People: RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD.O)
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Walter Wilkinson |
66 | 2008 | Independent Chairman of the Board |
Robert Bruggeworth |
51 | 2003 | President, Chief Executive Officer, Director |
William Priddy |
51 | 2003 | Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Vice President - Administration, Secretary |
Alan Hallberg |
2012 | Chief Marketing Officer, Corporate Vice President | |
James Stilson |
65 | 2004 | Corporate Vice President - Operations |
Barry Church |
50 | 2001 | Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer, Corporate Controller |
Suzanne Rudy |
57 | 2004 | Vice President, Corporate Treasurer, Compliance Officer, Assistant Secretary |
James Clifford |
2013 | Vice President - Foundry Services | |
Steven Creviston |
48 | 2007 | Corporate Vice President, President - Cellular Products Group |
Norman Hilgendorf |
51 | 2011 | Corporate Vice President, President - Multi-Market Products Group |
Daniel DiLeo |
64 | 2002 | Independent Director |
Jeffery Gardner |
53 | 2004 | Independent Director |
John Harding |
58 | 2006 | Independent Director |
Masood Jabbar |
62 | 2009 | Independent Director |
Casimir Skrzypczak |
71 | 2007 | Independent Director |
Erik van der Kaay |
72 | 1996 | Independent Director |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Walter Wilkinson |
Mr. Walter H. Wilkinson is an Independent Chairman of the Board of RF Micro Devices Inc. Mr. Wilkinson has served as a director since 1992 and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since July 2008. He is the founder and a general partner of Kitty Hawk Capital, a venture capital firm established in 1980 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a member of the board of directors of The Ben Craig Center, an entrepreneurial incubator affiliated with The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a past member and director of the National Venture Capital Association and is a past member and Chairman of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies. During his career he has helped to start or expand dozens of rapidly growing companies in a variety of industries. Mr. Wilkinson serves or has served as a director of numerous venture-backed companies, both public and private. The Board determined that Mr. Wilkinson should be nominated for election as a director given leadership skills and understanding of history gained as a founding investor. With over 35 years of venture capital experience, Mr. Wilkinson also brings a unique perspective to the Board. He has overseen the growth and evolution of numerous businesses and understands the challenges of both private and public companies through changing economic conditions and that boards of directors must work together in a collegial and effective manner to provide appropriate guidance to management. |
Robert Bruggeworth |
Mr. Robert A. Bruggeworth is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of RF Micro Devices Inc. Mr. Bruggeworth has served as President since June 2002 and Chief Executive Officer since January 2003. He was appointed to the Board of Directors in January 2003. He served as Vice President of Wireless Products from September 1999 to January 2002 and President of Wireless Products from January 2002 to June 2002. Mr. Bruggeworth was previously employed at AMP Inc. (now TE Connectivity LTD), a supplier of electrical and electronic connection devices, from July 1983 to April 1999. He held a number of manufacturing and engineering management positions at AMP Inc., as Divisional Vice President of Global Computer and Consumer Electronics based in Hong Kong, China. Mr. Bruggeworth is a member of the board of directors of Mine Safety Appliances Company, a publicly traded in the development, manufacture and supply of sophisticated safety products that protect people’s health and safety. |
William Priddy |
Mr. William A. Priddy is Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Vice President - Administration, Secretary of RF Micro Devices Inc. He became Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Vice President of Administration in July 1997 and Secretary in July 2003. He was Controller from December 1991 to December 1993, Treasurer and Controller from December 1993 to September 1998, and Vice President of Finance from December 1994 to July 1997. Prior to joining RFMD, Mr. Priddy was employed for five years with Analog Devices, Inc. in various positions in finance and marketing. |
Alan Hallberg |
Mr. Alan Hallberg has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer, Corporate Vice President of RF Micro Devices, Inc., effective 24 October 2012. Mr. Hallberg is a seasoned industry veteran with experience in marketing and branding at technology leaders including Lenovo, Cisco, and Apple. Most recently, he served as vice president, global brand communications at Lenovo, where he led a two-year global re-branding and marketing effort that contributed to the company's rise from No. 4 to the world's No. 1 PC maker. Mr. Hallberg graduated from Pomona College and holds a law degree from the University of Virginia. |
James Stilson |
Mr. James D. Stilson is Corporate Vice President - Operations of RF Micro Devices Inc., since January 2004. He joined RFMD in January 2004 as the Corporate Vice President of Operations. From July 1999 to January 2004, Mr. Stilson was the President of ASE Korea, Inc., a semiconductor assembly and test solution provider. From November 1997 to July 1999, he was the General Manager of Motorola Korea Ltd., which was purchased by the ASE Group to form ASE Korea, Inc. From April 1995 to November 1997, he was the Assistant General Manager of Motorola Korea Ltd. |
Barry Church |
Mr. Barry D. Church is Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer, Corporate Controller of RF Micro Devices Inc., since September 2001. He began his employment in March 1998. From March 1998 until August 1998, Mr. Church was Manager of Financial Planning and from September 1998 until September 2001 he was Controller. In addition to tenure at RFMD, Mr. Church has 13 years’ experience in financial positions at Sara Lee Corporation and AT&T, Inc. |
Suzanne Rudy |
Ms. Suzanne B. Rudy is Vice President, Corporate Treasurer, Compliance Officer, Assistant Secretary of RF Micro Devices Inc. She became Vice President and Corporate Treasurer in November 2002 and Compliance Officer and Assistant Secretary in January 2004. She was Corporate Treasurer from May 1999 until November 2002. Prior to joining RFMD, Ms. Rudy was employed for eight years at Precision Fabrics Group Inc. as Controller and for six years at BDO Seidman, LLP, most recently as a Tax Manager. |
James Clifford |
Mr. James A. Clifford has been appointed as Vice President - Foundry Services of RF Micro Devices, Inc. From 1994 until 2012, Mr. Clifford served at QUALCOMM Corporation, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager Operations. Prior to QUALCOMM, Mr. Clifford spent 21 years at Unisys Corporation, in multiple positions of increasing responsibility covering manufacturing, engineering and procurement. |
Steven Creviston |
Mr. Steven E. Creviston is Corporate Vice President, President - Cellular Products Group of RF Micro Devices Inc., since August 2007. From May 2002 to August 2007, he served as a Corporate Vice President of CPG, which was known as Wireless Products until April 2004. He began his employment with RFMD in December 1994 as Strategic Account Manager. From May 1997 to May 1999, Mr. Creviston was Director of Account Management, from June 1999 to April 2001 he was Product Line Director, and from May 2001 to May 2002 he was Divisional Vice President. |
Norman Hilgendorf |
Mr. Norman A. Hilgendorf is Corporate Vice President, President - Multi-Market Products Group of RF Micro Devices, Inc., October 3, 2011. From November 2007 until October 2011, he served as Vice President, Business Development. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Hilgendorf served in a variety of roles for Sirenza Microdevices, Inc., which was acquired by RFMD in November 2007, including Chief Operating Officer, President – SMDI Segment, Chief Strategy Officer, VP Business Development and Strategic Marketing, and VP Sales and Marketing. Prior to Sirenza, he was Vice President and General Manager at Richardson Electronics, Ltd., a distributor of electronic components. |
Daniel DiLeo |
Mr. Daniel A. DiLeo is an Independent Director of RF Micro Devices Inc., since August 2002. He is the principal of Dan DiLeo, LLC, a consulting firm that he founded in March 2002. Mr. DiLeo was an Executive Vice President of Agere Systems Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor components and optoelectronics, from March 2001 to April 2002. He served as President of the Optoelectronics Division of Lucent Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor components and optoelectronics, from November 1999 to March 2001, Vice President from June 1998 to October 1999 and Vice President of the wireless business unit from January 1995 to May 1998. He sits on the board and/or advises several private semiconductor device companies in the U.S. and Europe. From May 2000 to May 2009, Mr. DiLeo served as a director of Data I/O Corporation, a publicly traded designer and manufacturer of equipment and software to program devices for original equipment manufacturers. |
Jeffery Gardner |
Mr. Jeffery R. Gardner is an Independent Director of RF Micro Devices Inc., since November 2004. Since January 2006, Mr. Gardner has been the President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Windstream Corporation, a publicly traded spin-off of the landline business of ALLTEL Corporation that provides voice, broadband and entertainment services to customers in 29 states. From January 2000 to December 2005, Mr. Gardner was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ALLTEL. From August 1998 to January 2000, was the Senior Vice President of Finance and the Treasurer of ALLTEL. Mr. Gardner has been in the communications industry since 1986 and joined ALLTEL in 1998 when ALLTEL and 360 Communications Company merged. At 360 Communications, Mr. Gardner held a senior management positions, including: Senior Vice President of Finance, which included treasury, accounting and capital markets responsibilities; President of the Mid-Atlantic Region; Vice President and General Manager of the Las Vegas market; and Director of Finance. Since 2008, he has served as a member of the Executive Committee of USTelecom, a telecommunications trade association. |
John Harding |
Mr. John R. Harding is an Independent Director of RF Micro Devices Inc., since November 2006. Mr. Harding co-founded and is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of eSilicon Corporation, a privately held company that designs and manufactures complex, custom chips for a broad and growing portfolio of and small firms. Before starting eSilicon Corporation in May 2000, Mr. Harding served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and director of the publicly traded Cadence Design Systems, Inc., which acquired his former employer, Cooper & Chyan Technology, Inc. Mr. Harding has held a senior management positions at Zycad Corporation and career includes positions with TXL and IBM Corporation. Mr. Harding has held leadership roles at Drew University and Indiana University (IU), where he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and a member of IU’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs Advisory Board, respectively. In addition, Mr. Harding has served as a member of the Steering Committee at the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and was a former National Academies’ Committee member for Software, Growth and Future of the U.S. Economy. In 2012, Mr. Harding was re-elected as the value chain producer director to the board of directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance, a position he has held since 2010. |
Masood Jabbar |
Mr. Masood A. Jabbar is an Independent Director of RF Micro Devices Inc., since March 2009. Mr. Jabbar is a private investor in start-up companies. Mr. Jabbar worked at Sun Microsystems, Inc. from 1986 to 2003, where he served in a series of progressively responsible roles including President of the Computer Systems Division, Chief Financial Officer of the $10 billion Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, and Executive Vice President of Global Sales Operations. Mr. Jabbar’s career at Sun Microsystems, Inc. culminated as Executive Vice President and Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, where he was responsible for advising the CEO on critical strategic issues. Prior to joining Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mr. Jabbar spent ten years in finance and accounting at Xerox Corporation and two years at IBM Corporation. Mr. Jabbar is also a member of the Board of Directors of Silicon Image, Inc., a publicly traded fabless semiconductor company serving consumer electronics markets, JDS Uniphase Corporation, a publicly traded optical communications, test and measurement company, and Calypso Technology Inc., a privately held company in the United States. Mr. Jabbar previously served as a member of the board of directors of MSC Software, Inc., a former publicly traded design automation simulation software company, from June 2005 to February 2007 and again from March 2009 to September 2009, and Openwave Systems Inc., a publicly traded designer of software for mobile devices and wireless infrastructure, from August 2003 to November 2007. Mr. Jabbar served as a member of the board of directors of The Picsel Group, a mobile user interface software company based in the United Kingdom, from January 2003 to May 2009. |
Casimir Skrzypczak |
Mr. Casimir Stephen Skrzypczak is an Independent Director of RF Micro Devices Inc., since November 2007. Prior to serving as one of the directors, Mr. Skrzypczak served as a director of Sirenza Microdevices, Inc. from January 2000 until it was acquired by the Company in November 2007. Mr. Skrzypczak’s appointment to the Board was made pursuant to the merger agreement for the Sirenza acquisition. From November 1999 to July 2001, Mr. Skrzypczak served as a Senior Vice President at Cisco Systems, a networking systems company, where he was responsible for the delivery and support of Cisco’s Products and Solutions for the Service Provider Market. He managed Cisco’s worldwide Professional Services Group. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Skrzypczak served as a Group President at Telcordia Technologies, a telecommunications company, from March 1997 to October 1999. From 1985 to March 1997, Mr. Skrzypczak served as President of NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of NYNEX Corporation, a telecommunications company. At NYNEX, Mr. Skrzypczak was responsible for the formulation of NYNEX’s technology plans and network architecture, including the management and direction of NYNEX’s research and development programs. Mr. Skrzypczak serves on the board of directors of a number of privately held companies. He previously served as a director of JDS Uniphase Corporation, a publicly traded optical communications, test and measurement company, from July 1997 to November 2011; RCN Corporation, a publicly traded cable service provider, from October 2009 to August 2010; ECI Telecom Ltd., a publicly traded supplier of telecommunications networking solutions, from July 2002 to September 2007; WebEx Communications, a publicly traded provider of web communications services, from August 2002 to June 2007; and Somera Communications, a publicly traded refurbished network equipment supplier, from October 2003 to September 2006. |
Erik van der Kaay |
Mr. Erik H. van der Kaay is an Independent Director of RF Micro Devices Inc., since July 1996. He was Chairman of the Board of Symmetricom Inc., a publicly traded synchronization products company based in San Jose, California, from November 2002 until August 2003. Mr. van der Kaay served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Datum Inc. (which merged with Symmetricom Inc. in October 2002) from April 1998 to October 2002. Mr. van der Kaay was employed with Allen Telecom, a telecommunications company based in Beachwood, Ohio that was an early investor in RFMD, from June 1990 to March 1998, and last served as its Executive Vice President. From March 2000 to March 2007 he was a director and chairman of Comarco, Inc., a publicly traded provider of advanced wireless technology tools and engineering services, and from September 1997 to May 2008 he was a director of TranSwitch Corporation, a publicly traded developer of integrated digital and mixed signal semiconductor solutions for the telecommunications and data communications markets. Since January 2004, Mr. van der Kaay has served as a director of Ball Corporation, a publicly traded supplier of metal products to the beverage and food industries and the parent company of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation. Since June 2007, Mr. van der Kaay has served as a director of the French company Orolia, SA, a manufacturer of high precision timing and instruments and systems. He has served as a managing director of Control SA, a Brazilian telecommunications company and a subsidiary of M/A-Com Inc. Since January 2007, Mr. van der Kaay has served as a member of the Southeast Audit Committee Leadership Network convened by Ernst & Young LLP and comprised of audit committee chairs of public companies. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Walter Wilkinson |
-- |
Robert Bruggeworth |
3,595,850 |
William Priddy |
1,621,670 |
Alan Hallberg |
-- |
James Stilson |
1,063,840 |
Barry Church |
-- |
Suzanne Rudy |
-- |
James Clifford |
-- |
Steven Creviston |
1,933,800 |
Norman Hilgendorf |
-- |
Daniel DiLeo |
-- |
Jeffery Gardner |
-- |
John Harding |
-- |
Masood Jabbar |
-- |
Casimir Skrzypczak |
-- |
Erik van der Kaay |
-- |
As Of 30 Mar 2012
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Walter Wilkinson |
0 | 0 |
Robert Bruggeworth |
1,456,260 | 2,597,075 |
William Priddy |
765,406 | 1,317,137 |
Alan Hallberg |
0 | 0 |
James Stilson |
0 | 0 |
Barry Church |
0 | 0 |
Suzanne Rudy |
0 | 0 |
James Clifford |
0 | 0 |
Steven Creviston |
600,360 | 1,350,315 |
Norman Hilgendorf |
0 | 0 |
Daniel DiLeo |
0 | 0 |
Jeffery Gardner |
0 | 0 |
John Harding |
0 | 0 |
Masood Jabbar |
0 | 0 |
Casimir Skrzypczak |
0 | 0 |
Erik van der Kaay |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
STILSON JAMES D |
75,140 | $0.00 |
PRIDDY WILLIAM ALDEEN JR |
115,685 | $0.00 |
BRUGGEWORTH ROBERT ALAN |
296,055 | $0.00 |
CREVISTON STEVEN ERIC |
153,850 | $0.00 |
HILGENDORF NORMAN A |
69,360 | $0.00 |
CHURCH BARRY D |
25,415 | $0.00 |
RUDY SUZANNE B |
25,415 | $0.00 |
PRIDDY WILLIAM ALDEEN JR |
24,452 | $5.64 |
BRUGGEWORTH ROBERT ALAN |
56,923 | $5.61 |
CHURCH BARRY D |
4,895 | $5.64 |
RUDY SUZANNE B |
4,895 | $5.64 |
BRUGGEWORTH ROBERT ALAN |
28,484 | $5.64 |
CREVISTON STEVEN ERIC |
14,800 | $5.64 |
HILGENDORF NORMAN A |
2,450 | $5.64 |
PRIDDY WILLIAM ALDEEN JR |
12,236 | $5.64 |
CHURCH BARRY D |
2,450 | $5.64 |
RUDY SUZANNE B |
2,450 | $5.64 |
CHURCH BARRY D |
4,370 | $5.49 |
RUDY SUZANNE B |
4,369 | $5.49 |
BRUGGEWORTH ROBERT ALAN |
50,695 | $5.52 |
BRUGGEWORTH ROBERT ALAN |
25,367 | $5.44 |
CHURCH BARRY D |
2,161 | $5.44 |
HILGENDORF NORMAN A |
2,113 | $5.44 |
RUDY SUZANNE B |
2,162 | $5.44 |
PRIDDY WILLIAM ALDEEN JR |
10,902 | $5.44 |

