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Front Row (seated left to right)

Walden C. Rhines
Compensation Committee Chairman
Chairman of the Board and CEO, Mentor Graphics Corporation

Dr. Rhines has been a member of the Board since 1995.  During that time, he has also served as Chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics Corporation, an Electronic Design Automation company with revenue of over $700 million.  Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Rhines was Executive Vice President of the Semiconductor Group of Texas Instruments Inc. where he shared responsibility for the TI Components Sector and had direct responsibility for all of TI's Semiconductor business.  During his 21 years at TI, Rhines managed TI’s thrust into digital signal processing and supervised that business from inception with the TMS 320 family of DSP’s through growth to become the cornerstone of TI’s semiconductor technology.  He was also responsible for development of the first TI speech synthesis devices (used in “Speak & Spell”) and is co-inventor of the GaN blue-violet light emitting diode (now important for DVD players).  He was President of TI’s Data Systems Group and held numerous other semiconductor executive management positions.  He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC) and serves on the Boards of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, Cirrus Logic, Mentor Graphics, Lewis & Clark College and the Oregon Engineering and Technology Industry Council.  He holds a BSE in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan, an MS and PhD
from Stanford University, an MBA from Southern Methodist University and an Honorary Doctor of Technology from Nottingham Trent University.





Steven J. Sharp
Chairman of the Board, TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.

Mr. Sharp joined our company in September 1991 as director, president and chief executive officer. In May 1992, he became chairman of our board. In July 2002, Mr. Sharp stepped down as president and chief executive officer of TriQuint, and in September 2004, he resigned as an employee of the company but remains as chairman of the board of directors of TriQuint. Previously, Mr. Sharp had served various roles associated with venture capital-financed semiconductor companies. In these assignments he was founder of Power Integrations, Inc. and Silicon Architects, Inc. (since acquired by Synopsys, Inc.). Mr. Sharp was also a Director at Volterra Semiconductor Corp., Megatest Corp. (since acquired by Teradyne, Inc.), Crystal Semiconductor, Inc. (since acquired by Cirrus Logic, Inc.) and Gazelle Microelectronics (now TriQuint). Prior to that time, Mr. Sharp was employed for 14 years by Signetics Corporation (since acquired by Philips Electronics N.V.), a semiconductor manufacturer and for nine years by Texas Instruments, Incorporated, a semiconductor manufacturer. Mr. Sharp also serves as a director of Power Integrations, Inc. and Ambric, Inc. He received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, a M.S. degree in Engineering Science from California Institute of Technology and a M.B.A. from Stanford University.





Back Row (seated left to right)

Ralph G. Quinsey
President and CEO, TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.

Mr. Quinsey joined TriQuint in July 2002 as President and Chief Executive Officer. From September 1999 to January 2002, Mr. Quinsey was with ON Semiconductor, a manufacturer of semiconductors for a wide array of applications, as Vice President and General Manager of the Analog Division. Prior to that, Mr. Quinsey was with Motorola, a manufacturer of semiconductors and communications equipment, from 1979 to September 1999, holding various positions including Vice President and General Manager of the RF/IF Circuits Division, which developed both silicon and gallium arsenide technologies for wireless phone applications. Mr. Quinsey received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University.





Nicolas Kauser
Compensation Committee Member
President, Clearwire International

Mr. Kauser has been a director of our company since December 1999. Presently, Mr. Kauser is the President of Clearwire International and member of the board of directors of Clearwire Inc., a privately held company dedicated to the implementation of wireless broadband services in various countries. From 1990 through 1998, Mr. Kauser served as executive vice president and chief technology officer of AT&T Wireless Services, Seattle, Washington (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.). From 1984 through 1990, Mr. Kauser was employed by Rogers Cantel, Inc., a Canadian wireless service provider, as vice president of engineering and later, senior vice president of network operations. He was a member of Cantel’s board of directors from 1990 to 1998. Mr. Kauser received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.





Charles Scott Gibson
Audit and Compensation Committees Member
Co-founder, former President, Sequent Computer Systems

Mr. Gibson has been a director of our company since September 1992. Since March 1992, Mr. Gibson has been a director of a number of high technology companies and not-for-profit organizations. He co-founded Sequent Computer Systems Inc., a computer systems company, in 1983 (which was acquired by International Business Machines Corporation), and served as its president from January 1988 to February 1992. From 1976 to 1983, Mr. Gibson was employed at Intel Corporation as general manager, Memory Components Operations. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors of RadiSys Corporation, and is a director of Pixelworks, Inc., Electroglas, Inc., Northwest Natural Company and Verigy. Mr. Gibson also serves on the Board of Trustees of Olin School of Engineering and is the Vice Chairman of the Oregon Health and Sciences University Governing and Foundation Board of Trustees and as a director of the Oregon Community Foundation. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois.





Willis C. Young
Audit Committee Chairman
Retired Senior Partner, BDO Seidman, LLP

Mr. Young has been a director of our company since July 2001. Prior to joining our board, he was a director of Sawtek Inc. from 1996 until 2001 when Sawtek merged with TriQuint. Mr. Young was a senior partner in the Atlanta office of BDO Seidman, LLP, an international accounting and consulting firm, from January 1996 to June 2000. Mr. Young retired in July 2000. From April 1995 to December 1995, Mr. Young was the chief financial officer for Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc., a manufacturer of modems and communication equipment. From 1965 to 1995, Mr. Young held various positions with BDO Seidman, LLP, and from 1988 to 1995 he was vice chairman and a member of BDO Seidman’s Executive Committee. Mr. Young has a B.S. degree in accounting from Ferris State University. He is a certified public accountant. Under Item 401(h) of Regulation S-K, Mr. Young is the designated audit committee financial expert. Mr. Young is considered “independent” as the term is used in Item 7(d)(3)(iv) of Schedule 14A under the 1934 Act.





Paul A. Gary
Nominating and Governance Committee Chairman
Audit and Compensation Committees Member
Retired Executive, AT&T (now Agere Systems)

Dr. Gary has been a director of our company since May 1996. Dr. Gary has been retired since 1996. From 1967 until 1996, he served in various capacities for Bell Laboratories, Western Electric Corporation and the Microelectronics division of AT&T Corporation (now Agere Systems, Inc.), with his last position being vice president of the Netcom IC business unit. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors of Data I/O Corporation.
Dr. Gary holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.








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