HEADLINE: Actel Names New Worldwide Sales Vice President Taps Former Sharp
Executive
DATELINE: SUNNYVALE, Calif.
BODY:
Feb. 7, 1996--John East, president and CEO of Actel Corporation, today
announced the appointment of Douglas D. Goodyear as the company's vice
president, Worldwide Sales.
Goodyear, a 17 year veteran of electronic systems and component sales, will
join Actel on February 20, replacing M. Douglas Rankin who has chosen to retire
after 10 years with the Company. Rankin will assist in the transition and
remain with Actel in an advisory capacity.
Doug Goodyear is vacating the position of vice president of North American
Sales for Sharp Electronics in Camas, Wash., where he headed a 65 person direct
selling organization that accounts for over $ 700 million in electronic
component, disk drive, and CCD camera sales. During a four year period at
Sharp, Goodyear grew sales four-fold while reorganizing the company's direct
sales and industrial distribution network.
Before joining Sharp, Goodyear held sales and sales management positions at
Hitachi, AMD and Signetics (now Philips Semiconductor).
"Doug Goodyear has excellent systems and component selling experience and
has successfully built and managed a rapidly growing sales function similar to
Actel's. We are looking to Doug to help take Actel to the next level of
customer satisfaction as we move toward the $ 500 million mark by evolving and
growing the excellent organization and programs developed by Doug Rankin," East
said when making the announcement.
Goodyear holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Nebraska
in Industrial Management and Computer Science.
Doug and his family will relocate to the Bay Area in the near future.
About Actel
Actel Corporation is the world's leading supplier of antifuse-based field
programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and associated software development tools.
FPGAs are used by designers of voice and data communication, computer, medical
and industrial control, and military/aerospace, and other electronic systems to
differentiate their products and get them to market.
PAGE 6
Business Wire, February 7, 1996
Actel's proprietary, cost-effective antifuse architecture offers system size
and performance advantages, as well as increased gate utilization and high level
design efficiencies. Actel is dedicated to providing logic designers with the
capability to move up to higher complexity designs with confidence. Actel is
traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol ACTL and is located at 955
E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4533. Telephone: 408/739-1010. Internet
address: actel.com
CONTACT: Actel Corporation
H. Buford Barr, 408/522-4368
buford@actel.com
or
Walt & Company
Erin Curtis/Kellie DiNaro, 408/496-0900 |
