Jeff leads product marketing for Altium 365 and has over 20 years of experience as a Product Manager at companies that develop electro-mechanical products. They include engineering design firms and OEMs in automotive, consumer electronics, and automated manufacturing equipment. He has worked with R&D researchers, development teams, and manufacturing, moving dozens of products from concept to production.

Majdi Thouabtia’s background is in electrical engineering, with several years of experience in hardware development and technical project management. He has worked across the full hardware lifecycle, from EMC-compliant circuit design and PCB layout to prototyping, testing, and production. Throughout my career, Altium Designer has been a key tool in his daily work, so he is especially proud to now be part of the team behind it.

Before joining Altium, he contributed to projects in the EV charging and IoT sectors, leading development efforts and collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Martin Malenica has a masters in electronic and computer engineering at the University of Zagreb. His previous experience consists of multiple embedded systems positions at robotics start-ups (Gideon with USD 35m in Seed and Series-A funding) and SMEs. His engineering strengths lie in system architecture, PCB design and embedded programming. Aside from engineering, Martin has spent the last 1.5 years working at a leading European management consulting firm, where he focused on strategies to support large OEMs and Tier-1s regarding the current semiconductor shortage across the whole EMEA region. Martin has practical experience within AD, but also a good understanding of competitor tools, especially on the procurement and supply chain side, like Everstream, Resilinc, Silicon Expert, Z2Data etc. Martin Joined Altium in 2023 as part of the Technical Sales team in Germany.
 

Natalia holds a Master’s in Electronic Design and brings nearly 15 years of experience in hardware design, testing, and field applications engineering. Her expertise includes high-level hardware architecture, schematic capture, board bring-up, and debugging. Comfortable in the lab and in customer-facing roles, Natalia has spent the last three years providing technical guidance in PCB and 3D design for Additive Manufactured Electronics (AME). Her role includes pre and post sales support, along with onboarding training for new users.