Crocus Technology Advantage

Zack brings to Crocus over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. His experience includes sales and business development, product and strategic marketing, IP and licensing, building and developing international organizations. Zack held several senior positions with worldwide responsibilities at SanDisk, AMD/Spansion, ST Microelectronics and Motorola. Most recently Zack served as a Senior Vice President of Global Accounts and Enterprise Storage at Samsung Semiconductor. He holds an M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Southern Illinois University.

Florence Cheung brings to Crocus over 20 years of international corporate accounting and financial management experience. Prior to joining Crocus, Florence was the Chief Financial Officer at Cortina Access, a spin-off from Cortina Systems. As the Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller at Cortina Systems, she managed a complex international corporate structure with twelve legal entities. She led the financial diligence and integration on a number of acquisition transactions and successfully completed the sale of Cortina Systems to Inphi Corporation and Cortina Access to Realtek Inc. She had held senior management positions at several private companies following her public accounting career.

Florence is a licensed CPA in California and a member of Financial Executives International (FEI). She earned her BBA degree in management information systems from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her MBA and MS in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Over the last 30 years, Luc-Olivier has served in various US and european high technology companies, covering all aspects from engineering to manufacturing, finance, marketing/sales, and general management as a founder, member of the board or president. Among those were Hana Microdisplay Technology, SVISION, nCHIP, Integrated Device Technology, and Eurosil/Intersil. Since returning in Europe in December 2001, he became board member and mentor to a number of local high technology start-ups with focus in microelectronics, display, and lately micro- and nano-technologies with and without biotechnology aspects, working on the development of infrastructures necessary for their successful developments. Luc-Olivier obtained his Master in Science in Physics from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland) and his Ph.D. in Engineering from Caltech in Pasadena (USA).