Telegent Appoints Vahid Manian as Senior Vice President of Business Operations

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, today announced that Vahid Manian has joined the company as senior vice president of business operations.

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Vahid brings an exceptional track record in operations expertise to Telegent.  Prior to Telegent, Vahid served as senior vice president of global manufacturing operations at Broadcom Corporation, where he was responsible for all manufacturing activities including foundry operations and process technology direction.   Vahid joined Broadcom in January 1996 as the company's founding operations executive and played an instrumental role in enabling its growth from startup to greater than $4.8 billion in revenue and shipping more than 1.2 billion devices per year by the time he left in 2008.   During Vahid's tenure, Broadcom had industry-leading delivery performance, outstanding quality and best-in-class inventory management.  He has developed and perfected the fabless semiconductor model and served as vice chairman of the Global Semiconductor Alliance.  Prior to joining Broadcom, Vahid spent twelve years at Silicon Systems, Inc., a mixed-signal semiconductor manufacturer, the last six years serving as director of operations.

"Vahid's experience in driving excellence in ongoing cost reduction, quality and on time delivery will greatly benefit our customers.  Telegent will also benefit from his skills in achieving world-class metrics in inventory turns and business operations," said Ford Tamer, chief executive officer of Telegent.  "His expertise will be invaluable as the industry embraces mobile TV as a standard feature on handsets for the emerging market consumer."

Telegent board member Lip-Bu Tan, chairman of Walden International said, "Vahid is one of the top operations executives in the semiconductor industry, capable of scaling world-class organizations that deliver on customer requirements and quality while executing strategies that enable aggressive growth."

About Telegent Systems, Inc.

Telegent Systems is a fabless semiconductor company that enables the reception of live, free-to-air analog and digital broadcast television in mobile handsets and other portable consumer devices.  Telegent's television-on-a-chip solutions solve the long-standing technical challenges that have precluded mobile reception of analog broadcast TV, enabling manufacturers and operators to benefit from the convergence of broadcast TV with mobile and portable devices.  Telegent's products are the most widely sold broadcast television solutions for mobile handsets in the world.  For more information, visit www.telegent.com.

SOURCE Telegent Systems, Inc.

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