Chapman joined NuCORE Technology, Inc. in May of 2002 with over 20 years experience in semiconductor marketing, sales and management. Mr. Chapman was an employee of Transmeta Corp. from September 1997 until January 2002. In April 2001, he was promoted to Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Chapman was widely recognized for Transmeta's high profile product launch in January 2000. He was the architect of Transmeta's low power positioning strategy and the Crusoe processor branding in Japan. Mr. Chapman executed key design wins at Sony, NEC and Fujitsu that were announced in Japan in Q3 2000. Transmeta went public in November 2000. Prior to Transmeta, Mr. Chapman was recruited by Cyrix Corporation. After joining Cyrix as the Vice President of Marketing in November of 1991, Mr. Chapman launched Cyrix' first microprocessor, the CX486SLC, in April 1992. Cyrix went public in July 1993. Mr. Chapman was promoted to Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing in October 1993 and directed Cyrix to six quarters of revenue and EPS growth. Cyrix' x86 architecture was the first independently developed, non-Intel state-to-state identical, software-compatible processor. The Cyrix 486 architecture achieved 14 percent unit market share in the second half of 1994. Mr. Chapman joined Intel in April of 1981. During his 11-year career at Intel he held a variety of sales and marketing positions, including NVMD Worldwide Customer Marketing Manager (EPROM memory) from November 1984 until May 1986. He became Intel Asia Pacific Marketing Director in May 1986 and was based in Hong Kong. During that time revenues for the Asia region grew from $10 million to $300 million. Mr. Chapman then returned to Santa Clara, California, to become Marketing Director for the Entry Level Products Group (EPLG). He was responsible for the 80286, 80386Sx, 80386SL and AT chipset businesses. ELPG was approximately 25 percent of Intel's revenue in 1991. Mr. Chapman left in October 1991. Mr. Chapman attended the University of Illinois from 1967 to 1970 in Business. He founded Good Vibes Sound, based in Champaign, Ill., in 1971 and ran the business as CEO until December 1980. Good Vibes, an audio-video specialist retailer was a well recognized in the industry as creative merchandiser and is still in business to this day.