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Dr. Gary D. Butler is the founder, president and chief executive officer of Camgian Microsystems Corporation. Since its formation in 2006, Dr. Butler has led the development and execution of the company's business strategy, which has included two acquisitions. These include fabless semiconductor company Theseus Logic, a leader in asynchronous integrated circuit technologies, and an engineering group and design facility of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. He has also established strategic relationships with a number of large corporate partners, including Camgian's selection as a protégé company to DRS Technologies, one of the world's largest suppliers of advanced military electronic systems. Today, Camgian has corporate offices in two states, annual multi-million dollar revenues and technology development efforts in areas related to advanced embedded networking technologies and ultra-low power integrated circuits supported by organizations such as the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Camgian's current intellectual property portfolio includes more than twenty patents in the area of advanced low-power semiconductor technologies. In 2009, Camgian received the Governor's Cup Award from the Mississippi Development Authority, was named as one of Mississippi's Companies to Watch by the Mississippi Technology Alliance and the Edwin Lowe Foundation and was listed as one of Mississippi's top 100 private companies by the Mississippi Business Journal. Prior to founding Camgian, Dr. Butler was a senior staff member in the Washington, DC office of Internet pioneer BBN Technologies where he led technology development programs in the areas of advanced networks, ultra-wideband communications and radar, and signal processing technologies. At BBN, Dr. Butler was elected for membership in the company's senior science organization, a rank representing approximately the top 10% of the research and development staff, received BBN's annual best DARPA revenue award, and was elected as a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Over his career, he has captured and led research programs totaling more than $25M in funding, co-authored publications on the application of wavelets to signal analysis and has been awarded patents related to the application of genetic algorithms to signal classification and multi-static ultra-wideband radar signal processing. Dr. Butler received his PhD from the University of Cambridge where he studied engineering and was a member of Churchill College. He received the Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS degree in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University and a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Tulane University. At Tulane, Dr. Butler was a scholarship athlete, a four-time varsity football letterman, and named an NCAA and Entergy Corporation Winning for Life Scholar Athlete.