Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 15, 2002
PASCAL E. SPOTHELFER has been a Director of Spectrum Signal Processing
Inc. since March 1999 and was appointed President and CEO in January
2000. Prior to his appointment at Spectrum, he was the Senior Vice
President, Strategic Development at Teekay Shipping (Canada) Ltd. From
1994-1998, Mr. Spothelfer served as the Chief Operating Officer and
later President and CEO of NovAtel Inc., a high-tech company specialized
in global positioning systems. In his four years at NovAtel, he
restructured the company by selling off non-sustainable business units
and focusing on the GPS business, which he took public in 1997. Before
moving to Canada in 1994, Mr. Spothelfer was involved first as a
management consultant and then as a member of the executive team in the
turnaround of Jenoptik AG in Germany. Jenoptik emerged from the former
Carl Zeiss Jena, one of the largest high-tech conglomerates in communist
Eastern Germany, which was completely restructured after reunification
and is today a publicly traded company on the Frankfurt stock exchange.
Mr. Spothelfer holds a Master of Law degree and a PhD in law from the
University of Basel, Switzerland, and a Master of Business
Administration from INSEAD in Fontainebleau in France. Profile
a picture of what the company is doing now?
Mr. Spothelfer: The company was founded in 1987 as a distributor of
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