FIRDAUS ABDULLAH JOINS SILTERRA AS VICE PRESIDENT OF CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS


Kulim, Malaysia, April 26, 2007 – Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. today announced the appointment of Firdaus Abdullah as Vice President, Corporate Development and External Affairs. Firdaus will oversee all corporate development and external affairs in Silterra’s worldwide operations. He reports directly to Eg Kah Yee, Chief Executive Officer of Silterra.

“Silterra has its uniqueness and strengths,” said Eg Kah Yee. “We want to be able to leverage our corporate strengths to expand our values to our customers, partners and our share holders. In addition, we want to actively plan a leadership and an important role in the building of the industry and the market. Firdaus’s achievements and experience in principal investments, mergers/acquisitions, and corporate development will help Silterra in realizing our new vision and deliver our business results.”

Firdaus was most recently a Partner at 1st Corporate Technologies, a London-based corporate finance house specializing in technology M&A and business development in Europe and the US. Previously, he was a venture capitalist with IDG Ventures Europe and MSC Venture. He has led and executed investment transactions in technology companies in North America, Europe, and Asia, and has played key roles at all stages of company growth from formation to exit. Prior to that, he was a Chevening Technology Enterprise Fellow at the University of Edinburgh where he co-founded an EDA startup and worked on commercializing academic research in microelectronics. Firdaus has also served at MDeC in Malaysia, where he was involved in implementing national-level strategic initiatives in the technology space.

Mr. Abdullah’s early career was as a design engineer at Intel Corporation in California. He has also worked at two communications device companies. His engineering experience covers the development of integrated graphics chipsets and broadband modems.

“I am very impressed with the current vision for Silterra,” said Firdaus. “Going forward, I believe our business strategies, manufacturing operations and R&D capabilities will create positive value for Silterra and our shareholders. I look forward to driving our corporate development activities towards achieving these positive results.”

Firdaus earned his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California, and an MBA with Distinction from Oxford University in the United Kingdom. 

About Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.:

Market demand driven, SilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a semiconductor wafer foundry offering major foundry compatible CMOS logic, high-voltage and mixed-signal/RF technologies down to 0.13-micron feature size. This includes complete, competitive contract manufacturing for fabless and IDM customers’ designs. SilTerra’s wafer fab has a design capacity of 40,000 eight-inch wafers per month.
Environmentally vigilant, SilTerra delivers award winning, world-class performance to its customers seeking flexible capacity, competitive advantages and around the clock customer support. SilTerra is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certified. Founded in 1995, the company’s headquarters and factory are located in Malaysia’s Kulim High-Tech Park, and SilTerra has sales and marketing offices in San Jose (California) and Hsinchu (Taiwan). For additional information on SilTerra or its services, please visit www.silterra.com.