Francis Lee
President & CEO
Francis F. Lee has been a director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of our company since January 1999. He was a consultant from August 1998 to November 1998. From May 1995 until July 1998, Mr. Lee served as General Manager of NSM, a Hong Kong-based joint venture between National Semiconductor Corporation and S. Megga. Mr. Lee held a variety of executive positions for National Semiconductor from 1988 until August 1995. These positions included Vice President of Communication and Computing Group, Vice President of Quality and Reliability, Director of Standard Logic Business Unit, and various other operations and engineering management positions. Mr. Lee is a director of Foveon, Inc. Mr. Lee holds a Bachelor of Science degree, with honors, in electrical engineering from the University of California at Davis.
Russ Knittel
Executive VP, CFO, Secretary and Treasurer
Russell J. Knittel has been Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, Secretary, and Treasurer of our company since November 2001. He served as the Vice President of Administration and Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary of our company from April 2000 until October 2001. Mr. Knittel served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Probe Technology Corporation from May 1999 to March 2000. He was a consultant from January 1999 until April 1999. Mr. Knittel was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Starlight Networks from November 1994 to December 1998. Mr. Knittel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from California State University at Fullerton and a Masters of Business Administration from San Jose State University.
Tom Tiernan
Executive Vice President & General Manager
Thomas J. Tiernan has been Executive Vice President and General Manager of our company since March 2006. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Tiernan served as Vice President and General Manager of Symbol Technologies' Mobile Computing Division. From 1985 to 2004, Mr. Tiernan held various management and executive positions at Hewlett-Packard, including running the Network Storage business in the Americas, the Enterprise Systems business in Asia Pacific, and the PC business in Japan. Mr. Tiernan holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University and a Masters of Science in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.
Shawn Day, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
Shawn P. Day, Ph.D. has been the CTO of our company since July 2007. He served as the Vice President of Research and Development of our company from June 1998 until June 2007, the Director of Software Development from November 1996 until May 1998, and as Principal Software Engineer from August 1995 until October 1996. Dr. Day holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Doctorate, both in electrical engineering, from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Joe Montalbo
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Joe Montalbo has been the Senior Vice President of Engineering for our company since January 2008. From April 2005 until November 2007, Mr. Montalbo served as President, CEO and board member of Pixim, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company marketing image sensing products into the security market. From June 1978 until April 2005, Mr. Montalbo was at National Semiconductor Corp., serving in various roles in the ASIC, design automation, analog, displays and microcontroller groups. His last role there was as Vice President and General Manager of National's Custom Solutions Group, where he also served on the board of directors of Validity Sensors, Inc. Mr. Montalbo holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union in New York.
Wen-Shone Shiau
Vice President of Synaptics Taiwan
Wen-Shone Shiau has been the Vice President of Synaptics Taiwan since April 2007. Mr. Shiau served nine years as the Director of Asia-Pacific PC Marketing for National Semiconductor. At AMD, Mr. Shaui was the Taiwan Country Manger and previously a FAE manager. He holds both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.
Mark Vena
Vice President of Notebook Business
Mark Vena has been the Vice President of Synaptics' Notebook Business Unit since April 2007. He has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience with many of the technology industry's premiere companies. Most recently, Mr. Vena served as the Vice President of Marketing for Alienware Corporation. Prior to joining Dell as the Director of Digital Home and Dimension desktop business in 2002, Mark was the Director of SMB Product Marketing and Director of North America Access Business Group at Compaq. He had previously been the Director of Compaq's successful Consumer Desktop CTO (Configure to Order) business in the Consumer Products Division. Mark joined Compaq in February 1993. Prior to Compaq, Mark held various marketing-oriented positions at Epson America, IBM Corporation and NYNEX. Mark graduated Cum Laude from Boston College in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.
Kin Cheung
Vice President of Product Development
Kin Cheung has been the Vice President of Product Development of our company since September 2006. From 1994, Mr. Cheung has held various management positions at First International Computer including Senior Vice President of Research, Development, and Product Marketing. From 1992 to 1994, he served as Director of System Assurance at Unisys. From 1978 to 1992, he held various technical and management positions of increasing responsibilities at Wang Laboratories, leading to the Director and General Manager of Wang's Microsystems Division. Mr. Cheung holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.
Ruth Lutes
Vice President of Customer Care and Quality
Ruth Lutes has been the Vice President of Customer Care and Quality of our company since May 2007. Prior to joining our company, Ms. Lutes served as Director of Quality for Hewlett Packard's Workstation business for 5 years followed by 4 years as Director of Total Customer Experience for HP's Storage business. From 1982 to 1997, Ms. Lutes held a number of technical positions in Hewlett Packard including manager of R&D Program Management. Ms. Lutes holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Colorado.
Doug Kahn
Vice President of Supply Chain Management
Douglas L. Kahn has been the Vice President of Supply Chain Management of our company since August 2007. Prior to joining Synaptics, Mr. Kahn served as Senior Director of Supply Chain Operations at Palm, a mobile computing company, where he was responsible for end-to-end fulfillment operations and supply chain design. From 1988 to 2005, Mr. Kahn held various management and executive positions at Hewlett-Packard, including running supply chain planning operations for the worldwide Enterprise Storage business and supply chain development for Enterprise and Industry Standard Systems for the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Kahn holds a Bachelors degree in Life Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master of Science degree in Geophysics and an MBA in Finance both from the University of Chicago.
Alex Wong
Vice President of World Wide Operations
From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Wong served our company as Managing Director of Hong Kong and Director of Operations. Prior to joining Synaptics, Mr. Wong held various management positions with National Semiconductor, including General Manager for National Joint Ventures in China and Hong Kong as well as the Director of Corporate Business Development. Mr. Wong holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from California State University at Northridge and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of East Asia, Macau.
James Harrington
Vice President of Global Human Resources
James B. Harrington has served as Vice President of Global Human Resources of our company since July 2005. He was Vice President of Human Resources for BroadVision from 2000 to 2005. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Harrington provided Human Resource consulting and leadership to emerging companies in the technology sector. Previously, Mr. Harrington held leadership roles with Norand, Panda Management, Capitol Records, Syncor International, Allied/Signal and Rockwell International. Mr. Harrington holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Mt. Mercy College and a Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
Dave Long
Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Dave Long has been the Vice President of Sales of Synaptics since January 2008. Prior to joining Synaptics, Mr. Long served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Consumer Products at LSI Logic Corporation where he directed the management of sales and customer support for standard and custom silicon solutions. From 2003 to 2006, he served as the Vice President of Asia Pacific Sales focused on the Consumer and Storage product segments. He was the Director of NA-West Sales for LSI Operations from 2002 to 2003. Mr. Long also managed LSI's worldwide account with Cisco Systems from 1998 until 2002, directing an extended team of sales, engineering, marketing, operations, and customer service representatives. Before his time with LSI Logic beginning in 1987, Mr. Long served as an account Manager at National Semiconductor. Mr. Long received a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration/Marketing Management from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo in 1985.
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