Mr. Ito has over 20 years of experience in Marketing, Sales, and Applications Engineering with semiconductors and storage devices. Before NuCORE, Mr. Ito was Japan Country Manager at Tripath Technology, a key supplier of digital audio amplifiers. Under his management, his territory became a major share of Tripath’s total revenue. Prior to Tripath, Mr. Ito was the Country Manager and Marketing Director for Western Digital Japan. Under his leadership Western Digital maintained number one market share in Japan for 3.5’ hard drives. In the preceding 10 years at Harris Japan KK, National Semiconductor Japan, and Perkin-Elmer Japan, Mr. Ito had various roles as an Applications manager and Applications Engineer. Mr. Ito has BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley.