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From 2019 and prior to it being acquired by Sivers Semiconductor in February 2022, he served as Chief Executive Officer of MixComm Inc., the millimeter wave semiconductor company. He previously served as board director of Energous (NASDAQ: WATT) from 2019 to 2021. Prior to that, from Mr. Noonen served as SVP Global Business Development at Rambus Incorporated (NASDAQ: RMBS) from 2018 to 2019, as Global VP Sales & Marketing at Silego Technology Inc. from 2016 to 2017 and as Interim CEO and on the board of directors of Ambiq Micro, Inc. from 2014 to 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Noonen served as the Chairman and co-founder of Silicon Catalyst from 2013 to 2015, the World’s first semiconductor incubator and EE Times 2015 Start-up of the Year. In 2013, he was elected to the Global Semiconductor Alliance Board of Directors and chairman of the board of Socle, an IC design services company in Taiwan, which was acquired by Foxconn. Previously, Mr. Noonen was Executive Vice President, Global Products, Design, Sales, & Marketing at GlobalFoundries from 2011 to 2013 and Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing, at NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) from 2008 to 2011. Mr. Noonen has held executive product line, sales and marketing roles at National Semiconductor from 2001 to 2008, Cisco Systems from 1999 to 2001, and 8×8 from 1993 to 1999. He started his career at NCR Microelectronics teaching mixed-signal IC design. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University and in 2012 was named the College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni of the Year. He completed the Directors’ Consortium (Stanford, University of Chicago, Dartmouth) Corporate Governance program. Mr. Noonen holds multiple patents in the areas of Internet telephony and video communications.
