Kionix Names Paul Bryan Executive Vice President, Product Management and Strategy

Kionix, Inc., one of the world’s top-three suppliers of MEMS accelerometers, today announced that Paul Bryan has joined the company as Executive Vice President, Product Management and Strategy, reporting to President and CEO Greg Galvin.

“We continue to strengthen our executive management team to help accelerate our growth,” said Kionix CEO Greg Galvin. “Paul’s experience and expertise will help us address strategic issues and will play a key role in our drive for operational excellence.”

Prior to joining Kionix, Mr. Bryan was an executive at Microsoft, most recently leading the team responsible for Windows Phone marketing to business customers. Previously, he led Product Management for the Microsoft Forefront Security product line, and held senior roles in business strategy for the Office team and Worldwide Licensing and Pricing. Prior to Microsoft, Paul was a management consultant with Andersen Strategic Services. Paul holds an MBA from the Wharton Business School and a BS in Engineering from RIT, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Kionix also announced the promotion of Drake Margiotta to the position of Vice President, Sales North America, reporting to Kenny Salky, EVP Sales and Marketing. Drake joined Kionix in 2011, bringing over twenty years of experience selling cutting-edge technology products and sales management to the company. Today he leads the company’s North American sales efforts, and manages Kionix’s Silicon Valley office.

“We are very pleased to acknowledge Drake’s experience and leadership qualities through this promotion. He has done an outstanding job as we have greatly expanded our presence in Silicon Valley, and we look forward to his continued contributions to the company’s success,” said Salky.

Prior to Kionix, Drake was a senior sales executive at InvenSense. Before InvenSense, Drake worked at Marvell Semiconductor, where he was responsible for business development, strategic sales, and marketing initiatives for their Tier 1 OEM customers. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

About Kionix

Kionix, Inc., located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of ROHM Co., Ltd. of Japan. Consumer electronics leaders worldwide utilize Kionix's products, development tools and application support to enable motion-based gaming, user-interface functionality in mobile handsets, personal navigation and TV remote controllers, and hard-disk-drive drop protection in mobile products. Kionix’s MEMS products are further diversified into the automotive, industrial and healthcare sectors. Kionix offers one of the industry’s broadest families of MEMS devices that incorporates 3-axis accelerometers and gyroscopes along with the mixed-signal-interface integrated circuits. Kionix is ISO9001:2008 and TS16949 certified. For more information on Kionix, visit: http://www.kionix.com.

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