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Board of Directors – Biographies |
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| Dr. William G. Howard - Director and Chairman of the Board |
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| Dr. William G. Howard has served as a director of Ramtron since July 1994. Since September 1990, Dr. Howard has been an independent engineering consultant to various entities, including SEMATECH, the Semiconductor Industry Association and Dow Corning. Dr. Howard is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Howard has served on many boards of directors of both public and private companies and is currently a director of Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX), a public company that manufactures integrated circuits and Sandia National Laboratories, a private company that is a multi-program engineering and science laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company. |
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| Eric A. Balzer - Director and Chief Executive Officer |
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| Eric Balzer became a director of Ramtron in 1998 and served on Ramtron's audit committee from 1999 to 2004. From 1990 until his retirement in 1999, Mr. Balzer served as senior vice president of operations for Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (AE). During his tenure at AE, the company demonstrated very high growth as it developed, manufactured and marketed power conversion devices for the semiconductor equipment industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. Balzer was the materials and manufacturing manager for IBM’s Corporate Systems Technology Division in Colorado Springs, the VP of finance and administration for Lewis Energy, and an accounting manager and internal auditor for Shell Oil. Mr. Balzer holds a bachelors’ degree in Finance from the University of Colorado. He also graduated from the U. S. Navy Nuclear Power Program and Electronics School, and spent six years in the Navy where he was primarily responsible for running a nuclear reactor aboard a submarine. |
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| Mr. Theodore J. Coburn - Director |
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| Mr. Theodore J. Coburn joined Ramtron as a director in September 2005. From August 1991 to December of 2009, Mr. Coburn has served as president of the Coburn Capital Group, a boutique investment bank based in New York City. Since January 2010, Mr. Coburn has served as a partner of Coburn Greenberg Partners LLC, a strategic advisory and investment banking firm. He serves as trustee of the Allianz Global Investors Mutual Fund Complex. From January 2007 to November 2008, Mr. Coburn served as executive vice president of Nations Academy, a private education management company. From March 2006 to January 2007, Mr. Coburn was executive vice president of Edison Schools Inc., a private educational management company. Mr. Coburn received a B.S. degree in economics and finance from the University of Virginia; an M.B.A. degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Business; and a Masters of Divinity degree, a Master's degree in education, and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Cognitive Development from Harvard University. |
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| Dr. William L. George - Director |
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| Dr. William L. George became a director of Ramtron in August 2005. From July 2007 until his retirement in September 2008, Dr. George served as executive vice president, manufacturing services, of ON Semiconductor, a supplier of performance power solutions. From August 1999 until June 2007, Dr. George served as executive vice president of operations for ON Semiconductor. Dr. George received a B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Purdue University. Dr. George is a director of Silicon Image, Inc. (SIMG), a public company that designs and develops mixed-signal integrated circuits, and is a director of Power Integrations, Inc. (POWI), a public company that is a supplier of high voltage analog circuits for power management in line driven applications. |
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| Eric Kuo - Director |
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| Mr. Eric Kuo joined Ramtron as a director in March 2008. From April 2003 until his retirement in December 2007, he served as president and managing director of Fairchild Semiconductor (HK) Ltd., the Asia/Pacific arm of Fairchild Semiconductor (FCS), a public company that provides high performance semiconductors that optimize energy for various product applications. In that capacity, Mr. Kuo was responsible for defining and implementing the region's strategic business plan and execution for Fairchild Semiconductor's Asia Pacific investments, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. From January 2009 to December 2009, Mr. Kuo served as senior vice president of worldwide sales of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, a private company engaged in power management semiconductor products. Mr. Kuo holds both a BSc in Management from National Chung Hsin University in Taiwan and an MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. |
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