Piero Martinotti | Chairman
Mr. Martinotti has served as Chairman of the Board since 2006. Until 2003 he was Corporate Vice President of STMicroelectronics, responsible for its New Ventures Group, which was created to identify, evaluate and incubate opportunities for new business development. Prior to that, Mr. Martinotti has served in a number of leadership roles including CEO of Innovative Silicon Technology and Corporate Director of Technology and Strategy for SGS. He started his career at Motorola Semiconductors. Mr. Martinotti is currently a board member of Upek.
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Federico Arcelli | Chief Executive Officer
Joining Accent in 2007, Federico Arcelli brings more than 22 years of experience in the semiconductor, IP and communications industries. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Arcelli worked as Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at VeriSilicon, a leading Design Foundry headquartered in North America. He also worked as Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Vice President of Sales EMEA at CEVA (NASDAQ: CEVA), a leading licensor of semiconductor IP. In this role, he contributed to more than $50M in revenue generation.
Mr. Arcelli advanced to CEVA from Texas Instruments, where he held various management positions including DSP and OMAP third-party Manager and European ASIC Marketing Manager. Earlier, he acted as Engineering Manager for Italtel S.p.A. (Italy). At the beginning of his career he held various R&D positions at Allied Signal Bendix, Baltimore, MD and at Agusta Sistemi S.p.A. (Italy).
Mr. Arcelli received an Electrical Engineering degree, summa cum laude, from University of Rome "La Sapienza".
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Alexander Duesener | Board Member
Mr. Duesener has served on the board since 2008. Mr. Duesener serves as Head of International Business Development, Field Marketing & of the Account Managers of Technologies based in Munich, Germany since October 2008. Since joining Cadence early 2005, Duesener has been instrumental in helping to define and drive implementation of innovative marketing strategies around core products, and new strategic initiatives such as Cadence kits for vertical markets and product segmentation. Prior to Cadence, he spent 6 1/2 years at Intel in a variety of positions such as Technical Advisor for Intel's Enterprise Platforms Group and managed the Itanium(r) and Xeon(tm) processor families in EMEA from 2001-2003 where he held overall business responsibility for both product lines. Earlier in his career, in the area of product marketing, he drove geographic product requirements for Itanium microprocessors back into the core business units.
Duesener holds a Double Diploma in European Business Studies including a BA(Hons) from Oxford Brookes University (UK) and a Dipl. Betriebswirt from Regensburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany).
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Pasquale Pistorio | Board Member
Mr. Pistorio has served on the Board of Directors since 2006. He is the former President and CEO of STMicroelectronics, bringing a wealth of expertise on the global microelectronics industry. In addition to his involvement with Accent, Pistorio sits on the Boards of the Fiat Group (Italy), Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (Singapore), Brembo (Italy) and serves as Chairman of the Board at Sagem Wireless (France) and Atos Origin (France). In 2004 – 2007, he was a Member of the Board at Telecom Italia and its Chairman from April to December 2007. Mr. Pistorio spent the first part of his career with Motorola before taking the helm of ltaly's SGS Microelettronica in 1980. After SGS and France's Thomson Semiconducteurs merged to create SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics, now STMicroelectronics, he led the company to one of the top five semiconductor companies in the industry.
Mr. Pistorio graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin with a Degree in Electrical Engineering.
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Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli | Board Member
Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has served on the board since 1993. He has been the Chief Technology Advisor of Cadence Design Systems Inc. since June 1999, which he co-founded as well. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976.
He was a Co-Founder of SDA Systems Inc. as well as a Co-founder of Synopsys. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli consulted for a number of U.S. companies including IBM, Intel, ATT, GE, Harris, Nynex, HP, United Technology, and Japanese companies including Kawasaki Steel, where he held the title of Chief Technology Advisor, Fujitsu, Sony, and Hitachi, and European companies including ST Microelectronics, Alcatel, Daimler-Chrysler, Ericsson, Magneti-Marelli, BMW, Bull, and COMAU.
Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli received an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degree, "Dottore in Ingegneria", summa cum laude, from the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy in 1971.
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Jean Schmitt | Board Member
Mr. Schmitt has served on the board since 2006. He is a Managing Partner at Sofinnova Partners since December 2001. He focuses on opportunities in the IT sector. Prior to joining, he was the CEO and founder of SLP InfoWare, a world leader in predictive customer relationship management software for the telecom industry, which he sold to Gemplus in 2000. Jean then became Vice President, Telecom Solutions and Applications at Gemplus. He serves on the Board of Directors of Upek, Inc., Blyk, Inside Contactless, Sagem Wireless.
He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) and has a post-graduate degree in Artificial Intelligence.
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Marco Vismara | Board Member
Mr. Vismara has served on the board since 2006. He is CEO of Cape Natixis SGR SpA and Chairman and CEO of Cape Live (Listed Investment Vehicle in Equity) SpA, Cape Group's investment company. Before joining Cape he was General Manager of the Italian branch of Antfactory (international venture capital), Vice Chairman of Monitor Group (American strategic consulting group advising large corporations and private equity funds), senior analyst for Arca Merchant (merchant bank of Banche Popolari del Nord-Est) and in the Montedison Group.
Marco wrote several articles and texts on marketing, strategy and finance. He is certified accountant and holds a business degree summa cum laude from Bocconi University in Milan.
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