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Chartered appointed industry veteran Kevin Meyer as vice president of industry marketing and platform alliances in June 2007, reporting directly to the CEO. In this role, Mr. Meyer leads the team working with IBM and Samsung to drive an industry platform initiative for single-design, multi-sourcing solutions based on designs down to 32nm, building on a collaborative development relationship which also includes Infineon, Freescale and STMicroelectronics. Previously, Mr. Meyer was vice president of worldwide marketing and services, leading the global organization that drove the Company's strategy, as well as its product, corporate and regional marketing initiatives.
Mr. Meyer has more than 25 years of broad IDM, foundry, and systems experience in the industry and has been with Chartered for a total of seven years. Four years ago, he returned to Chartered after almost two years as the vice president of marketing for MIPS Technologies, an intellectual property company specializing in microprocessors. Mr. Meyer also draws on over 15 years of experience at Motorola, where he held a number of global executive positions in sales, marketing, operations and engineering. In the early 1990s, he was the head of RISC marketing at Motorola when Apple, IBM, and Motorola formed the AIM alliance for PowerPC. He was also the general manager of Motorola's Computer Group in Asia/Pacific & Japan in the mid 1990s when Motorola licensed the MacOS and built Mac & Windows NT-compatible computers in Nanjing, China. There, he was chairman of one of Motorola's five joint ventures. Mr. Meyer has degrees in business administration, computer science, and industrial technology.
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