Bentley Long was appointed Exar's Vice President, Worldwide Sales. He replaces Gene Schaeffer, who resigned for personal reasons. Long has over 20 years of semiconductor sales and marketing experience including the last 11 at Exar where he was most recently Vice President of the Americas and Global Distribution. He has previously worked at VLSI Technology as an Area Sales Manager and Worldwide Strategic Account Manager, as well as held various technical positions at Texas Instruments.
In addition to that appointment, Rich Kapusta was named Vice President, Communications Product Line, and Joe Vyvijal was appointed Vice President, Power Product Line. Kapusta has over 15 years of semiconductor experience and joined Exar through its acquisition of Sipex in 2007 where he was the Vice President, Interface Products. Before his new appointment, he was most recently Exar's Vice President of Business Development. Before joining Sipex, he worked for Cypress.
Mr. Vyvijal has over 16 years of semiconductor industry experience and also joined Exar through its acquisition of Sipex. He was the Product Line Director, Product Business Development at Sipex, and held this role at Exar until his recent appointment. Prior to that, he spent 15 years at National Semiconductor.