Board of Directors

Robert Carlile joined MicroVision’s board in 2017 and has been the Chairman of the Board since June 2022. Previous to that he was Chair of the Audit Committee. Mr. Carlile was a partner at KPMG LLP from 2002 to 2016, and a partner at Arthur Andersen LLP from 1987 to 2002. During his 39-year career in public accounting, Mr. Carlile served as the lead audit partner on numerous public company engagements operating across different industries including technology, global logistics, retail, transportation 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. Mr. Carlile also serves on the Board of Directors of publicly traded Expeditors International, where he is the Chairman of the Board, and the Board of Directors of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.

Simon Biddiscombe joined the MicroVision board in 2018. Mr. Biddiscombe is an advisor to privately held Third Wave Automation, a provider of high-reach autonomous forklifts having previously served as their Chief Financial Officer from August 2022 to December 2024. 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 publicly traded MobileIron, Inc., a security software provider for the digital enterprise protecting corporate data across apps, networks, and clouds, from October 2017 until its sale to Ivanti, Inc. in December 2020. From May 2015 to October 2017, Mr. Biddiscombe served as MobileIron’s Chief Financial Officer. He previously served in several executive leadership roles including Chief Financial Officer at ServiceSource 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 Vice President, Program Management for the Americas at Visteon Corporation, a publicly traded global technology company in the automotive industry, a role she has held since September 2024. From December 2023 to September 2024, Ms. Smith served as Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Delivery at Karma Automotive, a privately held ultra-luxury electric vehicle manufacturer. Prior to Karma Automotive, Ms. Smith served in several roles of increasing responsibility at Aptiv PLC, a publicly traded global technology company serving the automotive industry. At Aptiv, from February 2022 to November 2022, Ms. Smith served as Senior Program Director, Ford; from November 2020 to August 2022, as Global Engineering Director, Software Platform; from June 2020 to November 2020, as Global Director of Program Management, Connection Systems; as well as previous roles. Prior to Aptiv, Ms. Smith spent nearly 13 years in various engineering roles at Delphi Automotive PLC, a publicly traded high-technology company serving the automotive and transportation sectors, which created Aptiv PLC via a spin-off transaction in 2017. From September 2019 to March 2024, Ms. Smith served on the Board of Directors of the nonprofit Center for Automotive Research. Ms. Smith has a Master of Business Administration Degree from Indiana University Kokomo and a B.S. Degree 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.