David Sowards serves as Virage Logic�s Vice President of Non-Volatile Memory Products. Prior to joining Virage Logic in July 2005, Sowards served as Vice President of Engineering for fabless Smart Card IC maker, Emosyn International, an SST company. Sowards joined Emosyn in 1998 where he established the design organization and developed products that grew to over 200 million units being shipped by mid 2005.
Prior to Emosyn, Sowards served as Director of Engineering at Information Storage Devices (ISD), a maker of devices for the audio market that used analog level storage on conventional floating gate non-volatile technology. Prior to ISD, Sowards held various engineering and management positions at Exar, Catalyst Semiconductor, Wafer Scale Integration, Xicor, and Sperry Univac.
Sowards holds a BSEE degree from the University of Utah. |