Micrel announced the appointment of Mansour Izadinia as the Company's Senior Vice President of the Analog Division. Izadinia will have general management and overall responsibility for Micrel's largest division. He will report to Mr. Ray Zinn, President, CEO, founder and Chairman of the Board of the Company. Izadinia brings to Micrel more than 26 years of experience in analog and mixed signal product development and marketing. He most recently served as Chief Technology Officer of Integrated Device Technology (IDT) where he was responsible for IDT's new product development strategy and methodologies.

Prior to IDT, he served as Vice President at Maxim Integrated Products where he was the General Manager of one of Maxim's major analog and power management business units. Prior to Maxim, he held design engineering and management positions at National Semiconductor Corporation.