Alex Lidow

Alex Lidow is CEO and co-founder of Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC). Since 1977 Dr. Lidow has been dedicated to making power conversion more efficient upon the belief that this will reduce the harm to our environment and increase the global standard of living.

Dr. Lidow served as CEO of International Rectifier for 12 years prior to founding EPC in 2007.

Dr. Lidow holds many patents in power semiconductor technology, including basic patents in power MOSFETs as well as in GaN transistors and integrated circuits. He has authored numerous peer reviewed publications on related subjects, and recently co-authored the first textbook on GaN transistors, “GaN Transistors for Efficient Power Conversion”, now in its second edition published by John Wiley and Sons.

Dr. Lidow earned his Bachelor of Science from Caltech in 1975, and his PhD from Stanford in 1977.