Joe Pirzadeh
President & CEO
ATSONIC, Inc.

Pirzadeh, with more than 15 years of business and technical experience and recognized as an unparalleled visionary and strategist, has been at the forefront of some of technology's most significant breakthroughs during the past years. He is an interesting character who has done many things. This includes design for a nuclear power plant in Illinois and invention of an "escalator" for gaming devices for which he earned a patent in both the United States and Canada. Pirzadeh came to the U.S. in 1978 and is educated as a mechanical engineer. He worked as a consultant just prior to starting ATS, the parent company of ATSONIC, in 1994.

Pirzadeh has accomplished much during his tenure as CEO of the ATS family of companies, but perhaps his most notable is the successful resolution of a lawsuit ATS brought against Motorola.