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September 2008 People Industry Veteran Shpock Becomes Vitec President STEPHEN W. SHPOCK, a twenty-four-year microwave industry veteran has joined The Vitec Group RF Systems (VGRFS) as president and managing director. VGRFS is a business unit of the Broadcast Systems Division of The Vitec Group, plc., comprised of Microwave Services Corp. (MSC), Nucomm, and RF Central. Shpock will oversee all three of these U.S.-based companies and be responsible for their... — Dawn Hightower August 2008 People Ansoft Chairman/CTO Receives IEEE Award DR. ZOLTAN CENDES, Ansoft Corporation founder, chairman and chief technology officer, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Distinguished Achievement Award. Cendes earned the award for his “contributions to the widespread use of user-friendly software tools for electromagnetic analysis and design.” The award recognizes outstanding... — Dawn Hightower July 2008 People TAYLOR W. LAWRENCE will succeed Louise L. Francesconi as president of Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) effective July 1. Francesconi will work with Lawrence as he transitions into his new role until her retirement on Sept. 1. Francesconi is retiring from Raytheon after 33 years with the company. Lawrence joined Raytheon in 2006 and formerly served as vice president of engineering, technology, and mission assurance at Raytheon Company headquarters (Waltham, MA), where... — Dawn Hightower June 2008 People Nitronex Names Sadler Principal Engineer DR. ROBERT A. SADLER has been named principal engineer for Nitronex. He has more than 27 years of industry experience in compound semiconductor device and process engineering. He most recently served as technical director, devices, for Northrop Grumman Corp., where he was responsible for the development of GaN technology. He also previously worked at RF Micro Devices as a principal scientist... — Dawn Hightower May 2008 People Raytheon Recognizes Employees As Missile-Defense Pioneers MICHAEL T. BORKOWSKI, technical director, Raytheon RF Components, and DAVID G. LAIGHTON, former chief engineer, Raytheon RF Components received the Missile Defense Agency’s Technology Pioneer Award at the 6th Annual US Missile Defense Conference in Washington, D.C. Borkowski and Laighton were honored for the development of affordable and reliable X-band, solid-state,... — Dawn Hightower April 2008 People Pinto da Silva Becomes President of RFS Brazil ROBERTO PINTO DA SILVA, formerly vice president of sales for Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) Latin America, has replaced Luis Antonio Alves de Oliveira as president of RFS Brazil. Oliveira leaves RFS to pursue new endeavors outside the telecom industry. Pinto is a mechanical engineering university graduate with an MBA in executive team... — Dawn Hightower February People Cookson Electronics Elevates Paul Lotosky Cookson Electronics has named Paul Lotosky global director-customer technical support. He will lead the coordination of the ALPHA(R) global customer technical support efforts as they relate to optimizing support for ALPHA(R customers and for the sales and new product development efforts. Cookson has 30 years of experience and understanding of ... — Dawn Hightower January 2008 People GSA Picks Tong For Board Of Directors The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has elected VINCENT TONG, vice president of worldwide quality and reliability engineering for Xilinx, to its board of directors. Tong has more than 20 years of experience in semiconductor development, design and manufacturing. The alliance also named Guillaume d’Eyssautier, picoChip president and chief executive officer, to its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Leadership... — Nancy Friedrich December 2007 People The Software Defined Radio (SDR) Forum has retained Lee Pucker to provide CEO services in a newly created consultancy position. Pucker formerly served as CTO and vice president for corporate development at Spectrum Signal Processing. Alion Science and Technology - DR. Charles Massey to director of port and maritime security; formerly international borders and maritime security program manager at Sandia National ... — Compiled by John Curley November 2007 People Circuit Images-DAN SPENCER to vice president of sales and marketing, responsible for all sales efforts throughout the US and Canada; formerly employed at Sanmina. CSR plc-JOEP VAN BEURDEN to CEO and membership on the board of directors; formerly CEO of NexWave, Inc. Interop Technologies-BRIAN MOORE to vice president of sales; formerly vice president of product marketing at ClearSky Mobile Media, Inc. BI... — Compiled by John Curley October 2007 People International Communications Group, Inc. (ICG)—Darrell Andregg to director of engineering; formerly director of firmware development at Axxcelera Broadband Wireless. Echolab Corp.—Tom Oriola to regional sales manager for the northern US and Canada; formerly sales engineer. Also, Mike Mitchell to regional sales manager for the Western US and Canada; formerly employed at VMI, Inc. iSuppli Corp.—David Carnevale to vice... — Compiled by John Curley September 2007 People Skyworks Solutions, Inc. has announced that Donald (Don) W. Palette has joined Skyworks as vice president and CFO. Palette most recently served as senior vice president of finance and controller of Axcelis Technologies, Inc. Harris Corp.—Brian A. Fitzpatrick to vice president of business development for the Civil Programs business of Harris Government Communications Systems; formerly corporate director... — Compiled by John Curley August 2007 People Newtec announced that it has named KRIS WARREYN as vice president for worldwide sales. Prior to joining Newtec, Kris Warreyn was the general manager of the French branch of Scientific Atlanta and the sales director for Southern Europe and Africa. See Associated Figure SiGe Semiconductor—PETER L. GAMMEL to chief technology officer (CTO); formerly vice president of engineering at a venture-backed start-up... — Compiled by John Curley July 2007 People iSLI Names Michael Kay As New Chairman The Board at iSLI, Institute for System Level Integration, announced that MICHAEL KAY has accepted the role of chairman. Previously, Kay founded and was managing director of the Motorola Technology Centre in Scotland. See Associated Figure PCTEL—BOB SUASTEGUI to vice president and general manager of global sales and marketing;... — Compiled by John Curley June 2007 People Nujira has named BERNARD MORGAN to the position of CFO. Prior to joining Nujira, Morgan worked for seven years at Celoxica. Before Celoxica, Morgan was vice president of finance for Europe at LSI Logic. See Associated Figure SiGe Semiconductor—SOHAIL KHAN to president and CEO; formerly entrepreneur in residence and operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, responsible for evaluating communications deals and... — Compiled by John Curley May 2007 People ITerra Communications has appointed DR. AVI KATZ as president, CEO, and member of the board of directors. Dr. Katz was previously president and CEO of Intransa. He also had been CEO of Equator Technologies. See Associated Figure Zarlink Semiconductor, Inc.—DR. ADAM CHOWANIEC to the board of directors; continues as chairman of the board of directors at Tundra Semiconductor. Quantam Leap Packaging,... — Compiled by John Curley April 2007 People Laurenson Is Appointed As picoChip's VP Of Engineering picoChip has named STEVE LAURENSON as its vice president of engineering. Laurenson joins picoChip from Agere Systems, where he served as Agere's Mobile Terminal Division's Technical Services director. He established Agere's European GSM Development Centre. See Associated Figure Telegenix, Inc.—JOE MILLER to the position of... — Compiled by John Curley March 2007 People IntelliCoat Technologies Names Lupone As President IntelliCoat Technologies has appointed JOSEPH ("JOE") LUPONE as president and CEO. Most recently, Lupone served as president of Reflexite Display Optics, a division of Reflexite Co., a maker of optical films for the LCD flat-panel-display industry. See Associated Figure Zebra Technologies Corp.—JULIANN LARIMER to vice... — Compiled by John Curley February 2007 People Adhesives Research Names Bennett As New President Adhesives Research, Inc. has promoted GEOFF BENNETT to the position of president. Bennett succeed Karen M. Olson. Most recently, Bennett assumed the role of COO with responsibility for the ARcare®, ARclad®, and ARmark™ divisions. RF Magic—ANGLEO STEPHANO to the position of senior vice president of marketing; formerly... — Compiled by John Curley January 2007 People Azimuth Systems, Inc. has named JIM IULIANO as the company's new CEO. Iuliano has been CEO for both public and private technology companies for more than a decade. Previously, Iuliano was CEO of E Ink Corp. See Associated Figure Xceive Corp.—RICH BEYER to the board of directors; continues as CEO and director of Intersil Corp. Tundra Semiconductor Corp.—TERRY NICKERSON to the board of directors;... — Compiled by John Curley  prev. page
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