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News Release from: Spansion
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 December 2006
Nawaz takes charge of wireless
operations
Ahmed Nawaz has been named Executive Vice President of Spansion's Wireless Solutions Division (WSD).
Spansion has announced the appointment of Ahmed Nawaz as Executive Vice President of the company's Wireless Solutions Division (WSD) Nawaz will report directly to the office of the CEO
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Ahmed is a high-calibre executive with significant experience running a multi-billion-dollar business", said Bertrand Cambou, President and CEO, Spansion.
"This experience makes him ideal for our Wireless Solutions Division, a division of great strategic importance to the company".
Most recently, Nawaz was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Agere Systems.
Prior to this, he was President of the Integrated Circuits Division of Lucent's Microelectronics Group, with full responsibility for the company's $2.5 billion IC business.
Additionally, Nawaz spent 14 years at Texas Instruments, where he held various engineering, applications, marketing and general management positions.
Nawaz has been a speaker and panellist at many industry conferences, including, Siggraph, NCGA, MicroSystems Forum, and other PC, wireless and communication conferences, and is a member of the board of directors of Digi International.
He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in business administration from Houston Baptist University.
"Spansion is a leader in one of the most exciting sectors of the semiconductor industry".
"As mobile phones continue to come packed with new services such as cameras, video, 3D gaming, stereophonic music and navigation so, too, are handset manufacturers pushing suppliers like us for more advanced memory systems", said Nawaz.
"I look forward to working with our wireless customers to meet their needs and help Spansion deliver continued innovation in Flash memory solutions".
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