Technology >> CEO Interviews >> June 9, 2003
DENNIS L. SEGERS is Chief Executive Officer and President of
Matrix Semiconductor, Inc., and has served on Matrix's Board of
Directors since 1999. 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. In 1986, National Semiconductor
(formerly Fairchild) hired Mr. Segers to rebuild and refocus a
large 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 startup, 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 served
as a Vice President and General Manager for three years before
moving to Xilinx. Mr. Segers graduated from Texas A&M University
and holds four US patents. He has served in a variety of industry
groups including the SIA Technology Strategy Committee and the
ISSCC Technical Program Committee. Profile
Matrix Semiconductor and an overview of things as they are now.
Mr. Segers: Matrix's roots can be traced back to a
