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Bernard Marren is currently the President and CEO of OPTi, Inc., a company that licenses intellectual property for logic chips. He is also the Chairman and Founder of Quorum Systems, Inc., a private fabless semiconductor manufacturing company that develops highly integrated RF transceivers, and a Director of u-Nav Microelectronics Inc., another private RF semiconductor company that delivers low-power chipsets for battery-powered global positioning systems.
In a career that spans more than 40 years, Mr. Marren was both a founder of and the top executive with multiple companies that pioneered new semiconductor technologies. He also served as chief executive with a number of high-tech firms, widely regarded for his leadership in sales and marketing, engineering and operations. He has been associated in his career with, among other companies, Western Micro Technology, Inc., Silicon Engineering, Inc., INNO COMM Wireless, American MicroSystems, Inc., and Fairchild Semiconductor.
Extending his executive leadership to the electronics industry as a whole, Mr. Marren was a founder and the first President of the Semiconductor Industry Association. He is also a past President and Chairman of the National Electronic Distributors Association and a past President of the Electronic Industry Show Corporation.
Mr. Marren is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology (BSEE). | 