Darwin C. Email & Phone Number

Cypress, California, United States

ID TECH, a leading manufacturer of secure payment solutions, mobile payment, and point of sale peripherals.- Instituted reorganization of Sales, Product, Engineering, HR, and Support Departments- Recruited senior leaders for key functional areas at both US HQ and Taiwan, including the current COO- Reorganized the product launch mechanism and resource.

Taiwan

• Kingston Solutions Inc.(KSI) is a subsidiary of Kingston, HQ'd in Taiwan. KSI focuses on creating embedded storage & memory solution using NAND & DRAM to meet the needs of thin & light ultraportable, and edge computing.
• ️ Garnered critical funding investments to secure support from key major semiconductor industry leaders in the US, Japan, and Taiwan
• ️ Led revenue growth to peak of $650M in 2018 by spearheading joint-venture and turning business around.
• ️ Spearheaded on and offshore teams across U.S., Taiwan, China, and UK

United States

• Head of Kingston's NAND Flash business group comprising of Commodity, SSD, and Embedded Business Units.My primary focus was collaborating with the Co-Founder/COO to outline the development and Go-To-Market strategies.
• ️ Facilitated strategic investments from $1M to $1B, directly influencing operational fitness and company growth.
• ️ Founded Commodity NAND Flash Products and SSD Storage business units that would grow to over $2B in value.
• ️ Oversaw numerous vital departments located in both US and Asia, including Procurement, Planning, Product Management, Field Application Engineering, Product Marketing, and Business Management.

• As VP of Corporate Marketing, I oversaw spanned global marketing budgets with an emphasis on turning around the business from a position of sales support to one of significant business influence. ⚡ Selected.
• ️ Incubated digital marketing capabilities to become driving force behind HyperX’s global branding success; carved out and replicated marketing infrastructure for both Kingston Technology and HyperX to capture results.
• ️ Span of control included numerous direct report functions, including Creative, Social Media, Influencer, Search, Public Relations (PR), and Product Marketing.

• I enabled business scaling, nurtured supplier partnerships, and broke through new product categories to facilitate business transformation. ⚡ Selected Accomplishments & Contributions ⚡
• ️ Enabled business to scale, crossing $1B for first time in 2007.
• ️ Fostered new partnerships with suppliers and evolved legacy relationships to include new product categories; new supply web network entities included M-Systems (Israel), Infineon (Germany), Renesas (Japan), Phison.

• In this leadership role, I optimized product development, and business management processes while orchestrating marketing and sales functions. Organized functions and set up successor to ensure the entity is.
• ️ Started the HyperX brand in 2002 as a gaming memory module product line aimed at enthusiast PC gamers. Shephard it’s expansion into peripheral gaming products for PCs in 2015, took over as GM in 2017.
• ️ Doubled revenue to over $300M+ by formulating strategy to launch new PC-to-Console and Mobile Gaming products.
• ️ Empowered smooth transition to HP, successfully finalizing $425M acquisition.

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