Ramtron announced the appointment of Pete Zimmer as vice president of sales. Zimmer will report to Eric Balzer, Ramtron’s chief executive officer. As vice president of sales, he will oversee Ramtron’s worldwide sales organization for all Ramtron product lines including high-performance F-RAM memory, wireless memory, and integrated products.
Zimmer brings 29 years of semiconductor sales management, engineering, marketing and quality assurance experience to his position at Ramtron. Most recently, he was director of Worldwide Microcontroller Marketing & Vertical Markets at Texas Instruments.
Prior to his position at TI, he was executive vice president of Worldwide Sales & Applications at Luminary Micro until Texas Instruments acquired Luminary Micro in 2009. Prior to Luminary Micro, he was vice president of Americas Sales at Microchip. Between 1981 and 1997, he held various positions in the high-technology industry.
Ramtron, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a fabless semiconductor company that develops specialized semiconductor memory, microcontroller and integrated semiconductor solutions.
