Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 7, 2002
NATHAN ZOMMER, Chairman, CEO and President of IXYS Corporation,
graduated from the Tel Aviv University with a BSc and MSc in Physical
Chemistry in July 1973. In 1977 he graduated with a PhD in Electrical
Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
from 1977 to 1979, he was a Member of the Hewlett Packard R&D Labs in
Palo Alto, California. He did research in the areas of HV-MOS
technology, photoelectric devices for laser printers and X-ray
lithography. In 1979, he founded AEC Corp., which was acquired by
Intersil Corp., doing work on Power Mos devices and HVICs. He served as
Intersil's director of the Power Mos division. In 1981 he was
instrumental in the acquisition of Intersil by General Electric
Corporation, during which period he received numerous awards for
management and technical achievements. Dr. Zommer co-developed and co-
authored the first technical paper on the IGBT technology, with Dr. J.
Baliga. In 1983, he founded IXYS Corporation in Silicon Valley, and by
Sept. 1998, he took the company public by an acquisition of Paradigm
Tech. Corp. Dr. Zommer has served in his career as consultant to
numerous VCs and Fortune 100 companies in the area of semiconductor
device research. He has published more than 30 technical articles in
scientific and technical periodicals. He was awarded more than 20 US and
foreign patents. Profile
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Mr. Zommer: IXYS was founded to address the needs of the power
electronic industry, both in power conversion
