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Terry Gilton

Partner at Celesta Capital

Boise, Idaho

Overview 

Terry Gilton is a Partner at Celesta Capital in Boise, Idaho, with a background in venture capital, sensors, semiconductors, and intellectual property. Highlights of his career include serving as VP Advanced Technology at Aptina Imaging and Senior Director of Sensor Technology at Apple Inc. Currently, Terry Gilton is leveraging his expertise in venture capital and technology as a Partner at Celesta Capital, specializing in investments in sectors like semiconductors, enterprise applications, IoT, and data services.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2020 - Current

  • Venture Partner

    2020 - 2020

Celesta Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs and disruptive technology companies.

  • Owner

    2014 - 2020

  • Retired

    2019 - 2020

  • Clinical Assistant Professor

    2015 - 2019

    Focused on teaching chemistry, while also dabbling in mobile sensor research and doing some consulting as asked.

  • VP Advanced Technology

    2013 - 2014

    Working with the technology and manufacturing teams.

  • Sole Proprietor

    2013 - 2013

    Working with imaging and sensing companies on new technology development.

  • Senior Director, Sensor Technology

    2011 - 2013

    My team develops sensing solutions for our products.

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.

Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.

  • Founder & CEO

    2008 - 2011

    pSiFlow integrates analytical data (for example water quality) aquired on mobile devices with realtime trending, treatment reccomendation and messaging.

  • Vice President of Technology

    1990 - 2008

    Responsible for all aspects of CMOS Imager Technology from Pixel to Process. Developed integrated fab process flow and delivered PDK to design team. Deployed new pixel and process technologies and validated them with in-house designed test vehicles. Transferred technologies from fab to fab.

  • Sr. Director of Product Technology

    2004 - 2008

    Process and Pixel R&D as well as other aspects of imaging technology.

  • Various over the years

    1990 - 2004

    Various positions of increasing responsibility in R&D developing exotic memory technologies and finally CMOS imager technology.

Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, SSD and CMOS image sensing chips.

Raised $6,150,410,400.00 from U.S. Department of Commerce.

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