Jason Lynch serves as Equal 1’s CEO. He has had a 20‐year career of delivering high impact results in executive management, strategy, sales, operations and technical engineering roles. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Microelectronic Engineering from the National University of Ireland, Cork in 1999 and 2005 respectively. He has also earned a Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Summa Cum Laude, from the Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, Massachusetts, USA in 2009.
Prior to joining Equal 1, he was a General Manager with Analog Devices, working on an innovative internal start‐up, driving AI for predictive maintenance. He built a multidisciplinary team making the promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) a reality, using cutting edge sensors and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to save factory-owners millions of dollars in unplanned downtime. He joined ADI as part of the acquisition of Hittite Microwave in July 2014.
He joined Hittite in 2004 and held various roles, the most recent as the Managing Director of Hittite Microwave International Limited. In this position, he launched and built a team at an international headquarters for Hittite in Cork, Ireland, comprising sales, operations and finance. He was responsible for revenues in the region of $150M (55% of overall revenue), with a worldwide team of sales, operations and finance of over 80 people (total company size of approx. 500 people). He was a member of the Board of the Irish entity, the international subsidiary companies, as well as a member of the executive leadership team of the Nasdaq‐traded US parent company. Hittite was sold to Analog Devices in 2014 in the 2nd largest semiconductor acquisition by P/E multiple in the previous 10 years. From 1999 until 2004 he was with a small technology start‐up, Farran Technology, in Cork, Ireland. Here he was chief author for papers presented at the International Microwave Symposium and the European Microwave Conference, including a paper that presented the highest reported W‐band MMIC output power for a European group at the time.