Michael Hackworth
Description Mr. Hackworth, age 69, is currently Chairman of the Board of the Company, a position he has held since July 1997. Between March 5, 2007, and May 16, 2007, Mr. Hackworth was the Company?s Acting President and Chief Executive Officer (?CEO?). Mr. Hackworth continued to support Dr. Rhode as an employee of the Company until July 27, 2007, and acted as a consultant to the Company until September 30, 2007. He previously served as President and CEO of the Company from January 1985 to June 1998, and continued to serve as CEO until February 1999. Mr. Hackworth was also the co-founder of Tymphany Corporation, a provider of audio transducers for loudspeakers. He served as Chief Executive Officer between 2002 and May 2007, and as a director and Chairman of the Board from 2002 until October 2008. In addition, Mr. Hackworth has been a director since March 2000 of Virage Logic Corporation, a publicly traded provider of semiconductor intellectual property platforms and development tools, and a director since November 2007 of Epicor Software Corporation, a publicly traded vendor of enterprise business software products. Prior to working at Cirrus Logic, Mr. Hackworth spent 31 years serving in positions of increasing responsibility with Signetics Corp., a subsidiary of N.V. Philips, Motorola Semiconductor, and Fairchild Semiconductor. Mr. Hackworth holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Santa Clara. To view the detailed information, you need to SUBSCRIBE with us. |
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