Andrew Cahoon Placed as Director of Engineering at POWERPRECISE

July 2006 - ChampionScott Partners has placed Andrew Cahoon as the Director of Engineering for POWERPRECISE (http://www.powerprecise.com). POWERPRECISE is a fabless semiconductor and battery management solutions company based in the technology corridor of Northern Virginia. POWERPRECISE develops and markets battery management ICs and integrated solutions for military and commercial applications. Based on its unique patented Virtual Analog™ technology, POWERPRECISE chips outperform other solutions through the use of its breakthrough signal processing techniques. The company developed the industry's highest accuracy gas gauging (battery capacity circuit) for both primary and rechargeable packs. POWERPRECISE is funded by OnPoint Technologies (US Army Venture Fund), PTI Ventures, and VentureTech Alliance (Venture capital arm of TSMC).

Mr. Cahoon was most recently the Director of Engineering at Augmentix responsible for hardware platform development of compute servers for the military, industrial and telecommunications industries. Prior to Augmentix, Mr. Cahoon was the Engineering Manager at Freescale Semiconductor. Prior to Freescale, Mr. Cahoon was the Director of Engineering at Cirrus Logic. Earlier in his career, Mr. Cahoon worked with Intel, Control Data, GE, NEC in various engineering capacities.

Mr. Cahoon holds a BS in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois and an Executive MBA from University of Oregon.

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