AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2007--Silicon
Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq:SLAB), a leader in high-performance,
analog-intensive mixed-signal ICs, announced today the addition of two
key leaders to the management team, Carlos Garcia and Mark Thompson.
Mr. Garcia will be the general manager of the company's access product
business, which includes the company's market-leading voice and modem
products. Mr. Thompson will be general manager of the broadcast audio
business, which includes the company's very successful FM tuner and
transmitter product lines.
Prior to joining Silicon Labs, Mr. Garcia spent more than ten
years with LSI/Agere where he was most recently the vice president of
system and field application engineering for the networking and
storage products group. Through various management roles at Agere, Mr.
Garcia demonstrated his results-oriented leadership by consistently
growing revenue profitability, developing emerging businesses and
advancing the customer footprint in new markets. Prior to joining
Agere, Mr. Garcia served as director of telecommunications products
for Harris Semiconductor. He also held several design management roles
establishing remote design centers and supporting the development of
linear and data acquisition IC products.
"Carlos' breadth in strategic planning, product marketing, design
and application engineering for products addressing the wireline and
wireless access and edge markets is directly aligned with our desire
to fully maximize the potential of our voice and modem businesses,"
said Dave Bresemann, vice president and general manager of wireline
products. "Carlos will be a tremendous asset as we focus on growing
our market share in this key business."
Mr. Thompson joined Silicon Labs in 2000 as a product manager for
the company's first product, the silicon DAA. Mr. Thompson was
promoted in 2002 to director of marketing for all wireline products.
Mr. Thompson was instrumental in identifying new product areas and
expanding the wireline customer base, which contributed to doubling
business unit revenue. In 2006, Mr. Thompson became the director of
marketing for the broadcast group, helping to drive the strategic
direction for the new product line and building the marketing
infrastructure to diversify the audio business. Prior to joining
Silicon Labs, Mr. Thompson held product management roles at BMC
Software and Freescale Semiconductor.
"Mark has a proven track record of translating early product
success into sustainable, growing businesses," said Tyson Tuttle, vice
president and general manager of broadcast products for Silicon
Laboratories. "His leadership and drive will enable us to focus on the
customer diversification and product line expansion we are targeting."
Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Silicon Laboratories is an industry leader in the innovation of
high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Developed by a
world-class engineering team with unsurpassed expertise in
mixed-signal design, Silicon Labs' diverse portfolio of highly
integrated, easy-to-use products offers customers significant
advantages in performance, size and power consumption. These patented
solutions serve a broad set of markets and applications including
consumer, communications, computing, industrial and automotive.
Headquartered in Austin, TX, Silicon Labs is a global enterprise
with operations, sales and design activities worldwide. The company is
committed to contributing to our customers' success by recruiting the
highest quality talent to create industry-changing innovations. For
more information about Silicon Labs, please visit www.silabs.com.
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