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Bridgelux announces appointment to its board of directors
George de Urioste will serve as chairman of the Board’s audit committee and brings more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor and enterprise software industries to the position.
Bridgelux, a developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions has announced that George de Urioste has joined its Board of Directors.
De Urioste will serve as chairman of the Board’s audit committee and brings more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor and enterprise software industries to the position.
“George’s experience as CFO and COO in publicly held companies is well suited to Bridgelux’s needs as we embark on our next phase of growth,” said Bill Watkins, Bridgelux CEO. “His success in growing and managing world-class operations and teams will be instrumental to our success.”
In addition to his related industry experience, de Urioste is a Certified Public Accountant. Prior to joining the Bridgelux Board, he served in 2008 as interim Chief Financial Officer and then interim Chief Operating Officer of Marvell Technology, a $3 Billion semiconductor provider of high-performance analogue and digital signal processing products for data storage, mobile and video communications.
During his CFO tenure there, the market capitalisation grew from $6 billion to $10 billion. De Urioste has also held COO and CFO responsibilities at Chordiant Software and was Chief Financial Officer at Remedy Corporation; both companies were publicly held during his tenure. More recently, de Urioste was a member of the Board of Directors and served for three years as the audit committee chairman at Saba Software.
