VP Marketing at MIPS Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area
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- VP Marketing at MIPS Technologies
- Board Member at Foothill-De Anza Foundation
- Past
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- Board Member at Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.
- President and CEO at Unidym, Corp
- President and CEO at Transmeta
- President and CEO at Transmeta Corporation
- VP Marketing and Business Development at Summit Microelectronics
- Chief Operating Officer at LynuxWorks
- President and Chief Operating Officer at ISD
- Vice President and General Manager at Cirrus Logic
- VP Marketing at Sun Microsystems
- VP Marketing and Sales at Digital Equipment
- VP Marketing at Bipolar Integrated Technology
- Product Engineer, Product Marketing Engineer, Product Planning Manager at Fairchild Semiconductor
- Education
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- Penn State
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Art Swift’s Summary
Public company CEO with experience in SOX and other regulatory compliance; Certified Director, UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management; Proven track record for managing growth and turn-arounds; Breadth of executive management experience in private and public companies; Successful fund raising experience (angels, venture capital, public markets); Marketing expert with keen understanding of all aspects of technology marketing; Demonstrated expertise in building alliances with global technology companies; Personal experience with IPO’s, spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions
Art Swift’s Experience
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VP Marketing
MIPS Technologies
(Public Company; MIPS; Semiconductors industry)
March 2009 — Present (10 months)
MIPS Technologies is the world’s second largest semiconductor design IP company and the number one analog IP company worldwide. With more than 250 customers around the globe, MIPS Technologies powers some of the world’s most popular products for the digital consumer, broadband, wireless communications, networking and portable media markets.
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Board Member
Foothill-De Anza Foundation
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2006 — Present (4 years )
Member of the Foothill-De Anza Foundation Board of Directors and member of the Finance Committee of the Board. The mission of the FHDA Foundation is to raise and invest funds to support the educational excellence of Foothill and De Anza colleges. The Foothill-De Anza Foundation is a tax-exempt public benefit corporation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code.
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Board Member
Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.
(Biotechnology industry)
November 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Ensysce Biosciences Inc. is a privately-held company focused on research into the medical therapeutic applications of carbon nanotubes. The inception of Ensysce stems from the final research interests of the late Dr. Richard Smalley, the 1996 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry from Rice University, who was among the pioneers in considering the potential therapeutic applications for carbon nanotubes.
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President and CEO
Unidym, Corp
(Privately Held; Nanotechnology industry)
June 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 7 months)
Unidym, a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR), uses nanotechnology to produce high-performance, cost-effective products for the electronics industry. The Company possesses patented technologies and industry-leading capabilities in the synthesis and application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a nanostructured form of the highly abundant element.
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President and CEO
Transmeta
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; TMTA; Semiconductors industry)
March 2003 — February 2007 (4 years )
Transmeta engages in the development and licensing of computing, microprocessor, and semiconductor technologies, and related intellectual property. It designs and develops, low-power x86-compatible software-based microprocessors. In addition, the company offers power management technologies for controlling leakage and increase of power efficiency in semiconductor and computing devices.The company has licensing agreements with NEC, Fujitsu, Sony and Toshiba, as well as strategic alliances with AMD and Microsoft. Previously served as Transmeta's Sr. VP Marketing from March 2003 to March 2005.
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President and CEO
Transmeta Corporation
(Public Company; Semiconductors industry)
2003 — 2007 (4 years )
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VP Marketing and Business Development
Summit Microelectronics
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year )
Responsible for marketing and business development for privately-held programmable analog chip supplier. Co-defined several new products with leading networking suppliers which have seen wide-spread design-in
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Chief Operating Officer
LynuxWorks
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
Chief operating officer in the Office of the President responsible for day-to-day operations of privately-held supplier of LynxOS Real Time Operating System, BlueCat Linux, tools and services for the embedded systems market.
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President and Chief Operating Officer
ISD
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
Prior to acquisition by Lynuxworks, served as President and Chief Operating Officer of ISDCorp with responsibility for all facets of this privately-held embedded Linux and services company.
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Vice President and General Manager
Cirrus Logic
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CRUS; Semiconductors industry)
1996 — 2000 (4 years )
Vice President and General Manager, Magnetic Storage
Vice President and General Manager, Optical Storage
Vice President and General Manager, PC Products
VP Marketing for both Graphics and PC Products -
VP Marketing
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Semiconductors industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years )
As Vice President of Marketing for Sun's SPARC Technology Business, managed worldwide marketing organization for Sun’s semiconductor division. Products included microprocessors, system logic chipsets, networking and graphics chips, and single board computers. Also responsible for market launch of Sun's new UltraSPARC microprocessor.
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VP Marketing and Sales
Digital Equipment
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Semiconductors industry)
1992 — 1994 (2 years )
Managed worldwide marketing and sales organization for Digital's semiconductor products including Alpha microprocessors, StrongARM, system logic chipsets and PCI peripherals. Established sales and marketing infrastructure. Developed and implemented take to market strategy for all products for formerly captive foundry. Negotiated technology license with leading processor core provider ARM Limited.
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VP Marketing
Bipolar Integrated Technology
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)
1987 — 1992 (5 years )
Responsible for all marketing functions for privately held designer and manufacturer of bit-slice processors, floating point co-processors, ECL versions of SPARC and Mips microprocessors. Customers included HP, Apollo, Floating Point Systems, Celerity, Mips and Sun, as well as many other workstation, super minicomputer, and minicomputer makers.. Also held positions as Strategic Marketing Manger, acting Product Engineering and Yield Enhancement Manager. Contributed to the growth of BIT from $200K in yearlly revenues to $23M.
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Product Engineer, Product Marketing Engineer, Product Planning Manager
Fairchild Semiconductor
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)
1980 — 1987 (7 years )
Positions with Digital Logic Division, So. Portland ME; Gate Array Division, Milpitas, CA; and Memory & High Speed Logic Division, Puyallup, WA.
Art Swift’s Education
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Penn State
BS , Electrical Engineering , 1976 — 1980
- Activities and Societies:
- President, Zeta Psi social fraternity; member Eta Kappa Nu honor society.
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Art Swift’s Honors:
Co-inventor of 3 US Patents relating to Programmable Logic Architecture (4942319; 5081375; 5021689).
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