Bing Yeh
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Bing Yeh, one of our co-founders, has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and has been a member of our board of directors since our inception in 1989. Prior to that, Mr. Yeh served as a senior research and development manager of Xicor, Inc., a nonvolatile memory semiconductor company. From 1981 to 1984, Mr. Yeh held program manager and other positions at Honeywell Inc. From 1979 to 1981, Mr. Yeh was a senior development engineer of EEPROM technology of Intel Corporation. He was a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Physics and earned an Engineer degree at Stanford University. Mr. Yeh holds a M.S. and a B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University.

Yaw Wen Hu
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Yaw Wen Hu, Ph.D., joined us in July 1993 as Vice President, Technology Development. In August 1999, he became Vice President, Operations and Process Development.  In January 2000, he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Operations and Process Development.  In April 2004, he was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.  Dr. Hu has been a member of our board of directors since September 1995.  From 1990 to 1993, Dr. Hu served as deputy general manager of technology development of Vitelic Taiwan Corporation.  From 1988 to 1990, he served as FAB engineering manager of Integrated Device Technology, Inc. From 1985 to 1988, he was the director of technology development at Vitelic Corporation.  From 1978 to 1985, he worked as a senior development engineer in Intel Corporation's Technology Development Group.  Dr. Hu holds a B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University and a M.S. in Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.

Derek Best
Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Derek Best joined us in June 1997 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.  In June 2000 he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing.  Prior to joining SST he worked for Micromodule Systems, a manufacturer of high-density interconnect technology, as vice president marketing and sales world wide from 1992 to 1996.  From 1987 to 1992 he was a co-founder and owner of Mosaic Semiconductor, a SRAM and module semiconductor company.  Mr. Best holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Portsmouth University in England.

Michael Briner
Senior Vice President, NAND and Smartcard Modules Business Unit

Michael Briner joined us as Vice President, Design Engineering in November 1997, and became Vice President, Products during 1999.  He was promoted to Senior Vice President of Application Specific Product Group in February 2001.  From 1993 to 1997, he served as vice president of design engineering for Micron Quantum Devices, Inc., a subsidiary of Micron Technology, Inc., chartered to develop and manufacture flash memory products.  From 1986 through 1992, he served as director of design engineering for the Nonvolatile Division of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.  In this position, he was instrumental in helping AMD become a major nonvolatile memory manufacturer.  Mr. Briner holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

Chen Tsai
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Backend Operations

Chen Tsai joined us in August 1996 as Senior Manager, Yield Enhancement and became Director, Product and Test Engineering the same year.  In 1999, he became Director of Worldwide Backend Operations and in 2000 he was promoted to Vice President of Worldwide Backend Operations.  In October 2004, Mr. Tsai was appointed Senior Vice President of Worldwide Backend Operations.  From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Tsai was Manager of Process Development at Atmel Corporation, a manufacturer of semiconductors, where he was also a staff engineer of E2PROM from 1989 to 1992.  From 1988 to 1989, he was vice president of technology at Tristar Technology, Inc., a wireless systems company.  From 1980 to 1988 he held various positions at Xicor, Inc. and Teledyne Semiconductor.  Mr. Tsai holds a B.S. in Physics from Show Chu University and a M.S. in both Physics and Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology.

Paul Lui
Senior Vice President, Memory and Special Products Business Unit

Paul Lui joined us as Vice President and General Manager of the Linvex Product Line in June 1999 and became Vice President, Special Product Group in June 2001.  In May 2006, he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Standard and Special Product Group.  From 1994 to 1999, he was the president and founder of Linvex Technology Corporation. From 1987 to 1994, he was the president and chief executive officer of Macronix, Inc. From 1981 to 1985, he served as group general manager at VLSI Technology, Inc. where he was responsible for transferring that company's technology to Korea. In addition, Mr. Lui has held senior engineering positions at the Synertek Division of Honeywell and McDonnell Douglas. Mr. Lui holds an M.S.E.E. degree from University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

James Boyd
Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Finance

James Boyd joined us as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Finance in June 2007. Before joining SST, Mr. Boyd spent seven years as chief financial officer for ESS Technology, a manufacturer of DVD and image sensor chips, where he was responsible for all financial and legal functions. Prior to that, he was chief financial officer for Gatefield Corp., a manufacturer of non-volatile reprogrammable FPGAs. Mr. Boyd has also held finance positions at companies ranging in size from Fortune 100 firms to start-ups. Mr. Boyd holds a bachelor of science degree and master’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin and a law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law.