Biography
Douglas Mitchell
Douglas Mitchell was appointed to our Board of Directors in February 2024. Mr. Mitchell was Vice President of RAM products at Infineon Technologies LLC from 2020 to 2023 and served as a Member of the Professional Staff from 2016 to 2020. Prior to Infineon, Mr. Mitchell worked with Microelectronics Research Development Corporation and the US Air Force Research Labs developing memory products for space applications from 2011 to 2016. From 2009 to 2010, he was Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Everspin where he led business development for Everspin’s MRAM products shortly after its spin-off from Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Earlier, he was President & Chief Executive Officer of Simtek Corporation, a publicly traded provider of non-volatile RAM ICs. He was responsible for establishing a cooperative development contract with Cypress Semiconductor Corporation that led to Cypress Semiconductor’s acquisition of Simtek. During his career, Mr. Mitchell has held various executive and management positions focusing on corporate leadership, technology, marketing and business development of micro-controllers, digital signal processors and memories. Since 1997, his principal focus has been on market requirements providing rapid growth opportunities for high performance nonvolatile memory ICs. Mr. Mitchell’s deep understanding of competitive memory products and technologies along with his long experience in application use-cases and Go-to-Market strategies give him unique capabilities in the semiconductor industry. Mr. Mitchell holds an MBA from National University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.