Executive Team
John Bourgoin, Chief Executive Officer and President
Mr. Bourgoin brings more than 30 years of semiconductor experience to his role, drawing from past roles in business management and microprocessor development at MIPS Technologies and AMD, and earlier, in engineering management at Motorola Semiconductor Products Division in Phoenix.
Previously, Mr. Bourgoin was senior vice president of Silicon Graphics, Inc., and president of the MIPS Group of SGI. Prior to that, he was group vice president of the Computation Products Group at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Mr. Bourgoin received a B.S.E.E. from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Arizona State University.
Maury Austin, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Austin joined MIPS Technologies in 2008 with more than 25 years of corporate finance experience including executive positions at Apple Computer and General Electric Company. He is experienced in all aspects of corporate finance and strategy, including business model development and implementation, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions and corporate funding.
Most recently, Mr. Austin served as SVP & CFO of Portal Software, Inc., where, working with the executive staff, he drove the redevelopment of the company's business model and was instrumental in its subsequent acquisition by Oracle Corporation. Mr. Austin also played critical roles in improving shareholder value at Southwall Technologies, Symmetricom, Inc. and Vicinity Corporation.
Mr. Austin holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Sandy Creighton, Vice President of Corporate Administration
As Vice President of Corporate Administration, Ms. Creighton leads the corporate departments of human resources, legal and IT. Before assuming her current position, Ms. Creighton was Vice President of Human Resources for MIPS Technologies, and prior to that was Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Before joining MIPS Technologies in June 1998, Ms. Creighton was Deputy General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, Inc., serving as director of the products and technology legal department for the Computer Systems Group, Sun’s largest division
Prior to joining Sun in 1991, Ms. Creighton was a Business Associate at the law firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, where she provided a broad range of services for clients ranging from start-up ventures with new technologies to Fortune 500 companies.
Ms. Creighton holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University and a J.D. from Northwestern University.
Brad Holtzinger, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Corporate Marketing
Mr. Holtzinger joined MIPS Technologies in 2001 as the director of systems solutions and has more than 26 years of embedded industry experience in sales, marketing and engineering.
Mr. Holtzinger was salesman of the year at MIPS Technologies in his first year in sales. Subsequently, in his first year as vice president of sales, the Americas, he led the Americas team to record growth over the prior year. Mr. Holtzinger began his career at Motorola in 1979 and was one of the founding members of the Motorola Computer Group selling VME boards into the embedded market. In 1991 he joined Force Computers and established their embedded systems business unit. Additionally, he has had a successful career selling semiconductors as a manufacturer's representative for companies including Xilinx, PMC-Sierra, and Fujitsu, among others.
Mr. Holtzinger holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University.
Art Swift, Vice President of Marketing
Mr. Swift joined MIPS Technologies in 2009 to lead marketing efforts for the company’s global operations. He has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and executive management for semiconductor and processor IP companies.
Mr. Swift held a range of senior marketing and executive leadership roles for companies including Unidym, Inc. and Transmeta Corporation, a provider of low-power microprocessors and IP. Prior to Transmeta, Swift was COO at embedded software provider Lynuxworks and vice president and general manager of several large divisions of chipmaker Cirrus Logic. He also held senior marketing, business development and engineering positions with Summit Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment, Bipolar Integrated Technology, and Fairchild Semiconductor.
Mr. Swift holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He is co-inventor of three U.S. patents relating to programmable logic architectures.
Gail Shulman, General Counsel
Prior to assuming the role of General Counsel for MIPS Technologies, Ms. Shulman served as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary. Her responsibilities included a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including legal issues arising in international operations, mergers and acquisitions, employment, finance and facilities. Before joining MIPS Technologies in 1999, Ms. Shulman was the first in-house lawyer—establishing the legal department—for Axil Computer (a subsidiary of Hyundai Electronics). She also worked for Thelen, Reid, Brown, Raysman & Steiner for more than seven years, where she specialized in corporate and commercial transactions and mergers and acquisitions.
Ms. Shulman received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law; and her B.A. from the University of California, San Diego.
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