Microchip Technology Incorporated announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Rich Simoncic as Chief Operating Officer effective April 2, 2024. In this position, Mr. Simoncic will report to Ganesh Moorthy, who will remain President and CEO. Rich Simoncic joined Microchip as a new college graduate in 1989 and has had progressively increasing product development, operational and business unit responsibilities.

He founded the analog business at Microchip in 1998 and has been instrumental in building it to a more than $2 billion annual revenue business through a combination of organic efforts as well as acquisitions. He was promoted to Vice President in 1995, Corporate Vice President in 2001, Senior Vice President in 2019 and Executive Vice President in 2023. He holds a Bachelor?s degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from DeVry Institute of Technology.