Ali Pourkeramati is Spansion’s senior vice president of marketing and business development. He is responsible for strategic marketing, product and segment marketing, and identifying new application opportunities and partnerships.
With more than 27 years in the non-volatile memory industry, Pourkeramati has received a number of prestigious recognitions for his work, including more than a dozen patents and several publications in non-volatile memory, architecture, design and Complex Programmable Logic Device (PLD).
Pourkeramati has been with Spansion for over six years, serving in several executive engineering capacities. He was previously the CTO, executive vice president for Applications and Platform Engineering, where he was responsible for Application, Systems and Software Engineering, Platform Development, and New Product Quality. He also served as corporate vice president of Platform Design, responsible for design engineering and new product quality. Pourkeramati was also vice president of Engineering, where he introduced several new methodologies to the company, including the microcontroller and platform product design.
Prior to Spansion, Pourkeramati was founder, president and CEO of Azalea Microelectronics Corp., where he worked for nine years, licensing the company's Flash technology to OEMs in the embedded and consumer markets. In addition, Pourkeramati held manager, director and vice president level engineering positions at International CMOS Technology, Inc., ICT and Signetics Corporation where he spearheaded a number of non-volatile memory innovations. At Signetics, he was responsible for designing the first NMOS 64K memory. At International CMOS and ICT, he pioneered simple PLD and Complex PLD, based on non-volatile memory.
Pourkeramati holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University and a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering from Oregon State University.