Executive Management Team


Sylvia D. Summers, Chief Executive Officer and President

Dr. Donna M. Hamlin, Vice President, Human Resources and Administration

Hungwen Li, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Walter Lin, Senior Vice President, Application Engineering

Pete J. Mangan, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Saeid Moshkelani, Senior Vice President, Engineering

David L. Teichmann, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Sylvia D. Summers
Chief Executive Officer and President
Ms. Summers joined Trident in October 2007. She held several positions with Spansion, Inc. between 2003 and 2007, most recently as Executive Vice President of the Consumer Smart 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. Ms. Summers holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytecnique Feminine in France and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Donna M. Hamlin
Vice President, Human Resources and Administration
Dr. Hamlin joined Trident in January 2008. From August 2004 to December 2007, Dr. Hamlin was at Asyst Technologies, Inc., most recently as Vice President, Human Resources and Organizational Development. Dr. Hamlin held a consulting position with Trimble Navigation between 2002 and 2004, working on corporate strategy. Prior to consulting for Trimble Navigation, Dr. Hamlin has served in numerous executive positions at companies such as SiteROCK Corporation, Associates First Capital Corporation, Texaco and General Electric, and headed a private consulting practice serving multinational clients for 14 years. Dr. Hamlin holds a B.A. degree in Humanities from Siena College, a M.S. degree in Communication and a Ph.D. degree in Organizational Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Hungwen Li
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Dr. Li joined Trident in January 2007. Prior to Trident, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Huahong International, a company that provided strategic corporate business services including technology acquisition, partnership development and business incubation, serving from 2005 through December 2006. From 2000 to 2005, he was the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of RedSwitch, a company that provided InfiniBand switches to connect enterprise servers, storage and networking gear. Previously, he served in multiple senior positions at companies such as HAL Computer Systems/Fujitsu, IBM Research Center and RCA. Dr. Li holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

Walter Lin
Senior Vice President, Application Engineering
Mr. Lin joined Trident in April 1999. Prior to Trident, he served in engineering management roles with Paradise Electronics and Genoa Systems Inc. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.


Pete J. Mangan
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Mangan joined Trident in January 2008. Previously, he was at Spansion from July 2005 to January 2008 and served in various financial positions including Director of Finance. From December 2004 to May 2005, he served as Vice President of Finance and Administration for Compxs. From December 2002 to December 2004 he was the Director of Finance for Asyst Technologies, Inc. Previous to Asyst, Mr. Mangan held senior financial positions at Advanced Micro Devices, Form Factor, Trident Microsystems, Real Chip Communications and Genesis Microchip. He holds a B.A. degree in Business/Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Saeid Moshkelani
Senior Vice President, Engineering
Mr. Moshkelani joined Trident in September 2008. Prior to Trident, he served as Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Dust Networks from 2006 to 2008. Mr. Moshkelani also served as Vice President, Engineering and Operations, Consumer Division from 2001-2006 for LSI Logic and Vice President, Engineering and Operations from 1991 to 2001 for C-Cube Microsystems, which was acquired by LSI Logic. From 1997-1998, Mr. Moshkelani held several engineering positions with VLSI Technology, including Director of Design Technology. Mr. Moshkelani began his career at AMI where he served as Design/Product Engineer, Semi-Custom Group from 1984 to 1987. Mr. Moshkelani holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University.


David L. Teichmann
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Mr. Teichmann joined Trident in April 2007. Most recently, he was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of GoRemote Internet Communications, Inc., serving from 1998 until its acquisition by iPass, Inc. in 2006. Previously, he served in various positions at Sybase, Inc., including Vice President, International Law as well as Director of European Legal Affairs based in The Netherlands. Earlier, Mr. Teichmann was Assistant General Counsel for Tandem Computers Corporation, handling legal matters in Asia-Pacific, Japan, Canada and Latin America. He began his legal career as an attorney with the Silicon Valley-based Fenwick & West LLP. Mr. Teichmann holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from Trinity College, an M.A.L.D. degree in Law & Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and a J.D. degree from the University of Hawaii School of Law. He was also a Rotary Foundation Scholar at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where he did post-graduate work in Latin American Economics and Law.