IX-CAD Team
Creativity is a key ingredient to innovative products. To be creative the designer has to have Know-How, the right mentality and very important intuition. To be innovative is my passion.
Karsten Droegemueller
Managing Director
Karsten Drögemüller is co-founder and Managing Director of the company IX-CAD GmbH. He has over twenty five years of experience in the Fiber Optics industry at several positions as engineer and as manager in the product development of components and transceivers, in the production ramp up and in long term customer relationships in America and Asia. He is specialist inRF package and high speed path design performing with EM-Field simulation tools. At Fiber Optics Infineon TechnologiesKarsten was Project Manager of the first parallel optical link (PAROLI) in the market. Previously he was twelve years with the Central Corporate Research of the SIEMENS AG in Munich. He holds the Diploma in Microwave Circuits and Fiber Optics Technology from the Technische University Braunschweig.
He is Author and Co-Author of 20 Publications, has given presentations on international conferences and holds 6 patents.
Karsten is designated member of the technically advanced group of users in the AgilentEEsof EDA community. The worldwide group has 25 members.
Jim Tardiff, Program Manager at Sun Microsystems Inc. said: “Karsten possess a rare mixture of technical depth, program management, team leadership and interpersonal skills.”