Dennis Segers

DENNIS SEGERS is President and CEO of Matrix Semiconductor A highly
regarded leader in the semiconductor industry, Dennis Segers has played
an active role in guiding Matrix Semiconductor’s development. He has
served on Matrix’s Board of Directors since 1999, and in September 2001,
Mr. Segers became Matrix’s CEO and President. Prior to joining Matrix
full time, Mr. Segers served as the Senior Vice President and General
Manager of the Advanced Products Group at Xilinx where he is credited
with growing a multi-billion dollar business. Among other successes, Mr.
Segers oversaw the development and introduction of the Virtex family of
FPGAs, the most successful programmable logic family in the industry’s
history. In April 2000, he was elected to the Xilinx Board of Directors.
A 25-year industry veteran, Mr. Segers began his career at Mostek
Corporation as a Product Development Engineer for Mostek’s 16K DRAMs.
Over nine years, Mr. Segers managed memory product engineering, design,
and technology development for Mostek. In 1986, National Semiconductor
product development organization introducing advanced BiCMOS memory ICs.
He was promoted to Product Line Director for the High Performance Memory
Group before leaving in 1988 to join a start-up, Summit Micro Circuits,
as President and Co-Founder. Summit specialized in contract design of
high performance memory products and was profitable from its inception.
In 1990, Benchmarq Microelectronics acquired Summit and Mr. Segers
became a Vice-President and General Manager for three years before
moving to Xilinx. Mr. Segers graduated from Texas A&M University and
holds four U.S. patents. He has served in a variety of industry groups
including the SIA Technology Strategy Committee, and the ISSCC Technical
Program Committee.