Mr. Rodriguez joined the Company as a Director in October 2005. Mr. Rodriguez has nearly 20 years of engineering sales and senior management experience in the semiconductor and electronics industry. He is currently President and CEO and a Director of Xpedion Design Systems Inc. a private VC-backed company focused on electronic design automation solutions for use in designing wireless communication circuits and systems where he has served in those positions since May 2000. Prior to joining Xpedion Mr. Rodriguez held senior management positions in sales and marketing at Escalade Corporation which provided software for chip design until its acquisition by Mentor Graphics. He also held senior sales management positions at LSI Logic a semiconductor company as well as product management and process engineering positions at Aerojet Electronics an aerospace systems company; Teledyne Microwave a microwave systems and sub-systems company; and Siliconix a semiconductor company. Mr. Rodriguez holds an MBA from Pepperdine University an MSEE from California Polytechnic University and a B.S. in chemical engineering from California Institute of Technology.
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