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Toshihiro
Ichikawa
Vice President, Discrete Business Unit
Toshihiro Ichikawa was appointed vice president,
business development for TAEC's Discrete Business
Unit in October 2009. With more than 25 years
of experience within Toshiba Corp., Mr. Ichikawa
oversees strategic marketing and application
engineering operations for the company's discrete
devices. This includes strategic business planning
in addition to supervising TAEC's Discrete Business
Unit. Mr. Ichikawa oversees efforts to strengthen
TAEC's North American discrete market presence.
Under his leadership, TAEC's Discrete Business
Unit focuses on meeting customer needs with advanced
new products for high growth markets, capitalizing
on its world-class operations and seamless global
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Jay
Heinecke
Business Development Director, Discrete Business
Unit
Jay Heinecke is director of business development
for the Discrete Business Unit of TAEC, with
sales and marketing responsibilities for TAEC's
North American discrete product line, which includes:
power semiconductors, optoelectronics, microwave
and RF devices, logic and small signal devices.
Toshiba is the leading discrete semiconductor
supplier worldwide, and the company's devices
are designed to meet the growing demand for high-performance
and lower voltages in today's wireless telecommunications
and consumer electronics applications, as well
as the requirements of the automotive and industrial
markets. Mr. Heinecke joined TAEC in 1988, and
has held various sales, marketing, operational,
and product management positions during that
time up to his current position. He holds a Bachelor
of Arts degree in marketing from the University
of Wisconsin, and an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate
School, in Lake Forest, Illinois. |
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Steve
Vrablik
Director of Business Development, LCD Automotive
Display Products
Steven Vrablik is director of business development
for LCD Automotive Display products of the Display
Devices and Components business unit at Toshiba
America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC). His
responsibilities include overseeing the sales
and marketing of automotive display products
within the Americas. Since joining the company
in 1986, Vrablik has held several management
positions in the Display Devices and Components
business unit, and has been involved in a number
of strategic initiatives including the promotion
of TAEC's display product offerings. He has contributed
articles to Information Display magazine and
has spoken at numerous conferences. Vrablik earned
a bachelor's in industrial engineering from Northwestern
University , and a master's of business administration
from the University of Chicago. |
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Scott
Nelson
Vice President, Memory Marketing
Scott Nelson was appointed to the position of
vice president, memory marketing, in May 2007.
In this role, he is responsible for the sales
and marketing of TAEC's North American memory
product line, which includes MLC and SLC NAND
Flash-based storage solutions. Under his direction,
these products are targeted for use in three
major market segments, including removable data
storage in digital consumer applications, embedded
NAND solutions, and mobile electronics for OEM
customers. Mr. Nelson joined TAEC in 1986, and
he has held numerous sales, marketing and product
management positions since that time within the
company's memory business unit, leading up to
his current position. Nelson holds a Bachelor
of Arts degree in business and operations management
from California State University at Fullerton,
and an MBA from Pepperdine University. |
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LSI Business Unit |
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Shardul
Kazi
Senior Vice President and Technology Executive,
Systems LSI Group
Mr. Kazi is senior vice president and technology
executive for the System LSI Group at Toshiba
America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC). Mr.
Kazi is responsible for System LSI Group's two
Business Units - Logic LSI Business Unit and
Analog and Imaging Business Unit. His responsibility
includes management of business units, engineering,
finance, supply chain, strategic initiatives,
human resources and other support functions for
System LSI Group's operations as well as profit
and loss performance. As a technology executive,
he oversees the entire SLG engineering effort
including Standard Products engineering, SoC
Design Centers, and the Design Solution Groups.
Formerly he was the vice president of the Application
Specific Standard Products (ASSP) Business Unit
for TAEC and prior to that he was chief operating
officer and vice president at ArTile Microsystems,
Inc., a TAEC spin-off. Prior to TAEC, he has
held several senior management level positions
at companies such as Adaptec, SONY Microsystems,
MIPS Computer Systems, and AMD. |
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Andrew
Burt
Vice President, Analog and Imaging Business Unit,
System LSI Group
In this role, Andrew Burt is responsible for
all technical marketing and applications support,
including profit and loss activities, for the
following product lines: CCD linear image sensors,
CMOS image sensors, analog and peripheral products,
microcontrollers and RF devices. Prior to that,
he was director of the Imaging and Communications
Business Unit with responsibility for a wide
range of standard products based on various wireless
and camera technologies. Before that, he held
several other Toshiba America Electronic Components,
Inc. (TAEC) marketing positions with responsibility
for wireless communications products. Before
joining TAEC, Mr. Burt served in several marketing
and engineering capacities at GEC Plessey Semiconductors
in the U.K. and U.S. Prior to that, he was an
instrumentation and control engineer at Joint
European Torus (JET), a European-funded fusion
program. He went to engineering school at Oxford
in the U.K. and attended the Chartered Institute
of Marketing in London (U.K) for studies in principles
of marketing. |
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Rakesh
Sethi
Technology Executive, Head of Technology
and Product Planning, System LSI Group
Dr. Rakesh Sethi is technology executive, head
of technology and product planning for the
Logic LSI business unit and the Analog/Imaging
business unit in the System LSI Group for Toshiba
America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC).
He is responsible for managing all of SLG's
technology offerings, technology expansion,
market research, technology relationships and
management, and will play an integral role
in developing SLG's product roadmap to support
both the Analog and Imaging and the Logic LSI
business units while focusing on and ensuring
SLG's business continuity.
He began his career with TAEC in 1998 as senior
manager of business development. Mr. Sethi
was previously president of CShore Microelectronics
Corporation. Prior to that, he served as principal
technology manager of EEPROM-based PLD/CPLDs
at Cypress Semiconductor. Before that, he served
as section head of the Non-Volatile Memory
Group at National Semiconductor Corporation.
He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering
from Lehigh University and attained certification
from the Executive MBA Institute at Stanford
University. |
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