Technology >> CEO Interviews >> May 24, 2004
DOUGLAS M. MITCHELL served as Simtek's Chief Operating Officer from July
1, 1997 until January 1, 1998, at which time he became Chief Executive
Officer, President and a Director. Mr. Mitchell has over 25 years of
experience in the semiconductor and electronics systems industry,
holding various marketing and sales management positions. Before joining
Simtek, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of a wireless
communications company, Momentum Microsystems. Prior to this Mr.
Mitchell was Vice President of Marketing with SGS-Thomson
Microelectronics, responsible for marketing and applications engineering
of Digital Signal Processing, transputer, microcontroller and graphics
products in North America. SGS-Thomson had acquired Inmos Corporation
where Mr. Mitchell had been Manager, US Marketing and Sales. Mr.
Mitchell has held management positions at Texas Instruments and Motorola
and has been responsible for various product definition and product
development. Mr. Mitchell holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Texas and a Master's of Business
Administration degree from National University. Profile
Mr. Mitchell: Simtek was founded in 1987 as a fabless semiconductor
company. The term 'fabless' in our industry means that we subcontract a
portion of the manufacturing
