Gordon Campbell

Gordon “Gordie” Campbell brings a wealth of experience and expertise in founding, building and successfully launching a wide range of technology-based enterprises. He has repeatedly taken early-stage concepts from start-up to high volume revenue and profits, creating over $5 billion of market value in the process.

Early in his career, Campbell served as Intel’s first Corporate Marketing Manager followed by taking over the company’s largest division. He departed Intel and founded his first company, SEEQ Technology, developing the industry’s first Ethernet chip. Following SEEQ, he was the founder, chairman and CEO of CHIPS and Technologies. There, he developed the fabless semiconductor model, and CHIPS and Technologies became the first fabless semiconductor company. In acknowledgement of this success, Campbell became known as the “Father of the Fabless Model”, which is currently over half of a nearly $500 billion semiconductor market. At CHIPS, Campbell was also instrumental in pioneering the PC-compatible computer marketplace that his early customers such as HP and Dell now dominate. As a result of his achievements at CHIPS, Mr. Campbell was named Inc. Magazine’s 1989 “Entrepreneur of the Year”.

In his successful tech-based career, Campbell has also served on the board of directors for 3COM, Bell Micro, and Palm. He has founded, invested, and taken active roles with several highly successful start-ups, including 3dfx Interactive, Cobalt Networks, HotRail, NetMind, PortalPlayer and Resonate.

In honor of his repeated successes and his role in developing the fabless semiconductor model, the FSA named Campbell as the 2007 recipient of the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award.