Ali Pourkeramati is Spansion’s senior vice president of strategic alliances and business development.
With more than 28 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 seven years, serving in several executive management and engineering capacities. He was previously the senior vice president of marketing as well as the company’s CTO. He also served as executive vice president for Applications and Platform Engineering, corporate vice president of Platform Design and 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.