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## Executive management 

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## Dr Jalal Bagherli 

## Chief Executive Officer 

Jalal joined Dialog as CEO and an executive board director in September 2005. He was previously Vice President & General Manager of the Mobile Multimedia business unit for Broadcom Corporation. Prior to that Jalal was the CEO of Alphamosaic, a venture-funded silicon start-up company in Cambridge, focusing on video processing chips for the mobile applications. He has extensive experience of the semiconductor industry, through his previous professional and executive positions at Sony Semiconductor and Texas Instruments, managing semiconductor product businesses and working with customers in the Far East, Europe and North America. 

Jalal is a non-executive director of Lime Microsystems Ltd since 2005 and the Chairman of Global Semiconductor Association Europe since 2011. He has a BSc (Hons) in Electronics Engineering from Essex University, and holds a PhD in Electronics from Kent University, UK. 

## Dr Karim Arabi 

## Vice President, Engineering Technology 

Karim joined Dialog Semiconductor in September 2012 and is responsible for driving overall technology leadership and advanced product development. He brings over 20 years of experience in various fields of semiconductor industry to Dialog. Prior to joining Dialog, Karim served as Vice President, Engineering at Qualcomm. Karim also held key technical leadership positions at PMC Sierra and Cirrus 

Logic and was co-founder of Opmaxx, acquired by Credence. Karim obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in Electronics from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. 

## Andrew Austin 

## Vice President, Sales 

Andrew joined Dialog in April 2009. He was previously a Sales and Marketing consultant specialising in the semiconductor and high- performance sports industries. He has extensive experience of the semiconductor industry through his previous professional positions at Texas Instruments and Raytheon Systems. Andrew holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics from Hertford University. 

## Mohamed Djadoudi 

## Vice President, Global Manufacturing Operations and Quality 

Mohamed joined Dialog in March 2007 and is responsible for product engineering, test and assembly development, data automation, software support, offshore manufacturing operations and quality. Mohamed has more than 25 years’ experience in the field of semiconductor manufacturing operations, starting initially with IBM in France and the US. He was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Unisem group, an assembly and test subcontractor based in Malaysia and China. He also held the position of Vice President of Test Operations at ASAT (Atlantis Technology), based in Hong Kong, before becoming one of the original members 

of the management buy-out team of ASAT UK, where he served as the Technical Director. Mohamed holds an Electronic and Electrotechnic degree from the Paris University of Technology. 

## Gary Duncan 

## Vice President, Product Development 

Gary, who joined the Company in October 1987, is responsible for all IC design and development activities. He has over 30 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry and previously he held senior engineering and management roles at Plessey, Texas Instruments and ES2 with a particular specialism in process engineering, test and product engineering and yield improvement. 

## Christophe Chene 

## Vice President, Asia 

Christophe joined Dialog in November 2011 as Vice President, Asia and is based in Taiwan. He has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, focusing on building international businesses with a strong Asian footprint. Previously he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the TV Business Unit as well as Senior Vice President of worldwide sales for Trident Microsystems. Prior to that, Christophe served in various international executive and managerial positions at Texas Instruments, Sharp and Xilinx. Christophe holds an Electronics Engineering degree from INSA, Toulouse. 

