Sherburne brings startup experience

Chip Express has appointed Jon Sherburne as Vice President of Worldwide Sales.

Chip Express has appointed Jon Sherburne as Vice President of Worldwide Sales.

Sherburne was formerly the top senior sales executive at both Centillium Communications and Maker Communications, where he helped guide those high-tech companies from the startup phase into market leadership positions.

At Chip Express, Sherburne will oversee worldwide sales efforts, including marketplace development, strategic account growth, and distribution management.

He will develop strategies for identifying, penetrating, and managing OEM and direct accounts.

He will also grow Chip Express' sales organisation, expanding sales offices (in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America) and hiring key personnel.

Sherburne will report directly to Chip Express President and CEO, Stephen McMinn.

"Jon Sherburne possesses a rare combination of persuasive sales talents, management skills, industry knowledge, and a proven track record", said McMinn.

"The Chip Express executive team and board of directors are confident that Jon is well-equipped to tackle our aggressive revenue and global expansion objectives".

"I look forward to the challenge of building a global sales organisation that can take Chip Express to the next level of success", said Sherburne.

"The company's new family of highly refined gate arrays reduces rising mask costs, which currently present a powerful challenge to the ASIC design and production budgets of startups, as well as established OEMs and chipmakers.

We will target mid-volume vertical market segments such as automotive telematics, computer peripherals, high-end consumer electronic products, industrial control, and medical equipment".

Jon Sherburne joins Chip Express after spending the past year as Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Cognigine Corp, a startup company in the network processor space.

Before that, he was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for leading DSL chipset vendor Centillium Communications.

As the first sales employee at Centillium, Sherburne built a global team of salespeople, FAEs and sales reps, which in two years won 108 new designs at major telecomms/datacomms accounts.

He helped grow Centillium's revenues from $3.8 million in 1999 to $159 million in 2001.

At Maker Communications, a manufacturer of semiconductor ICs for communications equipment, Sherburne won over 30 designs with major telecomms/datacomms companies.

During his two-year tenure at Maker, revenues grew from $1.2 million in 1997 to $17 million in 1999.

Sherburne also spent nine years with VLSI Technology in various management positions, and earlier held sales and engineering positions at Advanced Micro Devices and Texas Instruments.

Sherburne has a BS in physics from the University of Santa Clara, and an MS in scientific instrumentation from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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