SAN JOSE, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. today announced the appointment of John M. Cobb to the position of Chief Financial Officer and Vice-President of Finance and Administration effective May 12, 2008. He is to report directly to President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Scott Howarth. In Mr. Cobb's most recent experience, he held the position of Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance and Administration of Power Integrations, a San Jose, California based fabless analog semiconductor company, for five years. He also served as CFO of PalmChip Corporation, a privately held venture funded company, and also held various financial positions at Quantum Corporation including CFO of their Hard Disk Drive Group during his 10 year career there. He also held senior audit and senior manager positions at Ernst & Young and Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Cobb is a cum laude graduate with a B.S. degree in accounting from Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
"I am very happy to find someone with John's extensive finance and accounting background to take over the position of CFO at ISSI," said Mr. Howarth, "With John's prior CFO experience at Power Integrations and Quantum, he brings a balance of leadership, financial and operational knowledge, and investor relations skills to ISSI. I look forward to working with him in his new role."
About the Company
ISSI is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets high performance integrated circuits for the following key markets: (i) digital consumer electronics, (ii) networking, (iii) mobile communications and (iv) automotive electronics. The Company's primary products are high speed and low power SRAM and low and medium density DRAM. The Company also designs and markets EEPROM, SmartCards and is developing selected non-memory products focused on its key markets. ISSI is headquartered in Silicon Valley with worldwide offices in China, Europe, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan. Visit our web site at http://www.issi.com.