Management Team

Bernard J Gizzi – President

Bernard Gizzi, President and co-owner has had a career that spanned 25 years in the electronics & embedded computing industry. He spent 19 years with Arrow Electronics in various sales and management responsibilities until September of 2004, at which time he joined Newark Electronics as the Regional Vice President of Sales for the Western US & Canada. After a successful tenure as RVP he was promoted to VP Global Supplier Management with Newark’s parent~Premier Farnell, with responsibility for commercial negotiations and support of over 450 suppliers. His work then involved driving supplier management best practices, performance, value, and their eSupplier strategy.

Having graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana, and with executive classes at Harvard and the University of Chicago he is committed to excellence in all that Eclipse does and will help guide our vision & shape the future of Professional Services that the firm provides.

Tom Smigelski – Founder and VP Engineering

Tom has over 30 years of experience in the electronics industry. His broad ranging skills include all aspects of analog, RF and digital IC design and manufacture. Tom also provides industry leadership to interface standards organization. In addition to IC design, Tom’s expertise extends to system design, algorithm modeling, product specification and architecture definition, embedded software, functional verification, and board development and system prototyping.

Tom previously founded Zurich Design Laboratories, a design services firm based in Chicago, where he successfully completed complex chip design projects for leading global electronics companies. Tom chip design background began with ASIC development positions at Northrop Grumman and AT&T. Tom holds an MSEE from University of Illinois and a BS Physics from IIT. Tom holds seven US patents.

Tony Vitucci – Founder and Chief Operating Officer

Tony has over 20 years of experience leading and managing IC design projects for industry leading global electronics companies. Most recently Tony led worldwide system design services organizations for design automation software providers Agility Design Solutions and Celoxica. In that role, Tony led engineering teams in the development of cutting edge designs for major customers including NASA, Intel, Motorola, Toshiba, Toyota, Lockheed, and Northrop.

In addition to engineering services sales and management, Tony is also an experienced design engineering entrepreneur. Tony founded Chicago-based design services firm Advanced Digital Designs, and built a successful business serving the Communications, Military, and Medical Instrumentation Markets.  ADD was acquired in 2001 by a major manufacturer of set-top boxes.

Prior to ADD, Tony held positions in worldwide business development and consulting at Mentor Graphics overseeing chip design services projects and program management. Tony began his career as a chip designer with Motorola where he rose to manage the ASIC design engineering organization. Tony holds a BSEE degree from University of Illinois.

Ed Allen-Partner

Ed has over 25 years of experience as a proven business leader and senior operating executive.  Most recently Ed served as Executive Vice President/Co-Owner of Dedicated Computing LLC, an embedded computing solutions provider for OEM’s in the Medical, Military, and Security industries.  In addition, Ed served on the Intel Board of Advisers for North America.

Prior to joining Dedicated Computing, Ed served as an Executive of Bossard North America.  Under Ed’s leadership as President of Bossard Milwaukee Inc. he led a successful turnaround which set the foundation for a winning merger in North America.  Previously, he spent over 15 years with Acer America and Arrow Electronics, where he held a number of management, sales and senior marketing roles.

Ed holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business from The Ohio State University and is a member of YPO, the “Young Presidents Organization”, which provides unique experiences, world-class resources, and specialized networking opportunities for emerging leaders of industry.

Tony Kobrinetz – Board Director

Tony Kobrinetz currently serves on the executive team at PCTEL, a global leader in wireless products and solutions, as VP of Technology & Operations. Previously he was Vice President at Motorola, where he was responsible for leading the corporation’s entrée into broadband wireless access with particular focus on the development of WiMAX products and services. Previously as the General Manager (and Business Founder) of the Canopy Business he successfully transitioned the wireless broadband technology incubator into a commercial business.

As a seasoned technology and business professional, Mr. Kobrinetz has devoted over 30 years to the shaping of mobile telephony, wireless local area networks, cellular telecommunications and telematics. He has held executive-level positions in product development, supply chain and system implementation of innovative communications equipment. Previously, Mr. Kobrinetz served as general manager for the Advanced Products Division that designed and manufactured the first digital infrastructure platform that Motorola produced for the Japanese cellular infrastructure market.

Mr. Kobrinetz holds numerous patents in communication components and systems. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master of Business Administration from Loyola University in Chicago.