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 alignments to facilitate successful launches of new products after 3+ years of delay.- Injected vibrancy and energy to the workforce as an agent of change, increased engagement and creatied positive momentum within 3 months.

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 devices. As GM and Chairman, I oversaw all operational aspects of the company and its P&L.⚡ Selected Accomplishments & Contributions ⚡▪️ 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 of semiconductor memory solultions and storage prodducts for one of America's largest private companies.⚡ Selected Accomplishments & Contributions ⚡▪️ 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 Accomplishments & Contributions ⚡▪️ 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 (Taiwan), Intel (USA).

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 exit-ready.⚡ Selected Accomplishments & Contributions ⚡▪️ 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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