Ralf Muenster

Ralf J. Muenster is SiLC's vice president of business development and marketing. He has over two decades of experience commercializing and growing differentiated high-tech businesses and expanding customer and partnership engagements. Prior to SiLC, Muenster was the director of Texas Instruments' CTO office where he was responsible for identifying and developing impactful new growth vectors and strategic technology partnerships for the company. Muenster has held various executive roles in the semiconductor industry, including serving as an intrapreneur and business executive at National Semiconductor, Micrel and AMD, where he was head of the automotive market segment. Muenster founded a successful computer start-up company in Germany and was a scientist at the University of California at Berkeley performing research in the photonics field. He holds a master's degree in physics from the Technical University in Munich. Muenster has authored a long list of publications and is frequently invited to speak at leading industry forums. Muenster is a multiple U.S. patent holder.