26 October 2011

Kyma’s chief operating officer named a Triangle Mover and Shaker

Dr Heather Splawn, chief operating officer (COO) of Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA — which provides crystalline gallium nitride (GaN), aluminum nitride (AlN) and aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) materials and related products and services — has been selected as a 2011 Triangle Mover and Shaker. She was among area winners honored at the 2011 Triangle Mover & Shaker Awards dinner at Brier Creek Country Club in Raleigh on 6 October.

Sponsored by Business Leader Media (which publishes Triangle Business Leader magazine), the Triangle Movers and Shakers award recognizes “leaders who are inspirational and devoted to both their co-workers and the community”. Nominees must be either rising leaders within companies with more than 100 staff or C-level executives leading rising companies with fewer than 100 staff.

Splawn joined Kyma in early 2010 as director of business development, and around the same time she was awarded a Corporate Research Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineers (sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and the American Society for Engineering Education). In late 2010 she took on the role of VP of operations. This August she was promoted to chief operating officer.

Splawn received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University in 2009. She was founding president of the University of South Carolina Chapter of Upsilon Phi Epsilon, an International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines. She served on the Executive Council of Phi Beta Kappa at USC and as the president of the Engineering Graduate Student Council and then as a student representative to the Executive Committee of Graduate Faculty while at Duke.

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