Erik Cleage
Consultant / Advisor at Silicon Catalyst, LLC
Profile
Erik Cleage is a veteran semiconductor executive with broad expertise in scaling businesses, marketing technology products and developing sales channels.
His 30-plus year career includes periods at Altera, Advanced Micro Devices, and Fairchild Semiconductor.
During his 19-year tenure at Altera, he held various management positions, including International Marketing Manager and Senior Vice President of Marketing, helping to grow the company from a pre-IPO startup to a leading multi-national, Fortune 500 company.
Cleage directed all aspects of product planning, applications engineering, distribution channel management, training, promotion and merchandising, market segmentation, product positioning, customer management, demand forecasting, competitive analysis, and pricing.
While at Altera, Cleage led the development of many of the product and market strategies that have defined today’s multi-billion-dollar FPGA/PLD business.
Prior to that, he held product marketing positions at Fairchild and AMD focused on memory devices.
Cleage has served as a board member and advisor at several venture-funded technology companies.
He has had extensive involvement with Wall Street analysts and played key roles in several acquisitions and strategic investments.
Cleage holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and attended the Financial Accounting for Non-Financial Executives (FANFE) program as well as the Corporate Governance Program (CGP) at the Stanford Business School.
Erik Cleage active positions
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Silicon Catalyst, LLC
Silicon Catalyst, LLC Investment ManagersFinance Silicon Catalyst LLC (Silicon Catalyst) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Michael Edward Noonen, Daniel Armbrust. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | Consultant / Advisor | 2020-10-31 |
Former positions of Erik Cleage
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Velogix, Inc.
Velogix, Inc. Electronics DistributorsDistribution Services Velogix, Inc. develops programmable fabrics and designs software solutions. The company also manufactures programmable integrated circuits, high-capacity FPGA devices, and software platforms. It was founded by Ashok Vittal and Hare Verma in October 2002 and is located in Santa Clara, CA. | Chairman | 2009-11-01 |
Chip Estimate Corp.
Chip Estimate Corp. Electronic Production EquipmentElectronic Technology Chip Estimate Corp. provides electronic design automation services. Its software lets designers plug in a number of specifications such as chip size, power and speed then produces a Silicon Virtual Model. The company was founded by J. George Janac in 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Consultant / Advisor | 2008-02-29 |
ALTERA CORPORATION | Sales & Marketing | 2004-12-31 |
AMD (ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES) | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR INTL INC | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Training of Erik Cleage
Stanford University | Undergraduate Degree |
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Listed companies | 1 |
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AMD (ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES) | Electronic Technology |
Private companies | 6 |
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Altera Corp.
Altera Corp. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Altera Corp. operated as a global semiconductor company. The company was founded by Robert F. Hartmann, Michael Magranet, Paul Newhagen and James D. Sansbury in 1983 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Fairchild Semiconductor International LLC
Fairchild Semiconductor International LLC SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. designs, develops and markets analog discrete, logic, and non-volatile memory semiconductors. The company was founded by Gordon E. Moore, C. Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert N. Noyce, Victor H. Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean A. Hoerni and Jay T. Last on October 1, 1957 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Cswitch Corp.
Cswitch Corp. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology Cswitch Corp. developed and manufactured configurable switch array devices. The company was founded in 2003 and was headquartered in Cupertino, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Velogix, Inc.
Velogix, Inc. Electronics DistributorsDistribution Services Velogix, Inc. develops programmable fabrics and designs software solutions. The company also manufactures programmable integrated circuits, high-capacity FPGA devices, and software platforms. It was founded by Ashok Vittal and Hare Verma in October 2002 and is located in Santa Clara, CA. | Distribution Services |
Chip Estimate Corp.
Chip Estimate Corp. Electronic Production EquipmentElectronic Technology Chip Estimate Corp. provides electronic design automation services. Its software lets designers plug in a number of specifications such as chip size, power and speed then produces a Silicon Virtual Model. The company was founded by J. George Janac in 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Silicon Catalyst, LLC
Silicon Catalyst, LLC Investment ManagersFinance Silicon Catalyst LLC (Silicon Catalyst) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Michael Edward Noonen, Daniel Armbrust. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | Finance |
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