SAN JOSE, Calif., May 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced it has appointed Saar Gillai,
Ron Jankov, and Tom Lee to serve on the Xilinx Board of
Directors. The new members bring added diversity in industry,
technology, and market expertise aligned to Xilinx's growth
strategy.
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"We are pleased to appoint Saar, Ron, and Tom to the Xilinx
Board of Directors," said Dennis
Segers, chairman of the board at Xilinx. "Their leadership
and breadth of business acumen is very well suited to Xilinx's
market expansion initiatives."
About Saar Gillai
Saar Gillai brings over 20 years of
leadership and management experience in product development,
engineering, operations, and general management with
a variety of technology companies. Through his experience, Xilinx
will benefit from both technical expertise and strategic insights
on a variety of key markets and applications including cloud
technologies and processes in the enterprise and service provider
markets.
Saar currently serves as the Senior Vice President and General
Manager of Hewlett-Packard's Enterprise Communications Solutions
Business. Prior to assuming this role in September of 2015, Saar
served as the Senior Vice President, General Manager, and Chief
Operating Officer of Hewlett-Pcackard's Cloud Business.
About Ron
Jankov
Ron Jankov
brings extensive leadership experience in the semiconductor
industry, and a successful track record of growing businesses
through both organic and inorganic strategies. He has served
in senior management roles and on the Board of Directors of both
public and private semiconductor companies. Through his broad
knowledge of the industry, Ron will provide Xilinx unique and
valuable insights to help guide the company's strategic
investments.
Ron is the Chief Executive Officer of GlobalLink1 Capital, an
investment firm he founded in 2014. Prior to this role, Ron served
as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Processors and
Wireless Infrastructure for Broadcom Corporation. Previously, he
was President and Chief Executive Officer, and served as a Director
on the Board of NetLogic Microsystems. During his tenure, NetLogic
Microsystems grew from start-up to market leadership in network
processing devices, culminating in its acquisition by Broadcom in
2012.
About Dr. Tom Lee
Dr.
Lee brings a unique blend of technical expertise pertaining to many
of the technology trends shaping the growth of markets Xilinx
serves, along with entrepreneurial experience, and the creation of
innovative programs in a variety of markets. His extensive
knowledge will provide insights that will help to further shape the
company's strategic research and development plans for emerging
applications.
Dr. Lee is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1994 and founded the Stanford
Microwave Integrated Circuits Laboratory. He has co-founded three
startup companies: Matrix Semiconductor, Inc. (later acquired by
SanDisk), ZeroG Wireless (later acquired by Microchip Technology),
and Ayla Networks.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading provider of All
Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely
enables applications that are both software defined and hardware
optimized – powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing,
SDN/NFV, Video/Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless. For more
information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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Xilinx
Silvia E.
Gianelli
(408) 626-4328
silvia.gianelli@xilinx.com
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