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Prior to his most recent appointment in April 2007 Cobar served as Silicon Image’s senior director strategic accounts and Americas sales where he was instrumental in developing and spearheading the company’s overall strategic account sales initiatives as well as leading the America’s sales team.
Cobar brings over 30 years of industry experience to his role at Silicon Image. Prior to joining the company in April 2001 Cobar held several strategic sales and marketing positions during a 12-year tenure at Sun Microsystems. In those positions Cobar had management and executive responsibilities for engineering operations and the creation and execution of new markets for network-based thin client technology.
In June 1980 Cobar joined Xerox Corporation for nine years driving multiple engineering and operations initiatives including designing a half million square foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility with automated material replenishment system that provided JIT component delivery from suppliers to the assembly line.
Cobar earned a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from California State University San Jose and a master’s degree in marketing from Golden Gate University San Francisco. | 