Esam Elashmawi brings to the role 30 years of semiconductor and equipment technology and industry experience. Over the past decade, he has successfully managed and developed solutions and equipment for the data center, automotive, defense, communications, and industrial markets.
Prior to his recent appointment at Lattice, Esam served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Microsemi Corporation since 2010 responsible for their data center, timing solutions, and programmable logic product lines. Mr. Elashmawi previously served as Vice President of Product Development at Actel Corporation, which Microsemi acquired in 2010. Earlier in his career, he co-founded SiliconExpert Technologies, a component management software company, which was acquired by Arrow Electronics. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.