Jeff Davis
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing

Jeff Davis is Spansion's executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. He brings nearly 25 years of experience in sales and engineering for high-profile companies to his position. Davis has a proven ability to drive worldwide sales operations towards growth and profitability. He is currently leading the global sales and marketing effort to transition into new markets and expanded targeted areas of opportunity.

Davis joined Spansion from AMD where he was corporate vice president of worldwide sales and operations for AMD's Memory Products Group. In this capacity, he orchestrated domestic and international sales efforts and saw substantial revenue growth in his unit.

Davis began his career as a sales engineer at Motorola in 1982, holding several positions in sales, sales management and support operations. In 1991, Davis moved to Motorola's Phoenix Technology Center and began focusing on the development of silicon- and system-level solutions for strategic accounts, being promoted to vice president in 1993.

Davis' work at Motorola effected substantial growth and profitability. In 1998, while working as vice president of worldwide sales for Motorola's Consumer Systems Group,Davis worked with a turnaround team that took the Consumer Systems Group from a significant loss to profitability in just 18 months. The following year Davis transitioned to vice president of worldwide sales for the Networking and Computing Systems Group with revenues of $2.7 billion.

Davis holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.