Force-sensitive touch sensor startup gains CEO
NextInput (Milpitas, Calif.) was founded in 2012 as a spin-off from Georgia Institute of Technology to commercialize a pressure-sensitive method of interfacing with electronics devices. The company says that multiple sensors are placed under a display surface and offer a lower-cost solution that also consumes less power when compared with capacitive touch. The company adds that multipoint touch solutions that can sense the location and amount of force from each touch point down to sub-millimeter spatial resolution, and sub-millinewton force resolution.
Before joining NextInput Foughi was vice president of marketing and business development at InvenSense. Prior to that he worked for nearly 20 years at Maxim Integrated Products in various capacities and becoming general manger of multiple mixed-signal business units.
"The company founders have done a great job of getting the company through its initial technology development phase. The board and I believe the company has grown to the point where it needs an experienced, results-oriented executive to lead NextInput through the next stage of growth," said Steve Nasiri, NextInput Board Member and the founder of InvenSense.
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