About The Speaker

Dr. Jonathan Kwadwo Abrokwah graduated with Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1974, and 1976 respectively, and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California under a Rockwell International Fellowship in 1979 and also earned a second Master’s degree in Materials Science that year.

After his education, Dr. Abrokwah was involved in pioneering work in the semiconductor field at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, Honeywell Corporate Research Laboratory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and McDonnell Douglas Electronics Systems Company at Huntington Beach, California, before joining Motorola in 1990, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Currently, he is a Research and Development Integration Engineer in the Wireless Systems Division of Avago Technologies in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, which manufactures radio frequency components, and modules for cellular phones, and data communication systems.

Dr Abrokwah has about 35 patents and over 75 publications on electronic materials, devices and components in scientific publications.

Dr Abrokwah attended GSTS in the sixties and was the Senior Prefect in his final year of 1971. Dr. Abrokwah serves on the Board of Trustees of GSTS Alumni Association of North America and also chairs its Investment Committee.