About Us

Stan comes to NextFlex from PulseForge/NovaCentrix where he is a founding member, and served in a variety of internal and external-facing executive roles, though always with a preference for customer and market engagement. During his last 6 years at PulseForge/NovaCentrix, Stan was also the Chairperson for the Frankfurt-based OE-A, where he led the expansion of the eco-system engagement from primarily technical to include marketing and product design. He began his career at Applied Materials in manufacturing operations and new-product development/scale-up.

Stan has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas in Austin, with specialization in heat transfer and fluid mechanics. He received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Rice University in Houston where he was a TA for machine shop and welding.

Prior to NextFlex, Dr. Gamota has more than 25 years in innovation, engineering, and manufacturing while leading major companies in the fields of microelectronics, advanced packaging, complex integrated systems, and hybrid electronics. Most recently, Dr. Gamota was VP at Jabil where his global teams provided innovation & engineering services as well as scalable manufacturing operations to SMMs and Fortune 250 companies. He was previously with Motorola, where he served as director and fellow of the technical staff collaborating across the semiconductor, packaging, components, and manufacturing business units to commercialize automotive, communications, industrial, and government & public safety products.

He is well-known for leading R&D and collaborative innovation teams. In addition, Dr. Gamota has led several multi-member microelectronics systems solutions development programs (DARPA, NIST ATP, etc.) He is a member of the SEMI Board of Industry Leaders, University of Michigan MSE External Advisory Board, and San Jose State University Engineering Industry Advisory Council. Dr. Gamota is also active in and has chaired committees developing microelectronics, advanced packaging, and hybrid electronics guidelines, standards, and roadmaps for IEEE, iNEMI, IPC, IEC, A*STAR, and SEMI. Dr. Gamota was elevated to a NextFlex Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and was named a Dan Noble Fellow at Motorola for his contributions and leadership. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Northwestern University.

Dr. Gamota’s first notable efforts in the hybrid electronics sector came in 1999 at Motorola – high density, thin memory die array on a flexible substrate for wireless streaming of encrypted video to a handheld communications product.

Becky joins NextFlex as the Director of Workforce Development, having worked most recently as the Director of Academic Partnerships with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. Becky has over twenty years of leadership experience in higher education, grant procurement and workforce development. She has helped secure multiple Federal and state grants of over 10M at her former organizations and developed collaborative partnerships between academia and industry over the past 20 years, primarily in manufacturing and healthcare. Becky is passionate about improving people’s lives through workforce development, including addressing issues of equity, access to higher education and improving the health and well-being of vulnerable populations through access to quality STEM Education. Becky holds a Masters in Social Work and a Masters in Public Health, both from the University of Washington in Seattle.

As the Director of Technology, Scott is responsible for the portfolio of Project Calls funded by NextFlex, runs its Technical Council and Technical Working Groups, leads the development of hybrid  industry roadmapping, oversees initiatives within the Institute, builds and maintains relationships with government and industry partners, and is actively engaged with many of the Agency Driven Projects that NextFlex executes with partner organizations. Scott has a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering Degree from the University of Delaware and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, where he did research on large area electronics manufacturing based on printing processes. Prior to joining NextFlex, Scott led materials R&D groups at GE Global Research supporting a diverse range of businesses. He has worked in areas including printed, flexible, and hybrid electronics; wearable devices; additive manufacturing; and bioprinting and biofabrication.

Hai Nguyen obtained his BSEE from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a concentration in RF. He spent the first 17 years of his career at Anritsu Company in various engineering, manufacturing, production management, engineering management, and business development roles. Before transitioning to business development, he also obtained an MBA from Santa Clara University. From 2021 to recently, he was a Director of Engineering at Marki Microwave where he led NPI, test engineering, manufacturing engineering, production engineering, CAD, and a prototyping team.

From Startups to large companies, Andy is an experienced and energetic IT Leader with a proven track record of hiring and managing high performance teams including Helpdesk, network, telecom, and enterprise application teams. His specialties include planning and executing IT software and hardware deployments, Cloud Migrations, process improvement initiatives, and data center infrastructure expansions. He also has experience managing global teams, budgets, vendors, and cross functional project teams.

After holding progressive finance roles at Advanced Micro Devices (billion-dollar semiconductor), Dana ventured into private startups where she wore multiple hats and learned a business at close range. Some of the startups she joined went through IPOs and M&As. Her last two jobs before being the Director of Finance at NextFlex were CFO at a security monitoring company and Vice President of Finance at a smart contact lenses company which later pivoted to display tech. She also operated a tutoring center franchise in Santa Clara and was an adjunct professor at the University of Santa Clara.

Dana completed her bachelor’s degree is commerce major in accounting in the Philippines where she graduated cum laude. She was a Certified Public Accountant/CPA in the Philippines before she migrated to California. She earned her master’s degree in business administration/MBA at the University of Phoenix in San Jose, under an accelerated program. She became a CPA in California after having worked for Price Waterhouse, a big 4 CPA firm.

Erica Roman, NextFlex’s General Counsel, brings over 20 years of experience to this role. Her practice has spanned a variety of environments, from law firms to the U.S. Government, from litigation to transactional law. Her experience is firmly rooted in technology, having practiced with large and boutique law firms in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, including being a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing Group at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper).

Ms. Roman suspended her private practice for several years when she was selected to serve in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, D.C. Her duties included addressing multi-agency intellectual property policy matters and amicus curiae brief positions on behalf of the U.S. Government, in addition to preparing Congressional testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet.

Ms. Roman has deep experience with counseling non-profit technology consortia and other trade groups. She was a member of the original proposal team to secure NextFlex’s funding via its Cooperative Agreement, and has remained a legal advisor to NextFlex since its inception. Ms. Roman was named NextFlex’s General Counsel in November, 2018.

Ms. Roman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Yale University and a Juris Doctorate from University of California, Hastings. Ms. Roman is admitted to practice in California as well as before the U.S. Supreme Court.

As the Director of Human Resources, Taylor is responsible for all HR functions including strategic programs and initiatives, company-wide communication and events, health and safety, legal compliance, recruitment and retention of a diverse and high-quality workforce, benefits administration, and employee morale and well-being.

Taylor has the unique experience of joining NextFlex in February 2016, only 6 months after its inception, making her the 12^th employee in the company, supporting the varied needs of a burgeoning Executive Team. As the company grew, Taylor was able to devote her full attention to HR, drawing upon the people skills she had developed through her years in the hospitality and recreation industries. During NextFlex’s rapid expansion from 2019 to 2022, Taylor was instrumental in growing the NextFlex workforce by 57%.

Taylor earned her Master’s degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University, and her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of California at Santa Cruz. She is currently an active member in the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).