Sentons Names Jess Lee as CEO; Appoints NEA’s Forest Baskett to Board
Summary
Sentons Inc. , a San Jose, Calif.-based developer of advanced touch and force sensing solutions, has named Jess Lee as its new President & CEO. Mr. Lee joins the company with more than 25 years of advanced sensor engineering and executive leadership from InVisage, Apple, OmniVision, and Silicon Graphics. In addition, Sentons announced that Forest Baskett, PhD., a general partner at global venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA), will join the Board of Directors. He led InVisage from its neonatal R&D stage to product adoption and revenue with Tier 1s, more than $100M of capital raises, and ultimately its exit to Apple, where he drove M&A integration into undisclosed projects. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Dr. Baskett worked in the tech world as Senior Vice President of R&D and CTO of Silicon Graphics Inc., and was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.