Technology >> CEO Interviews >> May 2, 2005

Steve Tirado – Silicon Image Inc (simg)

STEVE TIRADO, President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Image, Inc., has served in a number of capacities since joining the company in 1999, most recently as President of the storage division, and earlier as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of marketing and business development. Mr. Tirado hails from Sun Microsystems, where he served as Vice President of Marketing for the Thin Client Products Group, with responsibility for driving the marketing and sales development efforts required to establish Sun's thin client product family and associated server software in the marketplace. During his 13- year tenure at Sun, Mr. Tirado held senior positions in both sales and marketing, including Director of Product Marketing for Volume Desktops, General Manager of Sun Mexico, Regional Manager of Sales for Latin America and Product Line Manager for SPARCstation Desktop Products. Mr. Tirado received a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master's degree in Social Work from Boston University and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Profile
TWST: Can we start with an overview of Silicon Image and how you see the

company at this point?

Mr. Tirado: Silicon Image is a fabless semiconductor company that has

developed the enabling