BNET Industries
Market Cap:$98.6M
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$62.1M
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
We develop and market "Very Fast" static random access memory, or SRAM, products that are incorporated primarily in high-performance networking and telecommunications equipment, such as routers, switches, wide area network infrastructure equipment, wireless base stations and network access equipment. In addition, we serve the ongoing needs of the military, industrial, test equipment and medical markets for high-performance SRAMs. Based on the performance characteristics of our products and the breadth of our product portfolio, we consider ourselves to be a leading provider of Very Fast SRAMs. We sell our products to leading original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, customers including Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems and Huawei Technologies. We utilize a fabless business model, which allows us both to focus our resources on research and development, product design and marketing, and to gain access to advanced process technologies with only modest capital investment and fixed costs.
Number of Employees 108
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing: 334413
Recent Events
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Sunnyvale R&D building sold for $4.6M
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GSI Technology, Inc. to Announce Fiscal 2010 Second-Quarter Results on October 29, 2009
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GSI Technology acquires Sony's SRAM product line
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Directors Roster: a quarterly record of new director appointments
THE DIRECTOES & BROARDS Directors Roster--a quarterly record of new director appointments--is compiled from public and private sources by the editorial staff of DIRECTORS & BOARDS and is sponsored by Heidrick & Struggles. Please forward your directors' appointments to kmccarthy@directors-andboards.com. Submissions of new directors and appointments are welcome...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Douglas Schirle | Cfo |
| David Chapman | Vice President, Marketing |
| Didier Lasserre | Vice President, Sales |
| Leon Lee | Vice President, Telecomm Division |
| Ping Wu | Vice President, U.S. Operations |
| Robert Yau | Vice President, Engineering and Secretary |
| Suengliang Lee | Vice President, Telecommunications Division |
| Tak Ping | Vice President, U.S. Operations |
| Yu-Min Wu | Director of Ameroc Corp. |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Arthur O. Whipple | Board of Directors |
| Haydn Hsieh | Board of Directors |
| Jing Rong Tang | Board of Directors |
| Ruey L. Lu | Board of Directors |
| Ruey-Lin Lu | Board of Directors |
Douglas Schirle has served as our Chief Financial Officer since August 2000. From June 1999 to August 2000, Mr. Schirle served as our Corporate Controller. From March 1997 to June 1999, Mr. Schirle was the Corporate Controller at Pericom Semiconductor Corporation, a provider of digital and mixed signal integrated circuits. From November 1996 to February 1997, Mr. Schirle was Vice President, Finance for Paradigm Technology, a manufacturer of SRAMs, and from December 1993 to October 1996, he was the Controller for Paradigm Technology. Mr. Schirle was formerly a certified public accountant.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Cfo | Current |
| Paradigm Technology, Inc. | Vice President, Finance | Former |
| Paradigm Technology, Inc. | Controller | Former |
| Pericom Semiconductor Corporation | Corporate Controller | Former |
David Chapman has served as our Vice President, Marketing since July 2002. From November 1998 to June 2002, Mr. Chapman served as our Director of Strategic Marketing and Applications Engineering. From February 1988 to November 1998, Mr. Chapman served in various product planning and applications engineering management capacities in the Memory Operation division and later the Fast SRAM division of Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector, Motorola, Inc., an electronics manufacturer. Mr. Chapman has been a member of JEDEC since 1985, and served as Chairman of its SRAM committee in 1999.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Vice President, Marketing | Current |
Didier Lasserre has served as our Vice President, Sales since July 2002. From November 1997 to July 2002, Mr. Lasserre served as our Director of Sales for the Western United States and Europe. From July 1996 to October 1997, Mr. Lasserre was an account manager at Solectron Corporation, a provider of electronics manufacturing services. From June 1988 to July 1996, Mr. Lasserre was a field sales engineer at Cypress Semiconductor, a semiconductor company.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Vice President, Sales | Current |
| Solectron Corporation | Account Manager | Former |
| Cypress Semiconductor Corporation | Field Sales Engineer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Vice President, Telecomm Division | Current |
Ping Wu has served as our Vice President, U.S. Operations since September 2006. He served in the same capacity from February 2004 to April 2006. From April 2006 to August 2006, Mr. Wu was Vice President of Operations at QPixel Technology, a semiconductor company. From July 1999 to January 2004, Mr. Wu served as our Director of Operations. From July 1997 to June 1999, Mr. Wu served as Vice President of Operations at Scan Vision, a semiconductor manufacturer.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Vice President, U.S. Operations | Current |
| Scan Vision | Vice President of Operations | Former |
Robert Yau co-founded our company in March 1995 and has served as our Vice President, Engineering and as a member of our Board of Directors since inception. From December 1993 to February 1995, Mr. Yau was design manager for specialty memory devices at Sony Microelectronics Corporation. From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Yau was design manager at MOSEL/VITELIC, a semiconductor company.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Vice President, Engineering and Secretary | Current |
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Mosel Vitelic Corp | Design Manager | Former |
Suengliang (Leon) Lee has served as our Vice President, Telecommunications Division since December 1999. From July 1996 to November 1999, Mr. Lee was Director of Engineering at Lucent Technologies, a telecommunications equipment company. From October 1993 to June 1996, Mr. Lee was an engineering manager at Nortel Networks, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Vice President, Telecommunications Division | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Vice President, U.S. Operations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Director of Ameroc Corp. | Current |
Art Whipple joined PLX Technology as Chief Financial Officer in January of 2007. Prior to PLX, he was VP of finance, CFO and secretary at Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. He was previously with QuickLogic Corp., where he served initially as its VP of finance, CFO and secretary, then as VP and GM of its logic products business unit. Prior to QuickLogic, he was VP of engineering for ILC Technology, and also as vice president of finance and operations of its subsidiary, Precision Lamp. Earlier in his career, Whipple served in financial and engineering roles at other semiconductor manufacturing companies, including Westinghouse Electric, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Monolithic Memories. He holds a bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, and a master's degree in business administration from Santa Clara University.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PLX Technology, Inc. | Chief Financial Officer | Current |
| Teknovus, Inc. | Current | |
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| QuickLogic Corporation | Cfo | Former |
| Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. | Cfo | Former |
| Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. | Vice President, Finance | Former |
| QuickLogic Corporation | Vice President, Business Dev | Former |
| QuickLogic Corporation | Gm | Former |
| Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. | Corporate Controller | Former |
| Westinghouse Electric Company LLC | Former | |
| QuickLogic Corporation | Secretary | Former |
| Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. | Secretary | Former |
| Santa Clara University | MBA | Former |
| University of Santa Clara | MBA | Former |
| University of Washington | B.S.E.E. | Former |
Haydn Hsieh was elected to GSI Technology's Board of Directors in August 2008. Mr. Hsieh has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Wistron NeWeb Corporation, a manufacturer of wireless communications products, since June 2000. From February 1981 through June 2000, Mr. Hsieh served in various capacities at several divisions of Acer Group, including President of the Mobile Computing Business Unit and Senior Vice President, Acer Inc. Mr. Hsieh graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology in Taiwan.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
Ruey L. Lu has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2000. Mr. Lu is the President of EMPIA Technology, a semiconductor solutions company, which he founded in January 2002. From March 1993 to December 2000, Mr. Lu served as President of ARK Logic, a storage device and software applications company, which he founded in March 1993. From October 1989 to February 1993, Mr. Lu served as Director of Engineering in the Imaging Product Division of Western Digital, an information storage company.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gsi Technology, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
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