Technology >> CEO Interviews >> August 24, 2009
GANESH MOORTHY is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of
Microchip Technology Incorporated. Mr. Moorthy has 19 years of experience with
Intel, where he held engineering and management positions, including that of
General Manager of the 8/16/32 Microcontroller Division. He left Intel in August
2000 to become the CEO of Cybercilium, a small Tempe, Ariz.-based software
startup company. He joined Microchip as Vice President on November 26, 2001.
Originally from India, Mr. Moorthy came to the US as a student in 1979 and
became a US citizen in 1994. He has undergraduate degrees in physics and
electrical engineering, and an MBA in marketing. Profile
Mr. Moorthy: Microchip Technology was founded a little over 20 years ago, in
April of 1989. It was a spin-off from General Instrument prior
