Trident Microsystems Announces Executive Management Team Changes

CEO to Assume President Duties; Executive Team Expands

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trident
Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRID), a leader in high-performance semiconductor
system solutions for the multimedia and digital television markets, today
announced the Board of Directors has appointed Sylvia D. Summers, Trident's
Chief Executive Officer, to the additional position of President. Trident
also announced that three senior executives have been added to the management
team. In addition, Trident announced the resignation of Jung-Herng (JH)
Chang, its former President. Dr. Chang is expected to provide consultant
services to Trident during a transition period.
"The focus of today's restructuring is to gain better alignment with the
market and to increase customer satisfaction. As such, I'm pleased to
announce that Ben A. Lee has accepted the position as our Vice President of
Worldwide Sales. He will be joining the company next week and will be located
in our Shanghai office. Walter Lin, currently a Vice President in
Engineering, will expand his role to include worldwide applications
engineering. Peter Wicher, our current Vice President of Worldwide Business
Development and Corporate Marketing, will assume the new key role of Vice
President of Digital TV Marketing. Also, Leechung Yiu, our current Vice
President of VLSI Engineering, will coordinate the functional engineering
organizations of the company on an interim basis while we search for a
permanent Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering.
I am thrilled to have Ben, Walter and Peter join my executive team during this
critical transition period, and to have Leechung serve in this important
interim role, and look forward to their many contributions as we expand our
product offerings and become more agile and customer driven," said Ms.
Summers.
"I'd like to personally thank JH for his extraordinary contributions
during the past fifteen years, which included the creation of two successful
product lines for Trident in graphics and digital television, and look forward
to his further contributions as a consultant to the company," continued Ms.
Summers.
Executive Biographies
Mr. Lee, 42, brings more than 10 years of executive experience, most
recently serving at ApexOne Microelectronics as Chief Operating Officer, a
private fabless semiconductor company, from August 2006 to February 2008.
From September 2000 to August 2006, he served at Altera as Asia Pacific Vice
President and Managing Director. Previous to Altera, Mr. Lee held several
Asia-based executive positions with National Semiconductor and Chartered
Semiconductor covering sales and marketing. He holds a master of business
administration degree from Golden Gate University and a bachelor of science
degree in electrical engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Mr. Lin, 53, joined Trident in April 1999 and has more than 20 years of
engineering management experience. Prior to Trident, he served in engineering
management roles with Paradise Electronics and Genoa Systems Inc. He holds a
master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of
California at Santa Barbara and a bachelor of science degree in electrical
engineering from National Taiwan University.
Mr. Wicher, 47, joined Trident in June 2004 and has more than 10 years of
sales executive experience. From May 2001 to June 2004, he served at Genesis
Microchip as Vice President of North America and Europe Sales and at Sage Inc,
which was acquired by Genesis, as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Previous
to Genesis, Mr. Wicher held several sales and marketing positions with 3Dfx,
S3, AT&T Microelectronics, and Hewlett Packard. He began his career as an
engineer with Syntelligence and Fujitsu Research Laboratories. He holds a
master of business administration degree as well as master and bachelor of
science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the
University of California at Berkeley.
Mr. Yiu, 52, joined Trident in March 2007 and has more than 20 years of
engineering management experience. From November 2005 to March 2007, he
served at Huahong Semiconductor in Shanghai as Vice President Engineering.
From February 2003 to October 2005, he served as CTO at Sunext Technology in
Taiwan. Prior to Sunext, he served in Vice President Engineering roles with
Marvell Semiconductor and Newave Semiconductor and engineer management roles
with Talus Technology, Seeq Technology, Micro Linear, and Teknekeon
Communications Systems. He holds a Ph.D. degree and a master of science
degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of
California at Berkeley and a bachelor of science degree in electrical
engineering from National Taiwan University.
About Trident Microsystems, Inc.
Trident Microsystems, Inc., with headquarters in Santa Clara, California,
designs, develops and markets digital media for the masses in the form of
multimedia integrated circuits (ICs) for PCs and digital processing ICs for
TVs and TV monitors. Trident's products are sold to a network of OEMs,
original design manufacturers and system integrators worldwide. For further
information about Trident and its products, please consult the Company's web
site: http://www.tridentmicro.com.
NOTE: Trident is a registered trademark of Trident Microsystems, Inc.,
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trademarks of Trident Microsystems, Inc. All other company and product names
are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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