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Necip Sayiner, President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Sayiner joined Silicon Laboratories as President and CEO in September 2005. Prior to joining Silicon Laboratories, Dr. Sayiner was vice president and general manager of the enterprise and networking division at Agere Systems. He also served as the vice president and general manager of the networking IC division and held several senior design management roles in the storage division. Dr. Sayiner holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and physics from Bosphorus University in Turkey. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Southern Illinois University and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He has received multiple patents related to data detection schemes. Click here to learn more about our CEO. Bill Bock, Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Bock stepped down from the Silicon Laboratories’ Board of Directors in November 2006 to join the senior management team in his current role. Mr. Bock joined Silicon Laboratories’ Board in March 2000 and served as chairman of the audit committee. Prior to joining Silicon Laboratories, Mr. Bock was a partner at venture capital firms CenterPoint Ventures and Verity Ventures. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Bock served as President and Chief Executive Officer of DAZEL Corporation, a provider of electronic information delivery systems. After DAZEL’s acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Bock then served as Vice President for HP until 2001. Mr. Bock has also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Tivoli Systems, which he helped take public in 1995 and was later acquired by IBM. Prior to joining Tivoli, Mr. Bock successfully completed an IPO at Convex Computer Corporation as CFO in 1986 and then became the Senior Vice President of Sales in 1991. Prior to Convex, Mr. Bock spent nine years in various finance roles at Texas Instruments including the Vice President and Controller of the Data Systems Group. Mr. Bock holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Iowa State University and a master’s degree in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
Jon Ivester, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations
Mr. Ivester joined Silicon Laboratories in September 1997 as Vice President of Manufacturing. From May 1984 to September 1997, Mr. Ivester was with Applied Materials and served as Director of Manufacturing and Director of U.S. Procurement in addition to various engineering management positions. Mr. Ivester was a scientist at Bechtel Corporation, an engineering and construction company, from 1980 to 1982 and at Abcor, Inc., an ultrafiltration company and subsidiary of Koch Industries, from 1978 to 1980. Mr. Ivester holds a B.S. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Kurt Hoff, Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Mr. Hoff joined Silicon Laboratories in 2005 and served as the company’s vice president of European sales and operations where he was instrumental in establishing a presence at key European accounts and in developing a distribution channel for the company’s expanding, broad-based business. Prior to joining Silicon Laboratories, Mr. Hoff served as president, chief executive officer and director of Cognio, a spectrum management company. Mr. Hoff previously managed sales and operations for C-Port Corporation, a network processor company acquired by Motorola. Additionally, Mr. Hoff held various positions at AMD including vice president of sales where he managed operations of $500 million servicing large communications multinationals. Mr. Hoff holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago.
Mark Downing, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development
Mr. Downing joined Silicon Laboratories in 2007. Prior to joining the company, he was Chief Executive Officer and Director of Enpirion, a private company offering high efficiency switching dc-dc converters. Before Enpirion, Mr. Downing served as Vice President of Marketing for Micrel responsible for defining strategic direction. Mr. Downing also served as Vice President of Marketing at Pericom Semiconductor where he was responsible for each of Pericom's four product lines and launching the company in preparation for an IPO. From 1988 to 1997, Mr Downing served in various strategic planning, marketing, product line management and applications management roles at National Semiconductor. Mr. Downing holds a bachelor's degree in Physics from Aston University and a master's degree in business administration from Open University.
David Bresemann, Vice President
Mr. Bresemann serves as Vice President focused on wireline products. Mr. Bresemann served as Director of Marketing for wireline products from July 1998 to May 2002. Previously, he served as the Director of Marketing for Consumer and Professional Audio Products at Crystal Semiconductor/Cirrus Logic from February 1992 to July 1998. From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Bresemann held various sales positions for Analog Devices, a designer and manufacturer of integrated circuits. Mr. Bresemann holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona.
Derrell Coker, Vice President
Mr. Coker joined Silicon Laboratories with the acquisition of Cygnal Integrated Products in 2003. Mr. Coker co-founded Cygnal in 1999 and successfully acquired venture financing and took the company to $5.2 million in revenue before being acquired by Silicon Laboratories. Prior to Cygnal, Derrell spent nine years at Benchmarq Microelectronics Inc as its founding President and CEO. He was also Vice President of Sales for Dallas Semiconductor and General Manager at Mostek Corporation.
Tyson Tuttle, Vice President
Tyson Tuttle serves as vice president of Silicon Laboratories’ broadcast products including the FM tuner and satellite set-top box receiver product families. Mr. Tuttle joined Silicon Laboratories in 1997 as a senior design engineer for the company’s initial product, the silicon direct access arrangement and since 1999, Mr. Tuttle has served in a variety of product management and marketing leadership positions. Previously, Mr. Tuttle held senior design positions at Crystal Semiconductor and Broadcom Corporation focusing on high-speed mixed-signal circuit design for hard disk drive read channel and Ethernet applications. Mr. Tuttle holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from UCLA and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Paul Walsh, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
Mr. Walsh joined Silicon Laboratories in 2004 as the Director of Finance for Worldwide Operations. He was appointed Corporate Controller in 2005 and Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer in 2006. Mr. Walsh has more than a decade of experience in the semiconductor industry and has had significant roles related to business operations, financial planning and analysis, international finance and accounting, and technical accounting and compliance. Prior to Silicon Labs, Mr. Walsh was the Site Controller for PerkinElmer. From 2000 to 2003, he worked for Teradyne where he served as the Manufacturing Controller and Finance Manager. He spent eight years at Analog Devices in various roles including Finance Manager for the DSP division. Mr. Walsh is certifiable as a CPA, holds an M.B.A from Boston University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Maine.
Diane Williams, Vice President, Human Resources
Diane Williams joined Silicon Labs in February 2006. She is responsible for all human resources programs world-wide. Diane has over 25 years of high tech experience in human resources. Prior to joining Silicon Labs Diane held the position of Vice President of Human Resources at Serena Software, Tektronix, RadiSys and Sequent Computer Systems. She holds a BA in Political Science from SUNY Stony Brook and an M.Ed. in Administration from the University of Houston.
Everett G. Plante, Jr. Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Everett Plante joined Silicon Laboratories in March 2008. He brings a proven track record of driving information technology (IT) vision, strategy and implementation to achieve business and compliance objectives globally. Prior to joining Silicon Labs, Mr. Plante was the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Harcourt Assessment. Mr. Plante was also the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Enron Broadband Services. Mr. Plante also served as the Senior Director of Supply Chain Management Systems for Compaq Computer and the Director of Systems, Development and Information Services for Sysco Corporation. Mr. Plante holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Loras College.
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