Brian R. Bachman has served as a member of the Trident Board since May 2007. Mr. Bachman is a private investor and the Managing Partner of River Farm LLC. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Bachman served as Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Axcelis Technologies, which produces equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductors. Mr. Bachman also serves as a director of Kulicke & Soffa Industries, and Keithley Instruments. Mr. Bachman holds a B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Bami Bastani was appointed as CEO and President and as a member of the Board of Directors in June 2011. He brings more than 20 years of experience as a CEO and senior executive in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Trident, Dr. Bastani was the Chairman and CEO of B2 Global Consulting, LLC, a management consulting firm. From 1998 to 2008, Dr. Bastani was President and CEO of ANADIGICS, Inc. Under his leadership, the company became a recognized innovator in semiconductor RF solutions for the wireless and broadband communications equipment markets. From 1996 to 1998, Dr. Bastani was Executive Vice President of Fujitsu Microelectronics, where he led the Systems LSI Group, including ASIC System-On-Chip, Local Area Networks, SPARC processors, and RFICs. Previously, he served for more than a decade at National Semiconductor where he held several key executive positions, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of the Embedded Technologies Division. Dr. Bastani serves as a member of the board of directors of SkyCross, Inc. He received a Ph.D. degree and an M.S.E.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University and a B.S.E.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas.
David H. Courtney
Chairman
David H. Courtney has served as a member of the Trident Board since January 2008 and was appointed chairman in October 2009. Mr. Courtney became chief executive officer of JiWire, Inc. effective September 29, 2009. From September 2008 to September 2009, Mr. Courtney was an Executive in Residence at Venrock. Previously, he served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Adify, Inc. from September 2007 to August 2008. Prior to joining Adify, Mr. Courtney served in senior management positions at TiVo, Inc. from 1999 to 2006, most recently as Group Executive, Corporate Products & Services, Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors from 2005-2006, Executive Vice President Worldwide Operations and Administration, Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors from 2001-2005, Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer from 2000-2001, and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1999 to 2000. Prior to his tenure at TiVo, Mr. Courtney was a Managing Director, Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan & Co., and before that, a Vice President, Investment Banking High Technology Group at Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Courtney holds an A.B. degree in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University.
A.C. D'Augustine has served as a member of the Trident Board since February 2010. Mr. D'Augustine is currently managing a private investment company. Since October 2004, he has also been chairman of Syntricity Corp., a privately-held semiconductor test software company located in San Diego, California. Mr. D'Augustine has over thirty-five years of senior management experience in the semiconductor technology system and software industries and has held various senior management positions in companies that include Texas Instruments, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Brooktree and Conexant. He initiated and built the AMCC telecommunications business, as a foundation to its initial public offering in 1998, and assembled and directed Conexant's digital infotainment division prior to Conexant's initial public offering in 1998. Mr. D'Augustine holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and an M.B.A. degree from Rutgers University.
Philippe Geyres has served as a member of the Trident Board since February 2010 and from January 2011 to June 2011 also served the company as Interim CEO. Mr. Geyres was CEO of Oberthur Card Systems, a French smart card company publicly listed on Euronext, Paris, during 2007 and 2008. Previously, he was from 1983 to 2006 with ST Microelectronics, most recently as Executive Vice-President, Consumer and Telecom Products after having held several management positions within Thomson-Semiconductors and SGS-Thomson, their predecessors in business. Before ST, Mr. Geyres was with Fairchild Semiconductor in Mountain View, CA as Operations Manager of the Bipolar Division, after having joined its parent company Schlumberger as IT Director for oil-field services. He began his professional career in 1974 with IBM at Corbeil-Essonnes. Mr. Geyres serves as a member of the board of directors of Arteris, a privately-held networking IP company in San Jose, California. Mr. Geyres graduated as an engineer from the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris in 1973.
Dr. J. Carl Hsu has served as a member for the Trident Board since April 2008. Dr. Hsu has served since October 2001 as Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at Peking University. From 1972 until his retirement in December 2003, he served in a variety of senior positions at Bell Laboratories (including AT&T and Lucent), most recently as President and CEO, Bell Laboratories Asia Pacific and China, headquartered in Beijing. His positions during this period also included service as President and CEO of Lucent's Communications Software Group and as Executive Vice President, Advanced Technologies of Bell Laboratories. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Taiwan Mobile Co., Ltd. and Rogers Corporation. Dr. Hsu holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Raymond K. Ostby has served as a member of the Trident Board since July 2006. Mr. Ostby has served as Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of ASSIA, Inc., a private emerging telecommunications infrastructure company, since January 2009. Mr. Ostby served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NextG Networks, Inc., a private emerging wireless infrastructure company, from January 2005 to May 2008 and as its Vice President, Administration from May 2008 to October 2008. From July 2003 until January 2005, Mr. Ostby was Vice President, Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer at Arraycomm, Inc., a provider of multi-antenna signal processing solutions, and since June 1999, he has been Vice President, Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at KBC Pharma, a privately held company. From September 1993 until May 1999, Mr. Ostby was employed as Vice President, Finance and Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at Quickturn Design Systems, Inc., a provider of system-level verification solutions. From September 1991 to September 1993, he served as Vice President, Finance and Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at Force Computers, Inc., a computer products company. From June 1985 to September 1991, he served as Vice President, Finance and Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Atmel Corporation, a manufacturer of semiconductor products. Mr. Ostby has been a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.A. degree and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Montana, and completed Ph.D. coursework in Quantitative Analysis at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Brian R. Bachman
Director
Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee