Monday, November 26, 2012

QuickLogic Corp. (QUIK) Appoints New Vice-President of Worldwide Engineering


QuickLogic is the inventor and pioneer of innovative, customizable semiconductor solutions for mobile and portable electronics OEMs and ODMs. The company’s silicon plus software solutions are called Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs). These allow clients to bring their products to market more quickly, with the low power, cost, and size demanded by the marketplace.

The company announced today that George Apostol Jr. has joined the company as vice-president, Worldwide Engineering. With an impressive engineering and technical leadership background spanning more than 25 years in Silicon Valley, Apostol will be responsible for providing executive leadership for the company’s global engineering activities.

Apostol comes to QuickLogic most recently from EXAR Corporation, a leading supplier of high performance, analog mixed-signal components and data management solutions. At EXAR, he was in the role of executive vice-president of Engineering & Operations, as well as serving as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to his stint at EXAR, Apostol was Chief Technology Officer and vice-president of Engineering for PLX Teechnology, a leading global supplier of high-speed connectivity solutions enabling emerging data center architectures.

In announcing his appointment, QuickLogic’s president and CEO Andy Pease commented, “George has demonstrated the ability to build strong and efficient engineering teams that are capable of delivering the on-time, quality execution that QuickLogic needs to support the sales momentum we are building with our CSSP business model.”

For additional information about QuickLogic Corporation and its CSSP business, visit www.quicklogic.com

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