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Sylvia Summers CouderChief Executive Officer -
Sylvia Summers Couder has served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Trident Board since October 2007. She also served as Trident's President from February 2008 to February 2010. Ms. Summers held several positions with Spansion, Inc. between 2003 and 2007, most recently as Executive Vice President of the Consumer Card and Industrial Division. Prior to joining Spansion, Ms. Summers served as Vice President and General Manager of the embedded business unit for Advanced Micro Devices' Memory Products business. She has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Silvan Networks, Group Vice President and General Manager for the Public Access Management Network Services Group at Cisco Systems, Vice President and General Manager of the Multi-Platform Group at Storage Technology Corporation and in various senior-level management positions at Group Bull, Thomson CSF-RCM Division, and Matra Datasystems. She holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique Feminine in France and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Christos LagomichosPresident -
Christos Lagomichos joined Trident as President in February 2010. Previously, from September 2007 to February 2010, Mr. Lagomichos was Executive Vice President and General Manager of NXP Semiconductor's Home Business unit where he was responsible for leading a business unit that created system solutions and AV components for digital consumer electronics applications, including TV, set-top boxes, PC TV and security technology. From 1995 to 2006 Mr. Lagomichos held several senior engineering roles with STMicroelectronics, most recently as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Home Entertainment & Displays Group. Prior to joining StMicroelectronics, he held a variety of engineering positions with Siemens. Mr. Lagomichos has a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Technical University of Munich.
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Christophe CheneSenior Vice President and General Manager, TV Business Unit -
Mr. Chene joined Trident in January 2009 as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and assumed the role of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Trident's TV Business Unit in February 2010. Previously, he was at Xilinx, serving most recently as its Vice President, Global Business Development during 2008. From 2005 to 2008, he served first as Senior Director, Marketing and Applications in the General Products Division at Xilinx, and from 2007 to 2008 as Vice President and General Manager, Micro Scale Products Division at Xilinx. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Chene served as Senior Director, Integrated Circuits Marketing at Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas. Prior to that, he was with Texas Instruments, Inc., serving as Director, Digital Control Systems Business Unit, DSP Group, from 2000 to 2002, and in a variety of marketing manager, product marketing engineer or application engineer positions at Texas Instruments from 1990 to 2000. Mr. Chene holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Automatic Control Electronics and Electronic Engineering from the Institut National Des Sciences Appliquées in Toulouse, France.
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Dr. Hungwen LiSenior Vice President of Greater China -
Dr. Li joined Trident in January 2007 as Chief Marketing Officer and assumed the role of Senior Vice President of Greater China in February 2010. Prior to Trident, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Huahong International, serving from 2005 through December 2006. From 2000 to 2002, he was the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of RedSwitch, a company that provided InfiniBand switches to connect enterprise servers, storage and networking gears. He was Vice President and General Manager in Agilent from 2003 to 2005 through Agilent's acquisition of RedSwitch. Previously, he served in multiple senior positions at companies such as HAL Computer Systems/Fujitsu, IBM Research Center and RCA. Dr. Li holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
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Pete J. ManganExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer -
Mr. Mangan joined Trident in January 2008. Previously, he was at Spansion from July 2005 to January 2008 and served in various financial positions including Director of Finance. From December 2004 to May 2005, he served as Vice President of Finance and Administration for Compxs. From December 2002 to December 2004, he was the Director of Finance for Asyst Technologies, Inc. Previous to Asyst, Mr. Mangan held senior financial positions at Advanced Micro Devices, Form Factor, Trident Microsystems, Real Chip Communications and Genesis Microchip. He holds a B.A. degree in Business/Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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Saeid MoshkelaniExecutive Vice President of R&D -
Mr. Moshkelani joined Trident in September 2008. Prior to Trident, he served as Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Dust Networks from 2006 to 2008. Mr. Moshkelani also served as Vice President, Engineering and Operations, Consumer Division from 2001-2006 for LSI Logic and Sr. Vice President, Engineering and Operations from 1998 to 2001 for C-Cube Microsystems, which was acquired by LSI Logic. From 1987-1998, Mr. Moshkelani held several engineering positions with VLSI Technology, including Director of Design Technology. Mr. Moshkelani began his career at AMI in Semi-Custom Group from 1984 to 1987. Mr. Moshkelani holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University.
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Mark NewtonVice President of Operations -
Mr. Newton joined Trident in February 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Newton was Home Operations Manager for NXP Semiconductors between 2005 and 2010. Previously, he served in a variety of worldwide business Operations roles within Philips Semiconductors from 1988 to 2005, including Supply Chain Manager, Quality Manager, Product & Test Engineering Manager, Supplier Manager and Manager of an assembly/test factory. He started his career working for Philips Semiconductors as a product Engineer between 1985 and 1988. Mr. Newton holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salford, UK. He also holds a Management Studies diploma from the University of Portsmouth, UK.
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Patty RileyVice President of Information Technology -
Patty Riley joined Trident Microsystems in February 2010. Prior to Trident, Ms. Riley served as Senior Director of North America Information Technology for NXP Semiconductors from 2005 to 2008. She joined NXP in 2001 with the Philips Electronics divestiture of their Semiconductor division. During her tenure with NXP Semiconductors from 2001 to 2005 she held a variety of IT management positions where she was responsible for global information technology migrations of strategic acquisitions. Before that, Ms. Riley worked for Philips from 1979 to 2001 in a variety of IT and Sales management roles. Ms. Riley holds a Master of Science degree in Systems Management from the University of California, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco.
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David L. TeichmannExecutive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary -
Mr. Teichmann joined Trident in April 2007. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of GoRemote Internet Communications, Inc., serving from 1998 until its acquisition by iPass, Inc. in 2006. Previously, he served in various positions at Sybase, Inc., including Vice President, International Law as well as Director of European Legal Affairs based in The Netherlands. Earlier, Mr. Teichmann was Assistant General Counsel for Tandem Computers Corporation, handling legal matters in Asia-Pacific, Japan, Canada and Latin America. He began his legal career as an attorney with the Silicon Valley-based Fenwick & West LLP. Mr. Teichmann holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from Trinity College, an M.A.L.D. degree in Law & Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and a J.D. degree from the University of Hawaii School of Law. He was also a Rotary Foundation Scholar at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where he did post-graduate work in Latin American Economics and Law.
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Paul SandbergSenior Vice President of Worldwide Sales -
Mr. Sandberg joined Trident from NXP semiconductors in February 2010. From 2006 to 2010, Mr. Sandberg was Senior Vice President of NXP Semiconductor's BU Home Sales and Marketing Manager. In this role, he was responsible for the worldwide sales of BU Home for TV, STB and TV FE, and was also responsible for managing the Digital TV Product Line. From 1989 to 2006, Mr. Sandberg held a variety of senior roles, including Senior Vice President of Philips Semiconductor's BU Home (which was sold to NXP in 2006), Head of Corporate Alliances, acting Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Sagem Communications (SA), which purchased Philip's BU Fax division, Senior Vice President and Business Unit Manager of Philips Internet Fax Activity and General Manager of Philips PC Peripherals. Mr. Sandberg holds a degree in Business Economics from the University of Tilburg.
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Dirk WieberneitRegional Vice President of EMEA and India -
Mr. Wieberneit joined Trident in May 2009 as Chief Technology Officer and assumed the role of Regional Vice President, EMEA and India in February 2010. Prior to Trident, he served in a variety of positions with Micronas GmbH starting in October 2000, most recently as Vice President R&D Consumer Division and General Manager from October 2005 to May 2009. From 1991-2000, Mr. Wieberneit held several engineering positions with Infineon Technologies and Siemens AG Semiconductor Group. Mr. Wieberneit holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Electronic Design and Telecommunications from the University of Bochum in Germany.
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Sylvia Summers CouderChief Executive Officer
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Christos LagomichosPresident
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Christophe CheneSenior Vice President and General Manager, TV Business Unit
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Dr. Hungwen LiSenior Vice President of Greater China
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Pete J. ManganExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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Saeid MoshkelaniExecutive Vice President of R&D
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Mark NewtonVice President of Operations
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Patty RileyVice President of Information Technology
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David L. TeichmannExecutive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
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Paul SandbergSenior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
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Dirk WieberneitRegional Vice President of EMEA and India

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