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Johnston C. Chen / President and CEO
A seasoned executive with over 25 years experience in semiconductor and consumer electronics industry, Johnston has held management positions in engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and corporate management with P&L responsibility. Johnston has previously served as VP of Consumer Electronics Division as well as VP of Asia-Pacific Sales at ESS Technology. He was instrumental in ESS' transformation from pre-IPO into a NASDAQ listed company and became the world's largest supplier of PC Audio chips, and MPEG chips for VCD/DVD. After leaving ESS, Johnston became a senior advisor and consultant for CCID, a subsidiary of China's Ministry of Information Industry. Prior to founding PAM, Johnston was an Executive Partner at Crimson Venture, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital management company, focusing on the investment of semiconductor and electronics companies. He has also held various positions in Power IC design, product engineering, sales & marketing at several Silicon Valley companies, including IDT, PMI/ADI, and Siliconix/Vishay. Johnston holds a BSEE from San Jose State University and an MBA from Santa Clara University. |
Hideto Takagishi / Vice President of System Architect
Mr. Takagishi has over 25 year of system level architecture and design experience in complex mixed-signal analog/digital and power management ICs. His design and invention include the first Simple Switcher and various types of Class-D amplifiers. With nearly 20 years at National Semiconductor, Mr. Takagishi first worked as an FAE, then as a designer at its Japan Linear Design Center. He was later appointed as the Section Head of National Semiconductor's CLASIC Design team in Japan, and eventually moved to its Santa Clara headquarters to serve as Application Engineer for its Audio Division. After National Semiconductor, Mr. Takagishi joined Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) as a key member of the start-up team and was instrumental in its successful product roll-outs of Class-D audio amplifiers and PMIC. In his capacity as both the senior designer and application engineer, he helped secured major design wins in Japan and Korea, which was critical for MPS' IPO in 2005. Prior to joining PAM, Mr. Takagishi was the Engineering Manager at Pacific Technology Co. Ltd., a Hong-Kong based system design company. Mr. Takagishi has authored 9 U.S. patents with 3 additional patents pending and holds a Bachelor of Electronics Communication degree from Osaka Electronic Communications University. |
Richard L. Gray / Director of IC Design
With over 20 years of analog and power management IC design experience, Mr. Gray heads up the company's R&D office in Santa Clara, California. He was most recently the president of his own IC design consulting company, involved in design projects for PAM and several companies in both the U.S. and Taiwan. Prior to that, Mr. Gray was the General Manager of the U.S. R&D Center for Analog Micro Electronics (AME), where he managed a team of designers and layout engineers to deliver various power management ICs, including CCFL backlight controllers, references, multiple LDOs, shunt regulator, boost and buck regulators. His successful delivery of these volume production products resulted in the public listing of AME in Taiwan. Mr. Gray also held other technical design positions at Maxim Integrated Products, Elantec, and Teledyne. He has eight U.S. patents on file, with 4 additional patents pending. Mr. Gray holds a B.S.E.E. degree from U.C. Berkeley. |
Mike Hsinyih Chen, Ph.D. / Vice President of Manufacturing and Operation
Dr. Chen has over 25 years experience in semiconductor manufacturing, packaging, and reliability with extensive foundry and assembly relationships with vendors in the United States, Taiwan and China. He was most recently an Executive Vice President of Technology at Shanghai SIM-BCD, a China-based foundry, where he was responsible for the development of DMOS, BiCMOS, Bipolar, HV and BCD technology. Prior to SIM-BCD, he was Senior Director of Manufacturing and Operation at AplusFlash Technology, based in San Jose, responsible for its operation. Dr. Chen also worked at PMC, Winbond, ISSI, Fairchild, and National Semiconductor, in various engineering and management roles. Dr. Chen is considered an expert in the China foundry industry with his extensive involvement and working relationships with many of the foundries in China. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of New Mexico, and BS in Physics and EE from University of Chinese Culture in Taiwan. |
Albert Chang / Vice President of Asia-Pacific Sales and Marketing
Mr. Chang, with over 15 years working experience, has served in various functions, ranging from system design, field application, program management, product marketing and sales. Prior to joining PAM, Mr. Chang spent 7 years at Anpec Electronics, a public listed Taiwan analog IC design house. He was most recently the Director of Marketing, where he was responsible for the company’s strategy and business, including marketing, application engineering, program management, and Mar-com. Prior to that, he was the Director of Sales, responsible for worldwide sales channel and business logistic. Before Anpec, Mr. Chang worked for 6 years as Sales Manager at Vanguard Semiconductor, an analog wafer foundry house and memory manufacturer based in Taiwan. Mr. Chang started his earlier career as a system designer at Southern Information System, a telecom equipment maker in Taiwan. Mr. Chang graduated with a BSEE degree and MSEE degree from National Chiao Tung University. |
Tao-Sheng (DS) Wang / Director of Application Engineering
Mr. Wang spent his past 25 years in various management roles, including field support, system application, marketing, product management, product planning, and research, in the field of video display IC and systems. He was most recently Vice President of System Application at INFO Corporation, a maker of LCD-TFT driver ICs for LCD-TV. Before that, he was Vice President of Field Application Engineering at Premier Technology, a leading IC component distributor in Taiwan. Mr. Wang also worked at various engineering and product management roles at MRT, Novatek, Lite-On, and AOC/TopVision. He has extensive customer relationships at major TFT-LCD manufacturers for monitors and TV, as well as Notebook PC makers in Taiwan. He holds a BSEE degree from Taiwan's Chung-Yuan University. |
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