Gay Samuelson holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of  Wisconsin. She has been an engineering manager at Intel for 14 years running an analytical laboratory that supports package development at the Chandler facility.  Prior to that, she managed hybrid assembly of pacemakers at Micro-Rel, a division of Medtronics and worked 10 years at Motorola in liquid crystal display technology, thin film characterization and finally photovoltaic development and manufacturing.