George Jones
• United States: San Francisco Bay Area
• semiconductors
Current: VP, Sales, Raza Microelectronics
Past:
CEO, Phase II Technical Sales
Sales and marketing, VLSI Technology
George Jones
Address: San Francisco Bay Area
Current:
- VP, Sales at Raza Microelectronics
Past:
- CEO at Phase II Technical Sales
- Sales and marketing at VLSI Technology
- Sales and marketing a
Education:
- University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
- Georgia Institute of Technology
People Network: 378
Industry: Semiconductors
Websites:
George Jones’s Summary
George Jones serves at Vice President, Sales at Raza Microelectronics, Inc. (RMI). At RMI, he has built a high performance sales team from the ground up to win significant engagements with Tier 1 networking, security, and telecommunications systems companies worldwide, plus a variety of consumer and media customers. The starting point was pre-silicon evangelism, with results to date that include well-established production engagements and a significant market share in complex multicore and media embedded processors.
He co-founded Sand Hill Angels, a leading angel investment group in Silicon Valley. He was also a co-founder and served as chief executive officer of Phase II Technical Sales, a leader among technical sales representatives. Phase II drove complex component and subsystem engagements with communication, computer, storage, and peripheral systems producers. Phase II worked closely with Altera, Fairchild Semiconductor, GlobespanVirata (now Conexant), Intel, LSI Logic, National Semiconductor, QLogic, and Transwitch over the course of fifteen years.
Prior to founding Phase II in 1988, George spent seven years in key sales and marketing roles at VLSI Technology (later acquired by Philips), including Director of ASIC Marketing in the mid-1980's. At that time, ASICs were being defined in the industry and VLSI Technology developed a commanding market share in complex cell-based solutions with revenue exceeding $300M. George joined the company prior to its IPO. He was a sales and marketing engineer at Mostek (later acquired by ST Microelectronics) for three years previous to VLSI.
George earned an MBA at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor of electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.
George Jones’s Specialties:
Sales and marketing of complex semiconductors at a worldwide level in high growth companies and as a channel partner. Significant angel investment experience.
VP, Sales
Raza Microelectronics
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)
July 2004 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Responsibility for worldwide sales, including direct and channels.
Eductional Details:
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
MBA, Marketing, Decision Sciences, 1977 — 1979
George Jones’s Contact Settings
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- consulting offers
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Sand Hill Angels