Trident Microsystems Strengthens Management Team
Appoints Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President, Engineering
Santa Clara, Calif. — September 3, 2008: Trident Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRID), a leader in high-performance semiconductor system solutions for the multimedia and digital television markets, today announced the promotion of Dr. Hungwen (Wen) Li to Chief Marketing Officer and the appointment of Saeid Moshkelani as Trident’s Senior Vice President, Engineering.
“In our efforts to successfully drive change and achieve our long-term goals, we are pleased to announce two important changes to our executive team,” said Sylvia Summers, Trident’s Chief Executive Officer and President.
“Since joining Trident almost two years ago as Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Wen has been instrumental in contributing to our long-term product and market direction. In his new role, Wen will continue to drive the strategic direction of the company as the industry moves toward a connected TV platform, and assume responsibility for Trident’s digital TV marketing organization, including product definition and planning,” noted Ms. Summers.
“We are also very excited that Saeid has joined the Trident team. Drawing upon his extensive experience, and partnering with our video architecture team, he will be responsible for worldwide hardware and software engineering execution, increasing productivity and improving our SoC design process,” stated Ms. Summers.
Executive Biographies
Dr. Li joined Trident in January 2007 as Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing. 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.
Mr. Moshkelani, a veteran in semiconductor and systems development, joined Trident on September 2, 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.
About Trident Microsystems, Inc.
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