Corporate Governance

Robert Carlile, a retired Partner at KPMG LLP, joined MicroVision’s board in 2017 and currently serves as Chair of the Board. In his 39-year career in public accounting at KPMG and Arthur Andersen, Mr. Carlile served as the lead audit partner on numerous public company engagements operating across different industries including technology, retail, transportation, bio-science, and manufacturing. In addition to his experience as a lead audit partner, Mr. Carlile held a variety of operating leadership positions at KPMG and Arthur Andersen in the Pacific Northwest. Since 2019, Mr. Carlile has served on the Board of Directors of publicly traded Expeditors International where he is the Chairman of the Board. Mr. Carlile also serves on the Board of Directors of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and is a past Chairman of the Northwest Chapter Board of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Simon Biddiscombe joined the MicroVision board in 2018. Mr. Biddiscombe serves as Chief Financial Officer of Third Wave Automation, since August 2022. He also served as Executive Partner at Thomas H. Lee Partners, a premier private equity firm investing in middle market growth companies, from May 2022 to October 2023. Mr. Biddiscombe was Chief Executive Officer and a board member at MobileIron, from October 2017 until its sale to Ivanti, Inc. in December 2020 and previously served as MobileIron’s Chief Financial Officer. He previously has served in several executive leadership roles including Chief Financial Officer at Service Source International, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer at QLogic, Chief Financial Officer at Mindspeed Technologies, and Chief Financial Officer at Wyle Electronics. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he spent nine years, including the firm’s Silicon Valley technology accounting and audit practice. Mr. Biddiscombe holds a BA in business studies from the University of Glamorgan and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Jeffrey Herbst joined the MicroVision board in 2022. Mr. Herbst spent nearly twenty years at NVIDIA where he built and managed an ecosystem of accelerated computing applications spanning the domains of AI, data science, autonomous machines, and graphics and visualization. While there, he created the NVIDIA GPU Ventures program, overseeing more than 40 global investments and 20 acquisitions valued at over $8 billion, and led the NVIDIA Inception global startup accelerator comprised of more than 8,000 AI, data science and high-performance computing companies. He later co-founded GFT Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage frontier technology companies primarily located in the U.S. and Israel. He holds a law degree from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University.

Peter Schabert joined the MicroVision Board in June 2024. Mr. Schabert is an accomplished automotive executive with over 30 years of management experience. During his career, Mr. Schabert served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Beijing Benz Automotive and in various leadership roles at Daimler AG, including head of global powertrain production, and site manager of several Mercedes-Benz manufacturing sites serving in locations throughout Germany, China, and the U.S. Mr. Schabert is currently a management consultant advising companies in the automotive supply industry. Mr. Schabert has a mechanical engineering degree from Technische Universität Braunschweig.

Sumit Sharma was appointed MicroVision CEO in 2020 after overseeing the company’s engineering, R&D, products, and operations functions. Prior to joining MicroVision, he held leadership roles at Google[x], Jawbone, and MicroOptical.

Jada Smith joined the MicroVision Board in June 2024. Ms. Smith is an engineering, program management and strategy executive with nearly 25 years of experience in the automotive industry. Ms. Smith is currently Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Delivery at Karma Automotive, a role she has held since December 2023. Previously, Ms. Smith served in several roles at Aptiv, including as Senior Program Director, Ford, Global Engineering Director - Software Platform, and Global Director of Program Management, Connection Systems. Prior to joining Aptiv, Ms. Smith held various engineering leadership roles at Delphi Automotive. Ms. Smith also served on the Board of Directors of the nonprofit Center for Automotive Research between 2019 and 2024. Ms. Smith has an M.B.A from Indiana University Kokomo and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University.

Dr. Mark Spitzer joined the MicroVision board in 2020. Dr. Spitzer is an experienced technology innovator with expertise in eyewear- and head-mounted systems, micro-displays, imaging optics for AR and VR, and photovoltaics. He has a strong record of inventive entrepreneurship with 70 issued US patents, over 86 publications and leadership positions with ground-breaking technology companies. His experience in technology development and management includes serving as Principal Scientist at Kopin Corporation in the early 1990s where he led DARPA-funded development of micro-displays for military head-mounted systems. In 1996 Dr. Spitzer founded the MicroOptical Corporation (eventually renamed Myvu), where as CEO he launched several industrial and consumer eyewear-based AR products. In 2012 Dr. Spitzer joined Google X as Director of Operations for Glass, and later moved to the VR team at Google where he helped build expertise in VR hardware design. He retired in 2017. Dr. Spitzer is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Senior Member of the IEEE. In 2014 he received the Special Recognition Award from the Society for Information Display for contributions to the development of active-matrix liquid-crystal micro-displays, micro-display viewing optics, and wearable computer technology. Dr. Spitzer earned his B.A. with distinction in physics at Boston University and his Ph.D. in physics at Brown University.