| |  |  | Tony Alvarez is President and Chief Executive Officer, and a member of our board of directors. Mr. Alvarez joined Leadis in November 2005 after 18 years at Cypress Semiconductor. From 1998 to 2005, Mr. Alvarez served as Senior Vice President Memory and Imaging Products Division at Cypress and was responsible for Cypress' SRAM, non-volatile memory and imaging products. During his tenure, he led the successful growth of their SRAM business in becoming a leading supplier, expanded the imaging business via acquisitions, and effectively incubated their specialty DRAM business. From 1989 to 2001, Mr. Alvarez served as Cypress' Senior Vice President of Research and Development, during which time he was responsible for all process technology development. Prior to joining Cypress in 1987, Mr. Alvarez held various technical engineering positions at Motorola, Inc. Mr. Alvarez holds bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
|  | | Ken Lee is Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and a member of our board of directors. Dr. Lee joined Leadis in August 2000. From 1985 until joining Leadis, Dr. Lee held various positions at Hewlett-Packard Company, including principal project engineer and manager. From 1994 through 1999, Dr. Lee served on the technical committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronics Packages. Dr. Lee holds a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
|  | | John Allen is our Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. Mr. Allen joined Leadis as Corporate Controller in January 2004 and was promoted to Vice President in March 2006 and to Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary in April 2007. Prior to joining Leadis, Mr. Allen served as the Corporate Controller of Asyst Technologies, Inc., a semiconductor equipment company, from January 2002 to January 2004. From May 2000 to January 2002, Mr. Allen was Vice President, Corporate Controller of Arcot Systems, a software company. Prior to that, Mr. Allen served in finance management roles at Xilinx, Inc., a semiconductor company, and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer. Mr. Allen holds a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of California.
|  | | Jose Arreola joined Leadis in January 2006 as our Executive Vice President, Engineering. Prior to joining Leadis, Dr. Arreola served as President and CEO of Kovio, Inc., a privately-held semiconductor company engaged in the emerging field of "printed electronics." From 1983 to 2001, Dr. Arreola served in various capacities at Cypress Semiconductor, most recently as Vice President of Process Technology R&D. In this position, Dr. Arreola was responsible for developing and maintaining Cypress' technology roadmaps and building and training a team of over 100 engineers. Prior to joining Cypress, Dr. Arreola held various engineering positions at UTMC, a start-up semiconductor division of United Technologies, and INMOS, a semiconductor start-up. Dr. Arreola holds a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana, and masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.
|  |  | Paul Novell joined Leadis in September 2006 as our Vice President of Sales and Marketing. As of early 2008 Mr. Novell is focused exclusively on the marketing role. Prior to joining Leadis, Mr. Novell served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Staccato Communications, a privately held supplier of wireless communication IC's. From 1994 to 2006, Mr. Novell served in various engineering, marketing and sales positions for Cypress Semiconductor. Most recently, he held the position of Managing Director for Asia-Pacific Sales and operations at Cypress, where he was responsible for a team consisting of sales, marketing, design and operations personnel. Prior to his tenure at Cypress, Mr. Novell worked for IBM as a design engineer. Mr. Novell holds bachelor and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.
|  |  | Eric Rosser is our Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Before joining Leadis, Mr. Rosser was Vice President of Sales at Staccato Communications, an ultrawideband semiconductor company. Before Staccato, Mr. Rosser was President and CEO of Arampa, a manufacturer of application intelligent access routers. In 1997, he joined Allot (Nasdaq:ALLT), an IP QoS company, and as President, helped grow the company from an early stage start-up to more than 120 employees with thousands of customers. Prior to Allot, Mr. Rosser managed Asia and Latin America for Tekelec (Nasdaq:TKLC). He has also held a variety of sales and engineering positions with Data General (NYSE:EMC) and DMR. Mr. Rosser holds a bachelor degree in engineering from Harvey Mudd College. | |
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