FDI Management Team

Kent Lowman has 40 years of experience in the embedded design community. He has direct technical experience in hardware and software design as well as project and engineering management with one of the world’s top-five contract manufacturers.

Early in his career, Lowman worked for a top-10 international semiconductor company in roles ranging from field applications engineer to technical and strategic marketing. He was responsible for key partnerships with development tool vendors and major communication customers, and was active in helping develop some of the first high-volume surface-mount designs.

Lowman has a BS in Electrical Engineering and has published application notes and presented embedded design workshops internationally. He holds six U.S. patents for his design work. Lowman co-founded FDI in 1989.

Mark Hall has 42 years of technical experience in engineering and production management. He worked at one of the largest contract manufacturing companies in the world, and managed both the design and manufacturing groups at a major producer of PC motherboards and memory modules.

Before co-founding FDI, he founded the PC Group at Sanmina-SCI, which eventually produced about $4 billion per year in revenue. Hall has a BS in Electrical Engineering and is an experienced ISO 9001 manager. He is a recognized authority on hardware and systems design.

Todd DeBoer has 41 years of technical and managerial experience, distinguishing himself as a creative thought leader and motivator.

Mr. DeBoer has experience working in engineering, marketing, sales, and management, allowing him to look at issues from a variety of perspectives. His strategies save partners time and money. He has managed projects as vast as $27M/year using cross-functional teams to simplify board development and complete builds in under a month. In 2013, Mr. DeBoer and his team were awarded a patent for a system that facilitates microcontroller communications between customized Windows applications and development tools.

Mr. DeBoer has a master”s and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering—with a focus on the embedded microcontroller side of robotics—from the University of Florida.

Christy McLemore has over 31 years of experience in electronics, production planning and purchasing. She has been with FDI for 23 years; previously she worked as a purchaser and production planner at other local electronics companies, helping them earn ISO-9001 registration. As purchasing and planning manager, McLemore maintains inventory control and ensures that products and services are delivered on time and on budget.