Victoria Pereira

Co-Founder / CEO and President

Victoria Pereira co-founded Otava after 30 years of leading design teams since the 1990’s on module, hybrid, and integrated circuit designs that were considered state of the art at the time of development. At Hughes Aircraft Radar Systems, she led the production of the first family of digital receiver modules featuring her wideband analog to digital converter MCM’s for radar applications; in IBM Microelectronics Division, she was part of the IBM Boston Design Center that developed the pioneering RFIC’s in early generation Silicon Germanium (SiGe) for wireless applications; in early 2000’s she was a Staff Scientist of Insyte Corporation, a start-up that was acquired by ITT where she a co-led on the productization of the first highly integrated modem SoC in SiGe during pre-WiFi days and a principal designer for multi-band transceiver SoC’s for DoD missions. At Lockheed Martin, she performed market assistance across multiple business lines and helped transform the electronics in advanced phased array programs for space, radar, and EW applications. She led the first-pass design of 3 GHz 10 bit Subranging ADC with ultra-low latency and was a DARPA Principal Investigator for a wideband system. She has 5 patents in reconfigurable analog data conversion and RF/Analog precision circuits and has numerous publications on the first integrated WCDMA transmitter RFIC’s in SiGe. She received Technology All Stars Award from Women of Color in 2006 and Individual Technology Innovation Award from Lockheed Martin in 2015. She received her BS Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Southern California.