PCB East Conference & Exhibition 2026 Exhibitor List

Mike Buetow is president of the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (pcea.net). He previously was editor-in-chief of Circuits Assembly magazine, the leading publication for electronics manufacturing, and PCD&F, the leading publication for printed circuit design and fabrication. He spent 21 years as vice president and editorial director of UP Media Group, for which he oversaw all editorial and production aspects. He has more than 30 years' experience in the electronics industry, including six years at IPC, an electronics trade association, at which he was a technical projects manager and communications director. He has also held editorial positions at SMT Magazine, community newspapers and in book publishing. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois.

She has been designing circuit boards for over 15 years, including a wide variety of applications such as high power, high density, and high-speed designs. She has also worked for Altium as a certified trainer and content developer. She has an IPC CID+ certification.

Albert Block brings over four decades’ experience in the SMTA/PCB industry. Previously, Block was responsible for evaluating new designs for product reliability and ensuring their robustness for NI’s manufacturing.

Burnham founded EMC United, Inc. in 2024 to focus on helping companies and hardware designers solve EMC problems. She has managed requirements and test planning for NASA and the Dream Chaser spaceship.

Gerry Callahan is a senior embedded systems engineer, with over 30 years of experience designing, programming, and testing electrical circuits and systems.

Tomas Chester has over a decade of experience designing hardware products through all phases of its lifecycle. He is now sharing his knowledge by instructing Altium and PCB engineering design courses.

She is also an adjunct professor at Austin Community College. She previously was a senior printed circuit board designer at McCauley Design Group.

Hartley’s focus is on correct design of circuits and PCBs to prevent and/or resolve EMI, noise and signal integrity problems. He is on the board of directors of the Circuit Engineering Association.

He has over 10 years of experience in software quality engineering and sales of signal integrity software. He chairs the PCEA Certification Task Group.

A seasoned hardware designer with over 16 years of experience in the electronics industry. His expertise encompasses all aspects of the hardware design process, from initial concept through to manufacturing.

He has been vice president of engineering at two startup companies. He has published technical articles in Printed Circuit Design and has been a presenter at many technical conferences.

Matthew Leary has been a PCB designer for more than 25 years. He is the founder and president of Newgrange Design, a 45-person PCB design service bureau based in Boston. He is a director of the PCEA.

Charlene McCauley has over 44 years’ experience as a PCB and mechanical designer. She has served 50+ customers in the server, semiconductor, space, military aircraft, radar, satellite, medical, simulator, oil field industries.