Mike is a high-performance executive and industry leader in the Semiconductor IP, Embedded Software and Consumer Electronic industries with exemplary strategic marketing, product management and business development experience. He is a creative strategist with expertise in leveraging technical and business acumen to drive products to market while growing relationships with key partners and customers. Demonstrated success in ensuring engineering, marketing and sales objectives are met, while growing revenues and meeting financial objectives. Natural leader and relationship-builder; widely and deeply networked with top global companies and industry influencers.
Mike also served as Vice President of Engineering at Cadence Design Systems, and Compression Labs, where he was involved in the divesture of the broadcast products division to General Instruments, as well as Director of IP for VLSI Technology, where he was involved in the formation of ARM Ltd. Mike holds a B.S. (Hon) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
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