Carla Golla
Executive Vice President, Security and Advanced Technology Division

Carla Golla is executive vice president of the Security and Advanced Technology Division and is responsible for driving the strategic direction and deployment of Spansion secure memory solutions, including the company’s MirrorBit® HD-SIM™ product family. In addition, Golla is charged with creating the company’s advanced technology strategy, leveraging the Spansion and TSMC joint development for MirrorBit technology at 40nm and below.

Golla brings more than 23 years of expertise in the semiconductor business to Spansion, having received extensive industry recognition for her work, including over 50 patents, co-author of several papers on a variety of Flash memory topics and is a frequent presenter at technology conferences.

Prior to joining Spansion, Golla held several management and technical positions with ST Microelectronics, most recently serving as general manager of the NAND Flash and Storage Media product group, where she was responsible for spearheading the NAND activities at ST, including hardware and software design, product engineering, quality, planning, product marketing, business development, field technical support, customer service and financial control. While at ST, she was responsible for many initiatives and innovations, including strategic and designing EPROM memories and application specific memories.

Golla has a master’s degree in Nuclear Physics from the University of Milan, where she also holds an undergraduate degree in Physics.