Evan Sanders Placed as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Centrality Communications

March 2005 - ChampionScott Partners has placed Evan Sanders as the Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Centrality Communications. Centrality Communications (www.centralitycomm.com) is a leading provider of semiconductor platforms for high-functional mobile devices including GPS Handhelds, PDA/Smartphones, and Automotive Navigations Systems. The company's innovation is based on decades of research and development experience from the industry's leading chip architects and entrepreneurs. Leveraging this innovation, Centrality provides the most highly integrated solutions at the lowest cost point. Funded by top tier Silicon Valley venture capital firms including Focus Venture, Menlo Ventures, Acer Venture and Walden International, Centrality is headquartered in Silicon Valley with significant resources in Asia.

Mr. Sanders was most recently the Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Memsic, a fabless semiconductor start-up based in Boston, MA focused on the consumer electronics space. Mr. Sanders grew worldwide sales from $500,000 to $18 million in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, U.S. and Europe.

Prior to Memsic, Mr. Sanders was the Vice President of Business Development, Sales and Marketing for Axcel Photonics, Inc., an early stage company in the optical components space. In his earlier career, Mr. Sanders worked with various companies including CyOptics, Inc., Lasertron, Sipex in various sales and marketing roles. Upon joining Centrality, Mr. Sanders will relocate to the company's China Headquarter in Shanghai.

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