13 June 2013

Anadigics promotes Cresci to president and van Saders to chief operations officer

GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has announced executive management changes that aim to enhance execution of a coordinated growth strategy across the firm’s three business groups and further enable increased manufacturing scale across its process technologies, including inter-layer dielectric (ILD).

Dave Cresci, previously VP of the WiFi Products business unit, has been appointed president, and a corporate officer. The newly created role encompasses responsibility for all of Anadigics’ business groups, including design and product marketing, as well as its worldwide sales organization. The firm says that Cresci has a strong sales, marketing and engineering background, and has served in a variety of leadership positions at Anadigics since 2003.

“In 2012, we organized Anadigics into three business groups to drive product innovation and improve customer traction, positioning the company for growth into 2014,” says chairman & CEO Ron Michels. “As we scale our manufacturing capabilities to meet the growing demand for our new RF solutions, we believe that it is critical to coordinate our strategy across all businesses and customer touch points,” he adds. “Dave will assume this new leadership role to help align our businesses to the overall corporate strategy, ensure that we scale efficiently, and position Anadigics for continued profitable growth into the future.”

John van Saders has been appointed executive VP & chief operations officer. Anadigics describes Van Saders as a business and engineering leader with over 30 years of RF semiconductor experience.

“John will lead the company's efforts to align our process technologies and systems with the product roadmaps of our business groups, and continue to improve the way we introduce and manage innovation across our manufacturing operations and supply chain,” says Michels.

“These appointments, both well deserved, will allow me to focus on the company’s overall strategy, forging business alliances, and further strengthening our business development activities,” Michels concludes.

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