QuickLogic Appoints Rajiv Jain, Vice President, Worldwide Operations
SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/20/14 -- QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), the innovator of ultra-low-power programmable Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs), today announced that Rajiv Jain has been promoted to Vice President, Worldwide Operations. Mr. Jain will be responsible for providing executive leadership for the operations department, including all manufacturing operations internal and external to the company.
QuickLogic's President and CEO Andy Pease commented, "Across a number of increasingly senior roles, Rajiv has consistently demonstrated exemplary leadership and management ability. Rajiv is, without a doubt, the most qualified person for this role and I am confident he will continue his dedication to the company as vice president of worldwide operations."
Mr. Jain served as QuickLogic's Senior Director of Operations and Development Engineering from 2011 to 2014, Senior Director of System Solutions and Process Technology from 2009 to 2011, Director of Process Technology from 1997 to 2009, and Senior Process Technologist from 1992 to 1997. Mr. Jain has driven margin improvements through cost optimization and on-going process efficiencies, as well as delivered quality improvements through enhanced process controls and supplier initiatives. In addition, Mr. Jain has been responsible for the successful implementation of QuickLogic products and technologies across multiple fabrication facilities and process nodes.
Prior to joining QuickLogic, Mr. Jain was a Senior Yield Engineer at National Semiconductor from 1991 to 1992, where he focused on BiCMOS product yield improvements, and at Monolithic Memories from 1985 to 1988, where he focused on BiPolar product yield and engineering wafer sort improvements.
Mr. Jain holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana, and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
About QuickLogic
QuickLogic Corporation is the inventor and pioneer of innovative, customizable semiconductor solutions for mobile and portable electronics OEMs and ODMs. These silicon plus software solutions are called Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs). CSSPs enable our customers to bring their products to market more quickly and remain in the market longer, with the low power, cost and size demanded by the mobile and portable electronics market. For more information about QuickLogic and CSSPs, visit www.quicklogic.com
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Released May 20, 2014
