Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 1 April 2003
Simson succeeds Parrillo
Motorola has named Dr Claudine Simson Corporate Vice President of Motorola and Chief Technology Officer and Director of DigitalDNAT Laboratories for Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector
Motorola has named Dr Claudine Simson Corporate Vice President of Motorola and Chief Technology Officer and Director of DigitalDNAT Laboratories (DDL) for Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS). Dr Simson, who previously held executive research and development positions during her 23-year career at Nortel Networks, was Chief Technology Officer at IPValue Management, an emerging company specialising in the commercialisation of corporate intellectual property.
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Her appointment is effective immediately.
"Claudine's extensive business experience with a direct Motorola customer and her exemplary track record of R and D strategic leadership make her uniquely qualified to assume this role at Motorola", said Chris Belden, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Technology and Manufacturing for Motorola.
"As a distinguished scientist who has made significant contributions to the field of information and communication technology, she is a great match for developing and promoting our technologies into the marketplace, and brings a special focus on partnering and licensing to the role".
Dr Simson is credited with building Nortel Networks' Microelectronics business starting as a device physicist.
She was one of the key scientists behind the launch of the world's first single-chip filter codec - a landmark achievement in the history of digital switching.
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In the early 1990s she became General Manager of Nortel's semiconductor operation, responsible for all aspects of R and D and manufacturing of the company's proprietary CMOS and BiCMOS processes and packaging technologies, as well as mixed signal VLSI component designs.
She led the establishment of the key hardware technologies behind Nortel's optical broadband transport systems.
Finally, as Nortel Networks' Vice President of Disruptive Technology Solutions, she led emerging technology investments and strategic alliances, while identifying forward-thinking business and technology trends and directing corporate standards and intellectual property strategy across a product portfolio over $25 billion.
"Motorola is a great company with a solid foundation and a promising future", commented Dr Simson.
"I am looking forward to leading an outstanding technology team and taking Motorola and its customers to new heights while leveraging world-class global partnerships in microelectronics".
Born and educated in France, Dr Simson earned a bachelor's honours degree in electrical engineering in 1975 and a doctorate in semiconductor physics in 1978 from l'Institut National des Sciences Appliquees in Toulouse, France.
She carried out her doctoral research as a premier scholar of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the Laboratoire d'Automatique et d'Analyse des Systemes (LAAS).
Dr Simson has been invited to make multilingual presentations around the globe on industry and technology trends, as well as presentations to executive women groups.
She has served on many boards.
Some of her current roles include Chairman of the Microelectronics Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada, Vice Chairman of the Fields Institute (the Fields Medal is an international award for Mathematics equivalent to the Nobel prize), and member of the advisory board of the University of California.
A recipient of numerous awards, Dr Simson has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of Women in Technology International (WITI) and elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science).
She is a recipient of three honorary doctorates and The Order of France for the Worldwide Advancement of Technology.
Dr Simson is also known in the community for devoting her personal time to numerous charitable causes.
She plans to relocate from Ottawa, Canada to Austin, Texas, with her husband and two teenage daughters.
Dr Simson succeeds Dr Louis C Parrillo, who has chosen to retire after a distinguished 18-year career with Motorola.
Dr Parrillo came to Motorola in 1985 from Bell Labs.
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