Alvand Technologies announced that it has appointed John Patterson as Director of Sales & Marketing

January 17, 2011 -- Alvand Technologies announced that it has appointed John Patterson as Director of Sales & Marketing on January 10, 2011. Mr. Patterson is one of the most accomplished and well-respected sales and customer relationship builders in the Data Convector. "John Patterson has 20 years sales and engineering experience in the ASIC and IP industry. He has held director of sales positions at industry leading direct write on wafer ASIC company, ES2, first configurable processor company, ARCCores, and world leading analog IP company, Chipidea. For all three companies, he made significant contributions to sales and, as a result, the value of each company. For Chipidea, John was the first employee in North America and responsible for growing North American sales resulting in 40% of the company's revenue and a very successful $147M acquisition" emphasized Alvand president and CEO Mansour Keramat.

About Alvand Technologies

Alvand Technologies is a leading analog IC design company that specializes in high-speed, low-power, and ultra small die area data converters (ADC/DAC) and Analog Front End (AFE) for a broad range of applications, such as wireless (Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE) systems, ultrasound and mobile TV. Alvand also provides full turnkey mixed-signal ASICs based on its high performance and low power IPs. Alvand's seasoned team of analog and mixed-signal IC designers has extensive experience in high-performance analog and mixed-signal IC design with particular emphasis on ultra low power applications. For more information visit us at www.alvandtech.com.