Appointed Chief Financial Officer September 2005. Mr. Neely has more than 24 years of financial and operations management experience in the semiconductor and electronic design automation (EDA) industries, as well as start-up company environments. He was most recently chief financial officer of NuCORE Technology, a privately held developer of leading-edge digital and analog imaging devices for digital still and video cameras. Prior to working at NuCORE, Mr. Neely was the principal of his own consulting practice. He has also served as chief financial officer of Alventive, chief financial officer and Interim chief executive officer of Beyond.com, vice president of Finance and Operations at Synopsys, and vice president and corporate controller of Heartport. Most notably, Mr. Neely spent 16 years, from 1980 to 1996, with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in a variety of senior financial management positions worldwide. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Whitman College. |