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46 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I FEBRUARY 2019 win, Jim Gazia, and Paul Fleming. At its peak, the chapter had meetings with 20–30 regularly attending members and an executive board consisting of roughly six members (Figures 2 and 3). We have had many great speakers and presenters over the years, including Dieter Bergman, Gary Ferrari, and Rick Hartley to say the least. We also had many of the industry PCB design tool vendors come out, presented, and sponsored meetings such as Mentor, Cadence, and Altium, as well as several local and global suppliers. After the economy went downhill, for several years, this chapter saw its attendance slowly drop to a point where we had more chapter leadership members and sponsoring suppli- ers in attendance at quarterly meetings than general members. As chapter leadership roles decreased and changed from one person to another, each executive member gave more than 110% effort trying all that was in their power to jump-start the chapter activity. Unfortunately, in late 2017, it was decided by the remaining four-member executive leadership team of the chapter to simply take a break and allow the chapter to lay dormant sim- ply due to the overall lack into the mix. I am very excited to work with them to get this chapter active again and work with other active global DC chapters." To contact Randy, you can email him at rku- magai@silvermountaindesign.com. History The Greater Phoenix Chapter has been in existence for over 20 years. One of the former presidents still has his membership card from 1997 where they used to meet at Motorola on Scottsdale Road and McDowell. More recently, meetings have typically been held every quar- ter at the ASU SkySong located in Scottsdale, Arizona (Figure 1). Like many of the other global chapters, this chapter started with a small group of designers many years ago with past leaders such as Cyrus Ringle, Dave Bald- Figure 1: SkySong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center. Figure 2: January 2011 Phoenix chapter presentation. Figure 3: April 2013 Phoenix chapter meeting.