CHANDLER, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Everspin Technologies, Inc., the world's leading developer and manufacturer of discrete and embedded MRAM, today announced the appointment of Jeff Winzeler as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Winzeler joins Everspin from Avnera, a privately held semiconductor company specializing in analog and digital SoCs, where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Avnera he served as CFO at public companies including Rackwise Inc., Solar Power, Inc., and International Display Works. Winzeler also spent 17 years with Intel Corporation, most recently as Controller of Intel’s Flash memory division, and previously managed financial operations for many of the company’s wafer fabrication and assembly-test operations in Arizona, New Mexico, Israel, Malaysia, and Folsom.
“I am very excited about joining Everspin,” said Winzeler. "The company has established a leadership position in the MRAM market with great technology and a talented team. I look forward to providing financial leadership and contributing to Everspin’s continued growth and success.”
“As Everspin continues to experience rapid growth through market adoption of our MRAM and ST-MRAM technology, the time is right to appoint an experienced and highly strategic financial leader to our team,” said Phill LoPresti, President and CEO of Everspin. “Jeff’s knowledge, capabilities, and strong network will enable corporate efficiencies and intelligent revenue scale as we accelerate and deliver perpendicular and Gigabit ST-MRAM to the market.”
About Everspin Technologies
Everspin Technologies is the worldwide leader in designing, manufacturing, and commercially shipping discrete and embedded Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) and Spin-Torque MRAM (ST-MRAM) into markets and applications where data persistence and integrity, low latency, and security are paramount. With over 40 Million MRAM and ST-MRAM products deployed in data center, cloud storage, energy, industrial, automotive, and transportation markets, Everspin has built the strongest and fastest growing foundation of MRAM users in the world. With an intellectual property portfolio of more than 500 active patents and applications, Everspin leads the market in development of both in-plane and perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) ST-MRAM bit cells. Everspin has established high-quality manufacturing worldwide, along with enabling a full turn-key 300mm high-volume foundry partner for advanced technology nodes including 40nm, 28nm and beyond. In addition to launching discrete memory solutions with new densities and advanced interfaces, including the world’s first commercialization and volume shipments of ST-MRAM, Everspin is delivering on the company’s strategy to proliferate MRAM and ST-MRAM as mainstream embedded memories for use in MCUs, GPUs, DSPs, Application Processors, and ASICs, earning Everspin its description as “The MRAM Company”. www.everspin.com
