News Release from: Peregrine Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 June 2006

Ensley is elected to the board

Craig H Ensley has joined the Peregrine Semiconductor executive team as President and Chief Operating Officer, and has been elected to the board of directors.

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Craig H Ensley has joined the Peregrine Semiconductor executive team as President and Chief Operating Officer, and has been elected to the board of directors. Ensley has 30 years of broad experience in the semiconductor and systems technology industries, spanning venture capital startups to multi-hundred-million-dollar public corporations. Most recently Craig was with Cirrus Logic, where he led repositioning of the firm to be a highly profitable mixed-signal analogue IC company.

He brings to Peregrine a strong vision for disruptive semiconductor technology, a deep strategic and product planning background, extensive knowledge in executing high-growth businesses, and exceptional leadership and team-building skills which attract and motivate a talented workforce.

Ensley will be responsible for leading Peregrine's operations in order to meet the market's explosive demand for UltraCMOS RFICs.

'We set out to fill a tall order: to find an individual with not only a strong background ramping a start-up IC company, but also an understanding of the complex issues associated with a billion dollar company', said Jim Cable, CEO of Peregrine Semiconductor.

'Craig's relevant mixed-signal product experience, global business relationships, and comprehensive understanding of the IC industry made him an ideal candidate'.

'His impressive ability to establish a vision and motivate a corporation toward operational excellence made him the right choice for Peregrine'.

'His leadership, loyalty and extraordinary sense of fundamental business operations will ensure that the foundation on which we are building Peregrine is rock solid, and poised for the decade ahead', he added.

'The Peregrine opportunity is an intensely exciting and challenging one', said Ensley.

'The high-performance mixed-signal business is large and growing; our growth markets - such as mobile handsets and broadband RF - are innovative and leading-edge; and our proprietary UltraCMOS technology is truly revolutionary'.

'The talent in the company is unmatched in our industry'.

'Couple these facts with the momentum Peregrine has developed in the recent couple of years, and I'm thrilled at the opportunity to join the team', he added.

Prior to Ensley's position as Senior Vice President of Cirrus Logic, he was an executive in the team which started Crystal Semiconductor, a highly successful mixed-signal IC company which pioneered high performance analogue IC design using industry-standard CMOS wafer processing.

At Crystal, Ensley was initially Vice President of Marketing and subsequently General Manager of several divisions as it grew from pre-revenue to more than $300 million annual revenues within 10 years.

Previously Ensley led marketing for the semiconductor division of Rockwell International where his team started and built a dominant and enduring position as the world's leading supplier of modem ICs.

Ensley has an MBA from Stanford University and BS degrees in both applied physics and economics from the University of California at San Diego.

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