MINNETONKA, Minn., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MathStar, Inc. , the FPOA(TM) leader, today announced that Glen Wiley has joined the company as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Mr. Wiley comes to MathStar most recently from Flextronics where he was Vice President of Semiconductor Applications Communications Sector in the Corporate Technology Group. In his two previous positions, Mr. Wiley was Vice President and General Manager, Digital ASIC Division of Orbit Semiconductor and Vice President Worldwide Sales of Pericom Semiconductor.
"We are very pleased to have a sales executive of Glen's caliber join the MathStar team," said Doug Pihl, Chief Executive Officer. "His extensive semiconductor sales experience will enable us to scale both our sales team and our customer base in the next few years. MathStar now has the management team to establish the Field Programmable Object Array as the next generation of programmable logic." Mr. Wiley will assume his new role on January 9, 2006.
About MathStar
MathStar designs, develops and markets a new class of semiconductor integrated circuit it calls Field Programmable Object Arrays, or FPOAs. MathStar is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, with a facility in Hillsboro, Oregon.
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