Contact Information: US Company Contact: Hiro Kataoka Boston Circuits, Inc. 781-933-4541 www.bostoncircuits.com hkataoka@bostoncircuits.com Asia Company Contact: Makoto Umemura Boston Circuits Asia +81-45-472-1261 www.bostoncircuits.jp mumemura@bostoncircuits.com
Boston Circuits Inc Announces Appointment of Bob Gilkes as Executive Chairman
New Position to Expand Senior Management Team With Focus on Global Strategic Partnerships
| Source: Boston Circuits Inc.
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - October 21, 2008) - Boston Circuits Inc., a fabless semiconductor
company focused on multi-core processors for networking and multimedia
applications, today announced the appointment of Bob Gilkes as Executive
Chairman. Based in Oxford, England, Mr. Gilkes will contribute to the
day-to-day management team with a particular focus on BCI's global
partnerships and strategic direction.
"Bob brings to Boston Circuits Inc. a deep and impressive record of rapidly
growing companies with innovative technology products," said Hiro Kataoka,
Founder and Chief Executive of BCI. "We are excited to welcome Bob to our
team, and look forward to leveraging his insight and expertise in driving
both near- and long-term corporate planning and strategic opportunities for
growth."
Prior to joining BCI, Bob Gilkes held CEO and Chairman level
responsibilities for more than twenty-five years. After ten years with IBM
and Unilever, he led Tadpole Technology in the UK and Xionics Document
Technologies in Massachusetts from turnaround to successful IPO's.
BCI's new Executive Chairman Bob Gilkes stated, "I believe that BCI has the
potential to capture a leading position in the evolving market for next
generation of embedded multi-core processors. BCI's breakthrough
architectural design has generated significant interest among manufacturers
in Japan and more widely in Asia. I look forward to joining this team of
Tier 1 professionals."
About Boston Circuits Inc.
Boston Circuits, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in
Woburn, Massachusetts with a subsidiary in Yokohama, Japan. Founded in
2005, the Company has developed ground breaking technology that solve two
of the largest problems facing users of multi-core processors; software
friendliness, and the efficiency and flexibility of delivering computing
power to applications. The Company's gCORE family of multi-core processors,
scheduled to be available in 2009 for multimedia and networking devices,
combines the ease of programming and software compatibility of a
single-core processor, with the enhanced performance and power efficiency
of
multi-core. Boston Circuits is privately held, and has received investment
from SBI Investment Co., Ltd of Japan.