Industry Veteran, Ken Way, Joins Tilera as VP of Sales Americas

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Tue May 19, 2009 6:54am EDT

  SAN JOSE, CA, May 19 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
Tilera(R) Corporation today announced that it has appointed industry
veteran Ken Way to the position of Vice President of Sales for the
Americas territory. Way, who was most recently Director of EMEA and
Strategic Global Accounts Sales at Cavium Networks, will report to Bill
Sweeney, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Tilera Corporation.

    "With the increasing demand for Tilera products, we are continuing to
build our sales organization. I am very pleased to have Ken on my team.
He brings tremendous experience in Semiconductor sales," said Bill
Sweeney, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Tilera Corporation. "He will
be responsible for our key account strategy and will build and lead a
strong sales organization to significantly grow revenues and market share
for Tilera within the Americas territory."

    Way has over 15 years of semiconductor sales and marketing experience,
during which he has shown a consistently successful record of growing
revenue and market share, increasing account penetration, building sales
organizations, and contributing over $3B of lifetime revenue in the design
win pipeline. In his recent role at Cavium, Way implemented strategies to
further penetrate the EMEA territory and rolled out the Strategic Global
Accounts Program. In his career at Freescale, Way served as Global Account
Director for Cisco Systems and later in roles as Director of US National
Sales and Western Region Sales, where his teams secured design wins
totaling well over $1B of lifetime revenues. At Freescale, Way drove
successful market and customer alignment strategies that were recognized
by customers such as Cisco, where Freescale was awarded the highly coveted
"Preferred" supplier status. In addition, Way has successfully built and
led World Class teams that have received numerous awards, including
Cisco's Excellence in Supplier Account Team Service, and Arrow
Electronics' Bay Area Supplier Team of the Year.

    Way started his career at Motorola Semiconductor (now Freescale) in
various marketing and sales positions. He later joined Trinity
Technologies as Senior Field Sales Engineer focusing on Cisco Systems and
had a brief stay at PA Semi as Senior Director of Sales before the
company was acquired by Apple. He holds a Bachelor of Science in
Microelectronic Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

    About Tilera

    Tilera(R) Corporation is the industry leader in highly scalable general
purpose multicore processors for Networking, Wireless, and Multimedia
infrastructure applications. Tilera's processors are based on its
breakthrough iMesh(TM) architecture that scales to hundreds of RISC-based
cores on a single chip. The distributed nature of Tilera's revolutionary
architecture and the standards-based tools, including ANSI C/C++ compiler,
GNU tools and Eclipse IDE, deliver an unprecedented combination of
performance, power efficiency and programming flexibility. Tilera was
founded in October 2004, and now provides two product families:
TILE64(TM) processors and TILEPro(TM) processors. The company is
headquartered in San Jose, Calif. with locations in Westborough, Mass.,
and Beijing.

    

For more information, contact:
Ihab Bishara
Marketing Director
Tilera Corporation
Telephone: 508-616-9300
Email: Email Contact
www.tilera.com

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