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Founder, EVP, Business Development and General Manager, Embedded Systems Business Unit. A co-founder of Socket, Mr. Gifford initially served as a Director. Subsequently, he served as President and CEO from 1992 to 1994 and as Executive Vice President since 1994. Prior to Socket, Mr. Gifford was a Director, Board Member and Director of Sales & Marketing for Tidewater Associates, a computer consulting and computer product development company. He also co-founded and was President of Gifford Computer Systems, a computer network integration company which was sold to publicly held Zitel Corporation in 1984. Mr. Gifford holds a B.S. with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
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