MILPITAS, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sipex Corporation today announced the appointment of John Ryu to the position of Country Manager for Korea. Ryu brings several years of technical and sales experience in Korea, most recently from Semtech and LG Electronics. Mr. Ryu will be opening an office in Seoul, where the field applications engineering team will also be based.
"We are very pleased to add John to our sales leadership team," said Rick Hawron, senior VP for worldwide sales at Sipex. "His strong background in power management circuit design, field applications engineering and sales management is ideal for this position. John's addition is another step towards our continued growth of global technical and sales support teams."
During his eight years at Semtech, Mr. Ryu was a key member of the team that successfully launched a series of multi-channel charge pumps, and penetrated Korea's largest cell phone manufacturer. He holds a BEE from Dong-A University, South Korea.
About Sipex Corporation
Sipex Corporation is a semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and markets high performance, value-added analog integrated circuits (IC). Sipex serves the broad analog signal processing market with interface, power management and optical storage ICs for use in automotive, portable products, computing, communications, and networking infrastructure markets. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California with additional offices in Billerica, MA, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Japan and Taiwan. Sipex sells products direct and through its distribution channels. For more information about Sipex, visit http://www.sipex.com/.
For additional information, contact:
Rick Hawron, Sr. VP Worldwide Sales
Tel: 408-934-7500
Fax: 408-935-7604
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