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Gilbert F. Amelio, Ph.D.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Amelio serves as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Jazz
Semiconductor, as well as its parent company, Jazz Technologies,
Inc. In August 2005, Dr. Amelio co-founded Acquicor Technology,
Inc., and in February 2007, Acquicor merged with Jazz Semiconductor
and Acquicor changed its name to Jazz Technologies. Since 2001,
Dr. Amelio has been a Senior Partner of Sienna Ventures, a venture
capital firm, and, since 2003, he has been the President and Chief
Executive Officer of Prexient Micro Devices, Inc., a fabless semiconductor
company. From 1999 to 2005, he was Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Beneventure Capital, LLC, a venture capital advisory
firm. From 1997 to 2004, he was a Principal of Aircraft Ventures,
LLC, a consulting firm. From 1999 to 2004, he served as Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of AmTech, LLC, a high technology angel
investment and consulting services firm. From 1996 to 1997, he served
as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Apple Computer, Inc.,
a personal computers manufacturer.
From 1991 to 1996, Dr. Amelio served as a Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of National Semiconductor Corporation, a semiconductor company.
From 1988 to 1991, he served as President of the Rockwell Communications
Systems division of Rockwell International Corporation, a semiconductor
manufacturing division that was later spun-off as Conexant Systems,
Inc. From 1983 to 1988, he served as President of the Rockwell Semiconductor
Products unit of Rockwell International. From 1971 to 1983, he held
various staff, managerial and executive positions at Fairchild Camera
and Instrument Corporation, a semiconductor and photography products
company, most recently in the role of Vice President and General
Manager of its MOS Products Group. Dr. Amelio received his Ph.D.,
M.S. and B.S degrees in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Amelio is a director of AT&T Inc. (formerly SBC Communications,
Inc.), a telecommunications company, and an advisor to both the
Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor,
a hub targeted at attracting multinational corporations in the global
information and communication technology industry. He is also a
Director and Trustee of the American Film Institute.
Paul A. Pittman
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Mr. Pittman has been Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative
Officer since March 2007, and Chief Financial Officer since February
2007. Previously, he was a Partner and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions
at ThinkEquity Partners LLC. Prior to that, Mr. Pittman held various
titles including President, CEO, COO and Director of Homesphere,
Inc., and TheJobsite.com, which merged into Homesphere, an internet
services and software provider for the homebuilding industry. He
was also Head of Emerging Markets M&A at Merrill Lynch in London,
where he was responsible for origination and execution of all M&A
business in the region (Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Former
Soviet Union and Africa). Prior to Merrill Lynch, he was Director
of M&A at Wasserstein Perella & Co. in New York and London.
He began his career at Sullivan & Cromwell as an Associate in
M&A. Mr. Pittman graduated from the University of Illinois with
a BS in Agriculture, received a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard
University, and a JD with Honors from the University of Chicago
Law School.
Allen R. Grogan
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Mr. Grogan has been Chief Legal Officer and Secretary since February 2007 and a Senior Vice President since March 2007. From 2000 until 2006, he was Vice President Corporate Development, General Counsel and Secretary at Viacore, Inc., a provider of B2B supply chain solutions, where he managed and coordinated all of the company's legal work as well as identified, evaluated and executed strategies to acquire technology and create value through alliances and partnerships. Viacore was acquired by IBM Corporation in 2006. From 1984 until 2000 Mr. Grogan was a Partner in the Los Angeles law firm Blanc Williams Johnston & Kronstadt, where as a business lawyer he represented a number of public and private companies and individuals in the computer, online and high technology industries. While in private practice, Mr. Grogan co-founded in 1984 The Computer and Internet Lawyer (originally entitled The Computer Lawyer), a monthly publication of Aspen Publishing Law & Business, served for fifteen years as its co-editor-in-chief, and continues to serve as a consulting editor. Mr. Grogan received an A.B. from Oberlin College with honors in psychology, an M.A. in communications management from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the University of Southern California School of Law.
Susanna Bennett
Senior Vice President and Assistant Chief Financial Officer
Mrs. Bennett was appointed Senior Vice President and Assistant Chief Financial Officer in January 2008. She joins Jazz with over 20 years of leadership experience, primarily in the Finance organizations of high technology companies.
Most recently, Mrs. Bennett was a CFO partner at Tatum LLC focusing on M&A and IPO assignments in China. Previously, she was CFO of eEye Inc., a network security software company. Prior to her role as a Transition Executive at IBM Corporation, she was CFO of Viacore Inc., a supply-chain software and services provider, from start-up to its acquisition by IBM. She was also on the management-buy-out team that found Printrak International Inc., a fingerprint identification systems provider, where she held multiple executive roles including VP Finance & Admin and executed restructurings, IPO and M&As. Prior to the buy-out, she was Corporate Controller of De La Rue Printrak Inc., which was formerly a technology group of Rockwell International Inc.
Mrs. Bennett earned an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University and a BA with honors in Business Administration Accounting from CSUF. She has completed executive programs at UCLA, Harvard and MIT and is the Orange County Chapter 07/08 President of Financial Executive International.
Nabil Alali
Vice President of Newport Beach Operations
Mr. Alali has been Vice President of Operations since April 2006.
He held several key positions with Jazz, formerly serving as General
Manager, Newport Beach Operations, and Executive Director of Fabrication
& Equipment Engineering. Previously, Mr. Alali held roles as Equipment
Engineering Director and Photolithography Production Manager for Conexant
Systems, Inc., from April 1994 to March 2002. While at Conexant, he
was responsible for the implementation of several equipment improvement
programs, Fab yield improvement programs, new product introduction
to fabrication, and key manufacturing excellence productivity improvement
programs, as well as leading several manufacturing-wide cost reduction
and restructuring initiatives.
Before joining Conexant, Nabil held various positions in production
and manufacturing engineering at Rohm & Haas Electronic Materials
from 1986 to 1994. Mr. Alali received his M.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering from California State University, Long Beach. He has completed
an Executive MBA Certificate program from the Graduate School of Management
at the University of California, Irvine.
Andy Chan
Vice President of Corporate Development and Purchasing
Mr. Chan was appointed Vice President of Corporate Development
and Purchasing in December 2007. He joined Jazz in 2003 to lead
Supply Chain Management and Information Technology and has also
managed the company's China foundry partner relationships. Most
recently, he served as Executive Director, Purchasing and Corporate
Development. Prior to Jazz, Mr. Chan was Vice President of Business
Operations and Supply Chain Management for Mindspeed Technologies
and in 2000, he served as Vice President of Supply Chain Management
at Conexant Systems.
Previously, Mr. Chan's focus was in aviation and aerospace services.
He served in diverse management roles at Eastern Airlines, Continental
Express and most recently at Allied Signal (now called Honeywell)
as Sr. Director of Strategic Business Development. He has broad
based technical and management experience in engineering, planning,
information systems management, business development and supply
chain management.
Mr. Chan earned a B.S. degree in Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical
University and an MBA with a specialization in Computer System Management
and Operations Research from Nova University. He also holds a Jurisprudence
Doctorate (J.D.) degree from South Texas College of Law.
Chuck Fox
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Mr. Fox was appointed Vice President of Sales and Marketing in July
2007. He has over 25 years experience in the semiconductor industry
providing executive leadership with strategic, operational and marketing
responsibilities. His diverse background includes senior positions
at industry leaders Intel and Xilinx coupled with extensive fabless
startup experience in the wireless, networking and multimedia markets
with DSP, FPGA, ASIC and High Speed Analog Mixed-Signal technologies.
Previously, Mr. Fox was CEO of KeyEye Communications, a fabless
analog-intensive mixed-signal semiconductor company. He also served
as President and CEO of Chameleon Systems, a high performance DSP
processor company and Vice President of Marketing for Cradle Technologies,
a multi-processor DSP chip company. Mr. Fox was instrumental at
Xilinx in growing it from a small private company into a multi-billion
dollar industry FPGA leader both as Vice President of Worldwide
Marketing and as Division General Manager. He also spent 10 years
in various management positions at Intel.
Mr. Fox earned both BSEE and MBA degrees with honors from the University
of Wisconsin, Madison and completed the AEA Executive program at
Stanford University.
Bala Govender
Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
Mr. Govender was appointed Information Technology Executive Director,
and Chief Information Officer in April 2006. He also served
as Executive Director of Information Technology at Jazz from May,
2004 to March, 2006.
Prior to this, he held the position of Executive Director of Information
Technology at Mindspeed Technologies and Conexant Systems. He joined
Rockwell Semiconductor Systems in 1996 and served as Director, Information
Technology, with responsibilities for Core Business Processes and
Applicable Systems. Before joining Rockwell, Mr. Govender spent 15 years at Unilever
South Africa (Pty) Ltd. He held various positions in Sales, Supply
Chain, Marketing, Finance, and Information Technology. He served
as Commercial Officer for 4 years, and his last assignment was Team
Leader, Business Process Reengineering and SAP applications. Mr.
Govender received his Bachelors in Accounting Science from the University
of South Africa.
Daniel Lynch
Vice President of Human Resources
Mr. Lynch has served as Vice President of Human Resources since
March 2002. He was Conexant's Executive Director of Employee Relations
from January 1999, responsible for all employee and labor relations
activity, as well as health, safety and workers' compensation initiatives.
During his 26-year career with Conexant and Rockwell International,
Mr. Lynch has been responsible for all major elements of human resources
including staffing, compensation, training, performance management
systems and employee communications. Mr. Lynch received his bachelor's
degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles,
and earned a master's degree in Industrial Relations from George Washington
University.
Jeff McHenry
Vice President of Executive Operations and Quality
Mr. McHenry was appointed Vice President of Executive Operations
in July 2007. He has served in various positions with Jazz since
its inception, most recently as Vice President of Customer Solutions
& Supply Chain Management since December 2003. From March 2002
to December 2003, he was Executive Director of Marketing.
Prior to Jazz, Mr. McHenry was Conexant's Director of Foundry Services.
He held various positions in business planning and product marketing,
and served as Director of Supply Chain Management where he was responsible
for driving company-wide forecasts, balancing supply/demand requirements
for both internal and external customers, and achieving customer
delivery performance metrics. He played a key role in the development
of the Jazz initial business plan and strategy, as well as the establishment
of initial customer engagements. Mr. McHenry also directed the implementation
of the company's infrastructure to support the new foundry model.
Mr. McHenry holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and a master's
degree in Business Administration from the University of California,
Irvine. He has completed numerous courses as a part of Stanford's
continuing education executive programs.
Marco Racanelli, Ph.D.
Vice President of Technology and Engineering, Aerospace/Defense General
Manager
Dr. Racanelli has been with Jazz Semiconductor since its inception
in 2002 and has been Vice President of Technology and Engineering
since 2003. His responsibilities include leading technology development,
modeling, design automation and design service teams. Prior to this
appointment he held several posts of increasing responsibility in
the area of technology development with Jazz and previously with
Conexant and Rockwell Semiconductor Systems. In these positions,
Dr. Racanelli helped establish industry leadership in SiGe and BiCMOS
technology, and was instrumental in building a strong design support
organization.
Prior to joining Rockwell in 1996, Dr. Racanelli worked at Motorola
where he contributed to bipolar, SiGe and SOI development for Motorola's
Semiconductor Products Sector. He holds over 30 US patents and has
authored or co-authored more than 40 technical publications.
Dr. Racanelli received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical
and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and his
B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.
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