Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 13, 2000
WILLIAM WEIR is Vice President, Marketing, of Power X Networks Inc. Mr.
Weir brings over 20 years of semiconductor experience and almost 30
years in the electronic components field to Power X Networks. As a
member of the executive staff, his responsibilities include product
marketing and roadmap definition, strategic planning, and corporate
marketing worldwide. Prior to joining Power X, Mr. Weir served as
Product Line Manager for Agilent Technologies, where he directed the
marketing efforts of the Network Products Operation. His
responsibilities included strategic and tactical marketing management
for all standard and ASIC IC products spanning the Networking, Server,
and Storage Area marketplaces. Mr. Weir joined HP/Agilent from SEEQ
Technology, where he was Director of Worldwide Marketing. As a member of
the corporate staff responsible for product direction, he successfully
repositioned the company in the Fast Ethernet Physical Layer
marketplace, complementing SEEQ's strong position in Layer 2 media
access controller technology. Prior to SEEQ, Mr. Weir was Founder and
Vice President of the Data Communications Business Unit and a corporate
officer at Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS), where his team designed and
introduced the first single chip CMOS 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet PHY
transceiver in 1996. During his five years at ICS, Mr. Weir was involved
with Ethernet and ATM communications technologies, and high-performance
clock generation products. Mr. Weir has also held senior management
positions in marketing, sales, and engineering for Sprague Semiconductor
Group/Allegro Microsystems, Solid State Scientific, Inc., and Ford
Electronics. He holds a BSEE from Bucknell University and an MSE from
Pennsylvania State University. He has co-authored an article on high-
voltage CMOS processes, and has been a past member of various IEEE
committees, as well as the IEEE and AES societies. Profile
Networks?
Mr. Weir: Power X was founded in 1996 by a team of R&D scientists from
ICL Labs, a Fujitsu company, in
