Actel Names New Worldwide Sales Vice President Taps Former Sharp Executive.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 1996--John East, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Actel Corporation, today announced the appointment of Douglas D. Goodyear as the company's vice president, Worldwide Sales. Goodyear, a 17 year veteran of electronic systems and component sales, will join Actel on February 20, replacing M. Douglas Rankin who has chosen to retire after 10 years with the Company. Rankin will assist in the transition and remain with Actel in an advisory capacity. Doug Goodyear is vacating the position of vice president of North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Sales for Sharp Electronics in Camas, Wash., where he headed a 65 person direct selling Direct selling is the marketing of products or services to consumers through sales tactics including presentations, demonstrations, and phone calls. It is sometimes also considered to be a sale that does not utilize a "middle man" such as a retail outlets, distributors or brokers. organization that accounts for over $700 million in electronic component, disk drive, and CCD camera See digital camera. sales. During a four year period at Sharp, Goodyear grew sales four-fold while reorganizing the company's direct sales and industrial distribution network. Before joining Sharp, Goodyear held sales and sales management positions at Hitachi, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. and Signetics (now Philips Semiconductor). "Doug Goodyear has excellent systems and component selling experience and has successfully built and managed a rapidly growing sales function similar to Actel's. We are looking to Doug to help take Actel to the next level of customer satisfaction as we move toward the $500 million mark by evolving and growing the excellent organization and programs developed by Doug Rankin," East said when making the announcement. Goodyear holds a bachelor of science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree from the University of Nebraska in Industrial Management and Computer Science. Doug and his family will relocate to the Bay Area in the near future. About Actel Actel Corporation is the world's leading supplier of antifuse-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and associated software development tools. FPGAs are used by designers of voice and data communication, computer, medical and industrial control, and military/aerospace, and other electronic systems to differentiate their products and get them to market. Actel's proprietary, cost-effective antifuse architecture offers system size and performance advantages, as well as increased gate utilization and high level design efficiencies. Actel is dedicated to providing logic designers with the capability to move up to higher complexity designs with confidence. Actel is traded on the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on National Market under the symbol ACTL ACTL American College of Trial Lawyers (Irvine, California) ACTL Access Carrier Terminal Location ACTL Activation Library ACTL Automated Compatibility Test Laboratory ACTL Association Cultural Turkey-Luxembourg and is located at 955 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4533. Telephone: 408/739-1010. Internet address: http://www.actel.com CONTACT: Actel Corporation H. Buford Barr, 408/522-4368 buford@actel.com or Walt & Company Erin Curtis/Kellie DiNaro, 408/496-0900 |
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