Brian R. Bachman
Brian R. Bachman has served as a member of the Trident Board since May 2007. Mr. Bachman is a private investor and the Managing Partner of River Farm LLC. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Bachman served as Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Axcelis Technologies, which produces equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductors. Mr. Bachman also serves as a director of Kulicke & Soffa Industries, and Keithley Instruments. Mr. Bachman holds a B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago.
Richard L. Clemmer
Richard L. Clemmer has served as a member of the Trident Board since February 2010. Mr. Clemmer has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board of NXP Semiconductors since January 2009. Prior to joining NXP, Mr. Clemmer drove the turnaround and re-emergence of Agere Systems, the Lucent spin-out and a leader in semiconductors for storage, wireless data, and public and enterprise networks. He also served as Chairman of u-Nav Microelectronics, a leading GPS technology provider, and held a five-year tenure at Quantum Corporation where he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Quantum, Mr. Clemmer worked for Texas Instruments as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Clemmer holds a B.A. degree in Business Administration from Texas Tech University and an M.B.A. degree from Southern Methodist University. He also serves on the boards of NCR Corporation.
David H. Courtney (Chairman)
David H. Courtney has served as a member of the Trident Board since January 2008 and was appointed chairman in October 2009. Mr. Courtney became chief executive officer of JiWire, Inc. effective September 29, 2009. From September 2008 to September 2009, Mr. Courtney was an Executive in Residence at Venrock. Previously, he served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Adify, Inc. from September 2007 to August 2008. Prior to joining Adify, Mr. Courtney served in senior management positions at TiVo, Inc. from 1999 to 2006, most recently as Group Executive, Corporate Products & Services, Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors from 2005-2006, Executive Vice President Worldwide Operations and Administration, Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors from 2001-2005, Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer from 2000-2001, and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1999 to 2000. Prior to his tenure at TiVo, Mr. Courtney was a Managing Director, Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan & Co., and before that, a Vice President, Investment Banking High Technology Group at Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Courtney holds an A.B. degree in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University.
A.C. D’Augustine
A.C. D’Augustine has served as a member of the Trident Board since February 2010. Mr. D’Augustine is currently managing a private investment company. Since October 2004, he has also been chairman of Syntricity Corp., a privately-held semiconductor test software company located in San Diego, California. Mr. D’Augustine has over thirty-five years of senior management experience in the semiconductor technology system and software industries and has held various senior management positions in companies that include Texas Instruments, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Brooktree and Conexant. He initiated and built the AMCC telecommunications business, as a foundation to its initial public offering in 1998, and assembled and directed Conexant’s digital infotainment division prior to Conexant’s initial public offering in 1998. Mr. D’Augustine holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and an M.B.A. degree from Rutgers University.
Philippe Geyres
Philippe Geyres has served as a member of the Trident Board since February 2010. Mr. Geyres was CEO of Oberthur Card Systems, a French smart card company publicly listed on Euronext, Paris, during 2007 and 2008. Previously, he was from 1983 to 2006 with ST Microelectronics, most recently as Executive Vice-President, Consumer and Telecom Products after having held several management positions within Thomson-Semiconductors and SGS-Thomson, their predecessors in business. Before ST, Mr. Geyres was with Fairchild Semiconductor in Mountain View, CA as Operations Manager of the Bipolar Division, after having joined its parent company Schlumberger as IT Director for oil-field services. He began his professional career in 1974 with IBM at Corbeil-Essonnes. Mr. Geyres serves as a member of the board of directors of Advanced Digital Broadcast, a Swiss company listed in Zurich and of Arteris, a privately-held networking IP company in San Jose, California. Mr. Geyres graduated as an engineer from the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris in 1973.
Dr. J. Carl Hsu
Dr. J. Carl Hsu has served as a member for the Trident Board since April 2008. Dr. Hsu has served since October 2001 as Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at Peking University. From 1972 until his retirement in December 2003, he served in a variety of senior positions at Bell Laboratories (including AT&T and Lucent), most recently as President and CEO, Bell Laboratories Asia Pacific and China, headquartered in Beijing. His positions during this period also included service as President and CEO of Lucent’s Communications Software Group and as Executive Vice President, Advanced Technologies of Bell Laboratories. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Taiwan Mobile Co., Ltd. and Rogers Corporation. Dr. Hsu holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles.
David M. Kerko
David M. Kerko has served as a member of the Trident Board since February 2010. Mr. Kerko has been a Director of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. since December 2006. He was a Principal of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. between 2002 and 2006, having begun his career at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in 1998. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Kerko was with Gleacher NatWest Inc. Mr. Kerko holds a B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from The Wharton School, and a B.S.E. degree , summa cum laude, from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the board of Avago Technologies.
Raymond K. Ostby
Raymond K. Ostby has served as a member of the Trident Board since July 2006. Mr. Ostby has served as Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of ASSIA, Inc., a private emerging telecommunications infrastructure company, since January 2009. Mr. Ostby served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NextG Networks, Inc., a private emerging wireless infrastructure company, from January 2005 to May 2008 and as its Vice President, Administration from May 2008 to October 2008. From July 2003 until January 2005, Mr. Ostby was Vice President, Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer at Arraycomm, Inc., a provider of multi-antenna signal processing solutions, and since June 1999, he has been Vice President, Finance & Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at KBC Pharma, a privately held company. From September 1993 until May 1999, Mr. Ostby was employed as Vice President, Finance and Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at Quickturn Design Systems, Inc., a provider of system-level verification solutions. From September 1991 to September 1993, he served as Vice President, Finance and Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at Force Computers, Inc., a computer products company. From June 1985 to September 1991, he served as Vice President, Finance and Administration, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Atmel Corporation, a manufacturer of semiconductor products. Mr. Ostby has been a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.A. degree and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Montana, and completed Ph.D. coursework in Quantitative Analysis at the University of California at Berkeley.
Sylvia Summers Couder (Chief Executive Officer)
Sylvia Summers Couder has served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Trident Board since October 2007. She also served as Trident’s President from February 2008 to February 2010. Ms. Summers held several positions with Spansion, Inc. between 2003 and 2007, most recently as Executive Vice President of the Consumer Card and Industrial Division. Prior to joining Spansion, Ms. Summers served as Vice President and General Manager of the embedded business unit for Advanced Micro Devices’ Memory Products business. She has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Silvan Networks, Group Vice President and General Manager for the Public Access Management Network Services Group at Cisco Systems, Vice President and General Manager of the Multi-Platform Group at Storage Technology Corporation and in various senior-level management positions at Group Bull, Thomson CSF-RCM Division, and Matra Datasystems. She holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique Feminine in France and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.