Tony Alvarez Joins the Board of the Directors of Validity Sensors; Semiconductor Industry Veteran Brings Operations and Strategic Experience to Innovative Biometric Fingerprint Sensor Start-Up.FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- Validity Sensors -- a leading developer of biometric fingerprint sensors -- today announced the appointment of Mr. Tony Alvarez This article is about the Major League Baseball center fielder. For the Australian actor, see Tony Alvarez (actor). Antonio Enrique Álvarez [AL-vah-rez] (born May 10, 1979 in Caracas, Venezuela), is a Major League Baseball center fielder and right-handed to its Board of Directors. Mr. Alvarez is the President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Leadis Technology. He became 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 Leadis Technology after 18 years at Cypress Semiconductor Cypress Semiconductor is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It began operations in 1982 and listed publicly in 1986. Two years later, the company shifted over to the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, (NYSE: CY). . Mr. Alvarez was Senior Vice President of the Memory and Imaging Products Division at Cypress Semiconductor. While at Cypress, he improved Cypress's SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory market position from eighth to second in the world, with peak annual revenues over $600M. He also spearheaded all process technology development for Cypress. Prior to Cypress, Mr. Alvarez spent more than eight years in technology development at Motorola Semiconductor Products Segment (SPS (Standby Power System) A UPS system that switches to battery backup upon detection of power failure. See UPS. SPS - Symbolic Programming System. Assembly language for IBM 1620. ). Mr. Alvarez is a Board Director at ChipMOS. "We are delighted to have Tony join the Board of Validity," said Mr. Arjun Gupta, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Validity Sensors and Managing Partner of TeleSoft Partners. "Tony's operational experience, industry network and strategic guidance will be a great asset as Validity grows." "Validity Sensors' unique, next generation technology, which separates the sensing element from the silicon die, enables its biometric fingerprint sensor to achieve a new level of durability and form factor intrinsically better than anything else in the market today," said Mr. Alvarez. "Given the rapid adoption of fingerprint sensor technology in the digital device industry, Validity is poised for great success. I look forward to helping guide this highly promising company." About Validity Sensors Headquartered in Foster City, California
v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management for corporate network security, secure mobile transactions, protection of portable data, identity verification Noun 1. identity verification - the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics; "negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification"; "if a pin or password is lost or for government and military applications and physical access control. For more information, visit www.validityinc.com. All trademarks or registered trademarks are property of the respective holders. (C) 2006 Validity Sensors Inc. |
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