2006 Press Releases
KEVIN BLIGH JOINS SILTERRA AS VICE PRESIDENT OF WORLDWIDE
SALES AND MARKETING
INDUSTRY VETERAN TO FOCUS ON GROWING SILTERRA’S CUSTOMER
BASE
Kulim, Malaysia (April 17, 2006) – Silterra Malaysia
Sdn. Bhd. today announced that semiconductor industry veteran
Kevin Bligh has joined the company as Vice President of
Worldwide Sales and Marketing. He is based in the company’s
corporate headquarters in Malaysia and reports directly to
Bruce Gray, Chief Executive Officer of Silterra. In his role
as the top corporate sales executive, Bligh oversees
Silterra’s worldwide sales and marketing activities.
“Kevin has a lot of experience and excellent high level
connections in the industry,” said Bruce Gray. “He has a
successful track record of growing major accounts at prominent
semiconductor companies, and his leadership will help us
expand our customer base globally.”
Kevin Bligh has over twenty-five years of experience in the
industry. Prior to joining Silterra, he was the Vice President
of Sales and Marketing and Chief Financial Officer of Silicon
Design Solutions, a design intellectual property supplier
based in Fremont, California. Bligh had also held sales
executive positions at LSI Logic Corporation and Intel. He
holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Business
Administration degrees.
“Silterra has a very well defined strategic plan and is
executing it beautifully,” said Kevin Bligh. “We have the
key process technologies and capacity in place. We also have
some exciting customer products in the pipeline. I am very
pleased to have this wonderful opportunity to take the company
through the next growth phase.”
Steve Della Rocchetta will remain as Executive Vice President
and will focus on strategic projects and will provide
consultation to the sales and marketing team.
Gray added: “Steve has done an outstanding job in growing
the business and building the sales, marketing and technical
support teams from scratch. We greatly appreciate his
significant contributions to Silterra and everything that he
has done for the company. With global wafer foundry
utilization rate at high levels, this is a good time for Kevin
to step in and take the baton from Steve.”
Silterra has customers in the United States, Korea, Taiwan and
Japan. The company has sales offices in the Silicon Valley
(California) and Hsinchu City (Taiwan) as well as partners to
support customers in Japan, Korea and Europe.
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.
Silterra
Contact
Koh Meng Kong
Tel:
+6-012-491-0425 (Cell phone)
Tel:
+604-401-4166 (o)
Email: mengkong_koh@silterra.com
Lu Ping Chiang
Tel : +886-3-574-1587 (o)
Email:
pingchiang_lu@silterra.com
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