Goleta, Calif., United States:
Transphorm, Inc. (Nasdaq: TGAN)—a pioneer in and a world provider of excessive reliability, excessive efficiency gallium nitride (GaN) energy conversion merchandise—introduced as we speak the appointment of six firm leaders. The roles are being stuffed by firm veterans in addition to newly employed specialists, strategically constructing out Transphorm’s government bench. The collective gross sales, operations, engineering, and product advertising and marketing skillsets introduced by these people will contribute to Transphorm’s business development and buyer assist methods as the corporate responds to a quickly rising demand for top voltage GaN energy semiconductors throughout industries.
“The GaN power semiconductor field is an exciting one enabling significant efficiency savings with compact, cost-effective power converters and inverters. This challenges engineers and operational leaders alike to think beyond the status quo. The team we have assembled to date is comprised of passionate individuals who understand our role in the power electronics industry and deeply value what Transphorm offers customers and ecosystem partners. We are proud to have this strong team in place to lead the next phase of growth and innovation as we continue to deliver one of the highest performing, widest range of power GaN devices available today,” mentioned Primit Parikh, President and COO, Transphorm.
Appointments
Philip Zuk, appointed to Senior Vice President, Business Development and Marketing, has spent practically seven years supporting Transphorm in numerous capacities. He has been instrumental in creating relationships with marquis prospects and technical companions; defining merchandise and options; and establishing the corporate’s model picture whereas evangelizing its know-how. That information and expertise led to Philip enjoying a key supporting position in taking Transphorm public. He attracts on practically three many years of engineering expertise anchored primarily in energy semiconductors, having beforehand held engineering and advertising and marketing roles at Vishay (Siliconix), Microsemi PPG, Fairchild Semiconductor, and different main energy know-how corporations.
Sal Barlett just lately joined Transphorm as Senior Vice President, Operations. For practically three many years, Sal labored for onsemi the place he most just lately led the worldwide capability, capital planning, and technique groups. His management there enabled the corporate to greater than double its multi-billion-dollar annual income. Additionally, amongst different achievements, he acted as operations chief for numerous manufacturing facility acquisitions and divestitures transacted throughout his tenure. His duties known as for constant exploration and deep evaluation of operational wants adopted by the event and implementation of processes and provide options elementary to company development.
Likun Shen, a 15-year Transphorm veteran, has been appointed to Vice President of Engineering. He has beforehand served in a tool and product engineering management capability in addition to a Senior Member of Technical workers. His work has contributed closely to the design, fabrication, characterization, and qualification of Transphorm’s GaN platform and by-product merchandise. Notably, he led an initiative accountable for enhancing manufacturing yields whereas supporting reliability enchancment efforts amongst others. Early in his profession, Likun earned his Ph.D. on GaN gadgets and held the position of Assistant Project Scientist within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering on the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) working instantly with Transphorm’s co-founder and CTO Umesh Mishra.
Tushar Dhayagude, assumes an expanded position as Vice President of Worldwide Sales havingjoined 2021 because the Vice President of Field Applications and Technical Sales. He has develop into an integral member of the corporate’s management crew serving to strengthen Transphorm’s foothold within the adapter and choose excessive energy markets whereas aiding options partnership growth. He brings to this position greater than 25 years’ expertise in gross sales, advertising and marketing, and engineering roles—with greater than 18 years of that have particular to energy and semiconductor applied sciences. Prior to Transphorm, Tushar was Founder and CEO of GV Semiconductor Inc., an organization that produced GaN-on-Silicon energy HEMTs, controllers, and energy methods.
Vipin Bothra joins Transphorm as the corporate’s Vice President of Sales, North America and Europe. He brings to this position 25 years of expertise gained whereas at world semiconductor producer ST Microelectronics. He most just lately held the place of Industrial Sales Director, the place he was accountable for defining and executing go-to-market methods that finally yielded a 400 p.c business unit development throughout sectors from Aerospace and Energy to Automation and Healthcare. These methods drew on a diversified set of disciplines from partnership ideation and channel programming to cross-regional/cross-departmental collaboration on advertising and marketing marketing campaign growth and execution.
Peter Cheng joins Transphorm as the corporate’s Vice President of Product Marketing and Applications. His expertise spans managerial roles in design engineering and product advertising and marketing, culminating in his most up-to-date place as Senior Director, Power IC Product Line at Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Inc. Overseeing 5 product teams, he was instrumental in defining new product necessities and software standards together with creating viable product roadmaps. He brings to this position a multi-disciplined background—design engineering, software engineering, product engineering, advertising and marketing, and business growth—within the energy semiconductor trade.
About Transphorm
Transphorm, Inc., a world chief within the GaN revolution, designs and manufactures excessive efficiency and excessive reliability GaN semiconductors for top voltage energy conversion functions. Having one of many largest Power GaN IP portfolios of greater than 1,000 owned or licensed patents, Transphorm produces the trade’s first JEDEC and AEC-Q101 certified excessive voltage GaN semiconductor gadgets. The Company’s vertically built-in gadget business mannequin permits for innovation at each growth stage: design, fabrication, gadget, and software assist. Transphorm’s improvements are transferring energy electronics past the restrictions of silicon to attain over 99% effectivity, 40% extra energy density and 20% decrease system value. Transphorm is headquartered in Goleta, California and has manufacturing operations in Goleta and Aizu, Japan. For extra info, please go to www.transphormusa.com. Follow us on Twitter @transphormusa and WeChat @ Transphorm_GaN.
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