Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA (which makes passive and active RF, microwave and millimeter-wave products) has appointed Tim Galla as product manager for Active RF Components.
Galla has more than 25 years of product development, applications engineering and business development expertise from many of the RF/microwave industry's most recognized names, says Pasternack, adding that he has a track record of developing and introducing market-differentiating products and creating new market opportunities. Galla will focus on expanding Pasternack's rapidly growing lines of active components including RF amplifiers, limiters, mixers, oscillators, circulators, isolators and switches.
Prior to joining Pasternack, Galla held the position of business development manager and program manager of RF/microwave components at Mercury Systems. He has also worked for several other industry leaders including Watkins Johnson, Stellex Microwave Systems, Teledyne Microwave, Tyco Electronics and M/A-COM. Pasternack holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from a leading California University, with an emphasis in advanced mathematics.
"With a long and diverse background in the RF/microwave components sector, Tim has garnered a broad perspective of this industry and the products that support it," comments Michael Rachlin, director of product management. "In this new role, we look forward to Tim assisting our customers' engineering and technical requirements with component and application expertise that spans the entire scope of the RF market."
