMICs for defense, satellite, instrumentation, and commercial systems. Custom MMIC was acquired by Qorvo for $96 million in 2020.

“Even as president and CEO of Custom MMIC, I spent time doing MMIC design and staying close to the technology,” said Blount. “Joining mmTron gives me the opportunity to stay at the forefront of mmWave MMIC design, exploring new ideas to help mmTron push their MMIC performance in the mmWave and sub-THz bands.”

Before starting Custom MMIC, Blount was a senior design engineer at Hittite Microwave, where he was a leading contributor to many product lines launched by Hittite. Before Hittite, he worked at Alpha Industries (now Skyworks) and Thorn EMI Electronics.