Management

Dr. Jalal Bagherli
Chief Executive Officer
Jalal joined Dialog, as CEO, in September 2005. He was previously Vice President & General Manager of the Mobile Multimedia business unit for Broadcom Corporation and the CEO of Alphamosaic. He has extensive experience of the semiconductor industry, through his previous professional and executive positions at Texas Instruments and Sony, and a wealth of knowledge about the Far Eastern, European and North American markets. He is a non-executive director of Lime Microsystems Ltd.

Andrew Austin
Vice President, Sales
Andrew joined Dialog in April 2009. He was previously a Sales and Marketing consultant specializing 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.

Christophe Chene
Vice President, Asia
Christophe joined Dialog in 2011 as Vice President Asia. He has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry focused on building international businesses and organizations with strong Asian footprint. Previously based in Taiwan, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the TV Business Unit as well as Senior VP 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.

Mohamed Djadoudi
Vice President, Global Manufacturing Operations & Quality
Mohamed joined Dialog in March 2007 and is responsible for product engineering, test and assembly development as well as offshore manufacturing operations. Mohamed has 24 years’ experience of semiconductor manufacturing operations, starting with IBM in France and the US. He was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Unisem group. Prior to that he was Vice President of Test Operations at ASAT based in Hong Kong, before becoming a member of the management buy-out team of Atlantis Technology UK and its Technical Director. Mohamed holds an Electronic and Electrotechnic degree from the Paris University of Technology.

Gary Duncan
Vice President, Engineering
Gary, who joined the Company in 1987, is responsible for the design and development of our semiconductor products. Before joining Dialog, he held senior engineering and management roles at Plessey and ES2.

Udo Kratz
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Business Group Mobile Systems
Udo joined Dialog in May 2006. He is responsible for the Audio, Display and Power Management technologies which form the Business Group Mobile Systems, addressing the smartphone, tablet pc and portable consumer device markets. His 20+ years’ of experience in the semiconductor industry were gained in general management, senior marketing and engineering at Robert Bosch GmbH, Sony Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies. Udo holds an electronic engineering degree from the University for Applied Sciences, Mannheim.

Martin Powell
Vice President, Human Resources
Martin joined the Company in 2010 and is responsible for developing and driving people strategies in support of Dialog's business goals and initiatives worldwide, including fostering an environment where Dialog's teams can thrive. Prior to Dialog Martin has held a variety of senior and executive HR roles with Medtronic Inc, General Electric (GE), and the Dell corporation and most recently was a member of the executive team at C-MAC MicroTechnology, a private equity backed leader in the high reliability electronics sector. During his career Martin has been located in Asia, continental Europe as well as the United Kingdom.

Jean-Michel Richard
CFO, Vice President Finance
Jean-Michel joined the Company in 2006 to head up its finance department. He was previously Finance Director for the Global Manufacturing and Technology Division of ON Semiconductor, in Phoenix, Arizona, and before that held senior finance and treasury positions at ON and Motorola, in Europe and the US. Jean-Michel holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Asmund Tielens
Vice President & General Manager Connectivity and Automotive & Industrial Business Group
Asmund is Vice President & General Manager of Dialog’s “Connectivity and Automotive & Industrial Business Group”. He joined Dialog in February 2011 through the acquisition SiTel Semiconductor, where he was CEO and founder. Prior to SiTel, Asmund worked at National Semiconductor as product line director, at PMC Sierra as marketing director for ATM chips and at Philips Semiconductor (now NXP) as marketing manager for its digital TV circuits and later for all of its custom/asic products. Asmund Tielens obtained his masters degree in Physics (summa cum laude) at Hamburg University, and his PhD at the University of Utrecht.

Mark Tyndall
Vice President Business Development & Corporate Strategy
Mark Tyndall joined Dialog Semiconductors as Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Strategy in September 2008. Prior to Dialog, Mr. Tyndall was VP of Business Development and Corporate Relations at MIPS Technologies. From 1999 to 2006, he held the position of VP of Business Development at Infineon and has also served as a board director of several start-up companies, several which were successfully acquired.

Earlier in his career, Mr Tyndall held management positions in marketing at Fujitsu Microelectronics and in design at Philips Semiconductors.