MILPITAS, Calif., May 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sipex Corporation
(OTC: SIPX.PK), today announced the appointment of Dr. Zhe Zhang to the
position of Vice President and General Manager of Wafer Foundry Operations.
In this newly created position, Dr. Zhang will oversee the transfer of
wafer fabrication manufacturing from Milpitas, CA to foundry partners in
Asia, and manage foundry operations on an ongoing basis.
Dr. Zhang comes to Sipex with over ten years of related semiconductor
experience. In his most recent assignment with Jazz Semiconductor, Zhang
served as the general manager and director of the board of their China
operations. In this role he established and managed their foundry business
and built a technical and operations team in China, managed technology
transfer, product qualification and fab operation metrics.
"We are very pleased to have someone with Dr. Zhang's level of
experience join our team," said Joel Camarda, Senior Vice President of
Operations at Sipex. "He brings a wealth of experience that we feel will
assist in our transition to a fabless company."
Dr. Zhang holds a Ph.D from Harvard University and a post-doctoral
fellowship with MIT.
About Sipex Corporation
Sipex Corporation is a semiconductor company that designs, manufactures
and markets high performance, value-added analog integrated circuits (IC).
Sipex serves the broad analog signal processing market with interface,
power management and optical storage ICs for use in automotive, portable
products, computing, communications, and networking infrastructure markets.
The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California with additional
offices in Billerica, MA, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Japan and
Taiwan. Sipex sells products direct and through its distribution channels.
For more information about Sipex, visit http://www.sipex.com.
CONTACT: Joel Camarda, Senior VP Operations, +1-408-934-7500, or fax,
+1-408-935-7678, or JCamarda@sipex.com
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CONTACT:
Joel Camarda, Senior VP Operations,
+1-408-934-7500, or fax, +1-408-935-7678, or JCamarda@sipex.com
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