Eric Lidow receives lifetime achievement award

The Reed Electronics Group has selected International Rectifier chairman and founder Eric Lidow as this year's recipient of the lifetime achievement award.

The Reed Electronics Group has selected International Rectifier chairman and founder Eric Lidow as this year's recipient of the lifetime achievement award.

The award is presented to an individual who has made a profound and lasting impact on the electronics industry.

Chairman of the Reed Electronics Group, Stephen Moylan, said, "This year's winner of the Elektra '06 lifetime achievement award is a truly worthy recipient".

"He has been a pioneer of a technology which has had a profound and lasting impact on power electronics and founded a company whose name is now instantly recognised around the globe as a leader and innovator in the power semiconductor market".

Lidow founded International Rectifier in 1947 and was an early pioneer of a then rare global enterprise business model.

Under his leadership, International Rectifier developed a number of key power management technologies now pervasive in the industry, among them the Hexfet power Mosfet.

The lifetime achievement award, part of the European Electronic Industry Awards, was presented at the Elektra '06 gala in Munich on 15 November.

Past recipients include Pasquale Pistorio, Dr Hermann Hauser, and Professor Hugo De Man.

Back to top