Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 27, 2000

Sabrina Kemeny – Photobit Corporation

DR. SABRINA KEMENY is the Founder and Chairman of Photobit Corporation, an industry-leading supplier of CMOS image sensors (camera systems-on-a- chip) with 125 employees. Dr. Kemeny recruited Photobit's management team and oversees the company's strategic business direction. She has successfully managed three rounds of equity financing, raising over $20 million, and negotiated alliances with such firms as Kodak, Schick Technologies, Gentex Corporation, and Germany's Basler AG. Before forming Photobit, Dr. Kemeny served for four years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, winning awards for her engineering designs. She was a member of JPL's active-pixel image sensor development team and co- invented the technology that was to form the basis of Photobit's business. Earlier, while working for Ford Aerospace & Communications, she designed the linear CCD sensor flown on the 1990 Mars Observer mission. Dr. Kemeny was profiled by TIME magazine in its November 1999 digital edition and is often invited to speak on business and technology topics. She is a recipient of the Helena Rubinstein Outstanding Women in Science award, has published more than 20 technical papers, and holds several patents. Dr. Kemeny is a graduate of Columbia University, where she received two degrees and her PhD, all in Electrical Engineering. A native New Yorker, she began her career as a Registered Nurse and now lives near Los Angeles with her husband and children. Profile
TWST: Would you provide our readers with an overview of Photobit

Corporation?

Dr. Kemeny: We're a fabless semiconductor supplier of image sensor

chips, which you can think of as electronic