Zentral Team
Mazen Allawi

Mazen Allawi

Founder & CEO, Zentral Semi
30+ Years Semiconductor Leadership

A semiconductor executive and founder with more than 30 years of global engineering leadership across automotive and consumer markets. Served as Deputy Director of Automotive End Markets at GlobalFoundries, focused on defining next-generation automotive technologies and aligning strategic engagements to create new market opportunities.

Career centered on taking complex silicon products from architecture through mass production across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

  • Automotive system architecture
  • ISO 26262 functional safety alignment
  • 10BASE-T1S automotive networking
  • EMC & signal integrity validation
  • Manufacturing scale-up & yield optimization
  • OEM & Tier-1 engagement

In 2025, began MIT Sloan Executive Education program “AI: Implications for Business Strategy,” applying AI infrastructure economics and compute positioning insights directly to automotive edge AI silicon strategy.

Allam Steitieh

Allam Steitieh

Founder & COO, Zentral Semi
30+ Years Semiconductor Leadership

A seasoned technology executive and product leader with more than three decades of experience building and scaling mission-critical platforms across global enterprises and startups.

  • Led 800+ global engineers at Dell Technologies
  • Managed $80M+ annual budgets
  • BIOS/Firmware & DevSecOps transformation
  • Major launches with Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA
  • 15 recognized patents

Most recently designed AI-enabled platforms across healthcare and regulated industries focusing on secure, scalable cloud-native systems.

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