our members of the PSMA Board of Directors are elected at the Annual Meeting held every year during the APEC conference. Each Director serves a three year term and is eligible to be reelected for one additional term.

We would like you to meet two Directors who were elected to their second terms at the PSMA Annual Meeting during APEC 2013.

John J. McManus. After obtaining a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree in 1962, John McManus worked as an engineer in the power utility industry for five years. He earned an MBA in 1968, and entered the investment business, focusing on institutional research and investment banking. He worked for the ensuing 40 years concentrating on the electronics and power supply industries. His career includes experience as a Vice President and institutional research analyst at several major firms and 18 years as a Managing Director in institutional research and investment banking at Needham & Company.

John joined Lincoln International in 2007 as a Senior Director and co-head of the global Electronics and Solar Energy Group, where he created and published a quarterly Power Electronics Deal Reader and Stock Index and a Solar Energy Deal Reader and Stock Index. He retired from Lincoln International in June 2010.

For the last four years, John has been a Director of the PSMA and is currently co-chair of the Alternative Energy Committee. John currently provides consulting services to power electronics and alternative energy companies.
 

Provided by John McManus, Consultant
 

Prior to joining Fairchild in 2005, Aung spent 11 combined years with Unitrode and Texas Instruments and 8 combined years with Sprague Electric and Allegro Microsystems. He started his career as an IC designer for Hall Effect sensors in 1987 for Sprague and has enjoyed various challenges in development, project management and strategic business management roles within the past 25 years. Aung has a BSCE and a MSEE from Boston University.

Aung has been on the PSMA board of directors since 2009 and is an active champion of the organization. Starting with the 2002 PSMA Silicon Integration Project, he has been involved in various PSMA activities. He co-chairs the PSMA Semiconductor Committee. He worked on the architecture of the Energy Efficiency Database that was implemented by the PSMA Energy Efficiency Committee. His biggest contribution to PSMA is in the biennial PSMA Power Technology Roadmap (PTR) efforts as the lead-chair or co-chair PTR2009, PTR2011 and the recently completed PTR 2013 reports. Currently he is also the PSMA representative to Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) where he is the program chair for APEC2014 (Ft. Worth, TX) and will be the general chair for APEC2015 (Charlotte, NC).
 

Provided by Aung Thet Tu, Product Line Director, Fairchild Semiconductor

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