He is a technically sophisticated executive with a consistent, results-proven background driving revenue and profit growth, defeating the competition, bringing worldwide sales campaigns to fruition, and sealing major business deals. He is also a deeply accomplished sales, marketing, and operations executive with 20 years of documented achievement complemented by multiple degrees in advanced technology. He has worldwide experience in large public (AMD and LSI Logic) companies, heading turnaround of failing companies (IMI and Palmchip), launching successful new business ventures (eASIC and WaferYield), and successful IPO (ARC). He is a veteran of the United States Army.