Embedded Wireless Devices Inc (EWD TM) Names John R. Troutman As Vice President of Sales/PC Wireless LAN Group
"John Troutman's nearly 30 years of experience and relationships developed in the PC industry selling to such top tier manufacturers as Compaq, Dell, Gateway, HP, IBM, and Intel make him the ideal person to direct all sales operations in these market segments for EWD," said Sean T. Marzola, President & CEO of embedded wireless devices. "John will initially focus on increasing EWD's sales with key wireless LAN and PC manufacturers in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America."
Troutman brings an impressive background of strategic sales, operations, and technology experience to EWD. He joins EWD from Creative Labs, the worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for the personal computer and the Internet, where he was Vice President and General Manager of their Worldwide OEM Division. In that position, Troutman was directly responsible for Sales and Marketing, Manufacturing Operations and Product Development. He also held P&L responsibility.
Prior to Creative Labs, Troutman was Co-founder and Vice President of Product Engineering, Inc. at Cardinal Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of PC peripherals.
In addition to the start-up activities associated with growing a young company, Troutman also lead their product development and engineering.
John Troutman previously held Engineering Management and Associate Member Technical Staff positions at RCA Corporation's Display Systems Division where he lead the development of products and technologies for high resolution color monitors for the PC market. Troutman received his technical degree from Ryder Technical Institute with additional studies at Lehigh University.
About EWD's Valhalla Family
EWD has developed the Valhalla Family of multi-point multi-protocol Product-on-Chip™ (PoCTM) silicon solutions for wireless LANs, broadband wireless networking (access points, gateways and NICs), information appliances (IAs) and wireless telephony. They are the first fully integrated wireless digital devices to support simultaneous voice and data communications and enable seamless wireless connectivity utilizing industry standard protocols such as DECT, BluetoothTM, IEEE 802.11a/b, Home RF, and HiperLAN II. The EWD solutions propel wireless system designs to new levels of integration, allowing smaller form factors, lower product costs, and faster time-to-market for OEMs.
About Embedded Wireless Devices Inc.
Founded in 1995, embedded wireless devices, inc. is a fabless semiconductor and technology company that develops and markets solutions for multi-point broadband wireless networking. By combining a highly optimized MPU/DSP host processor and eMOSTM Operating System with multiple programmable basebands, analog front end, and system memory, EWD solves the dilemma of simultaneous voice and data communications in enterprise and residential broadband wireless networking environments.
For wireless applications such as Wireless LANs, access points, gateways, telephony, PDAs, VoIP devices, cordless headsets, digital/web cameras, MP3 players/recorders and Internet appliances, EWD's total product solutions shorten product development cycles and significantly reduce the product's complexity and overall cost. Core competencies include wireless applications and protocols, multiple programmable basebands, multi-tasking architectures, digital signal processing and analog and RF design. More information is available at http://www.ewdi.com
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