Sequoia Communications Expands
Management Team with Two Promotions
Reza
Kasnavi promoted to VP of product management, Duncan Pilgrim promoted
to VP of marketing
SAN DIEGO
– June 25, 2008 –Sequoia
Communications, the RF semiconductor company setting new benchmarks
in multimode design and integration, today announced two promotions
– Reza Kasnavi has been named the company’s VP of product management
and Duncan Pilgrim has assumed the role of VP of marketing.
“Both Reza and Duncan have demonstrated
superior engineering expertise and business acumen during their time
here, and their hard work has propelled Sequoia Communications into
the next phase of expansion and growth,” said Dave Shepard, CEO of Sequoia
Communications. “As Sequoia Communications’ technology continues to
evolve, our team is very appreciative to have such talented industry
veterans here to support the company and help take our efforts to the
next level.”
Kasnavi,
who previously served as director of product development, joined Sequoia
Communications in 2005 and brings more than 11 years of expertise in
the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Sequoia Communications,
Kasnavi was a Venture Partner at Tallwood Venture Capital. There he
made contributions to several start-ups, which led to significant production
volume of multiple products including the industry's only CMOS power
amplifier for GSM handsets and InP-based IC's for OC-192/768 optical
networking. Kasnavi also held positions at HP, IBM Microelectronics
and Stanford University, where he earned masters and doctorate degrees
in electrical engineering.
Pilgrim,
who joined Sequoia Communications in 2007 as the director of product
marketing, brings more than 14 years of RF engineering and marketing
experience to Sequoia Communications. Previously, Pilgrim was a strategic
marketing manager at RF Micro Devices (RFMD) where he was part of the
team charged with developing long-term planning and strategy. Before
his strategic marketing role at RFMD, he was a technical marketing manager
responsible for creating product requirements and successfully developing
relationships with customers and channel partners for RFMD’s cellular
chipset business. He also held positions as an RF IC Designer and RF
Applications Engineer at Mitel Semiconductors (formerly GEC Plessey
Semiconductor). Pilgrim holds a masters degree from Wake Forest University.
To
learn more about Kasnavi, Pilgrim and other members of the Sequoia Communications
management team, please visit:
http://www.sequoiacommunications.com/management.html.
About
Sequoia Communications
Privately-held Sequoia Communications
is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on multimode RF solutions.
The company uniquely integrates different modes using a common architecture
on a single chip enabling effective communications across multiple wireless
standards including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, GPS, WiMax and more. Single-chip
RF transceivers developed using Sequoia Communications’ innovative approach
and FullSpectra™ architecture will set new industry benchmarks in chip
cost, component count, PCB size and power consumption. Sequoia Communications
is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information, visit:
www.sequoiacommunications.com
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