Michael Althar is vice president and general manager of Intersil's Specialty Products group. Previously Mr. Althar served four years as vice president of Marketing and Applications for Intersil’s Core and High Reliability products including military radiation hardened custom and commlink products serving the high reliability space medical and communications markets. Responsibilities in this role included establishment of Intersil's Bangalore India design center and leading corporate Reliability and Package Engineering organizations. Prior to that he served three years as vice president and plant manager of Intersil’s Ohio-based wafer fab operations. Mr. Althar came to Intersil from Harris Corporation where he spent 16 years in a variety of engineering and management roles including two years as director of product/test/assembly engineering at Harris' Malaysian assembly and test facility.
Mr. Althar holds a BSEE from Case Western Reserve University and a MSEM from Southern Methodist University. |