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Sam has founded three technology companies and has 35 years of semiconductor experience in the areas of marketing, sales, strategic planning, design and general management. Prior to joining Contour Semiconductor, Sam worked with M&A firm IDL as a Sr. VP and as a consultant to several emerging companies. From 1995 - 2002, he served as the VP of Marketing for Hynix Semiconductor’s Flash Business Unit, where he directed the sales and marketing activities to grow the business profitably from start-up to over $100 million. Sam held senior management positions in marketing and sales at Etenna, Corsair Microsystems, Alliance Semiconductor, Performance Semiconductor, Flash pioneer Exel Microelectronics and Mostek. He also worked for Dataquest as the Director of worldwide memory research and Burroughs Corporation as a memory system design engineer and chaired the EIA/JEDEC standards committee for all memory. | 