Markus Levy is founder and president of EEMBC. He is also president of The Multicore Association and chairman of two technical conferences, the Multicore Expo and the ARM Developers' Conference. Mr. Levy was previously a senior analyst at In-Stat/MDR and an editor at EDN magazine, focusing in both roles on processors for the embedded industry. Levy began his career in the semiconductor industry at Intel Corporation, where he served as both a senior applications engineer and customer training specialist for Intel's microprocessor and flash memory products. He is the co-author of Designing with Flash Memory, the one and only technical book on this subject, and received several patents while at Intel for his ideas related to flash memory architecture and usage as a disk drive alternative. He is also Technical Editorial Director and Analyst at ConVergence Promotions, a member of the Microprocessor Report Editorial Review Board, and a volunteer firefighter.