Exar Corporation Appoints New Vice President and Managing Director of Asia Pacific

FREMONT, Calif., May. 12 /PRNewswire/ --

FREMONT, Calif., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Exar Corporation today announced that James Lougheed was appointed Exar's Vice President and Managing Director of Asia Pacific. This is a new position, and Mr. Lougheed will report to Bentley Long, vice president, Global Sales.

"James brings extensive high technology sales and marketing experience in Asia to his new position," said Bentley Long. "James has proven leadership skills and a track record of success in this multi-continent region where Exar expects to grow its market position. Exar has wide presence in Asia with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, as well as in Taipei, Taiwan and Seoul, Korea, plus strong relationships with distributor and representative partners which gives Exar a distinct advantage over our competitors in this dynamic territory."

Mr. Lougheed brings over 14 years of semiconductor sales and marketing experience (ten years in Asia) to Exar where he was most recently the Director of Marketing and Business Development for Cirrus Logic in Shanghai. He had previously worked at Apexone Microelectronics as Director of Marketing, and at Future Electronics as a Senior Technical Sales Director. Mr. Lougheed has a degree in Electronics Engineering and a post Graduate Diploma in Management from the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia. In addition, Mr. Lougheed is working on a Masters Degree in Business Administration at USQ, Australian Graduate School of Business.

About Exar

Exar Corporation is Powering Connectivity by delivering highly differentiated silicon solutions empowering products to connect. With distinctive knowledge in analog and digital technologies, Exar enables a wide array of applications such as portable devices, home media gateways, communications systems, and industrial automation equipment. Exar has locations worldwide providing real-time system-level support to drive rapid product innovation. For more information about Exar visit: http://www.exar.com.