Ali Pourkeramati
Executive Vice President, Applications and Platform Engineering

Ali Pourkeramati is executive vice president, Applications and Platform Engineering, at Spansion, responsible for Application, Systems and Software Engineering, Platform Development, and New Product Quality. Previously, Pourkeramati was corporate vice president of Platform Design, responsible for design engineering and new product quality at Spansion. Pourkeramati also served as vice president of Engineering at Spansion, where he introduced several new methodologies to the company, including the microcontroller and platform product design.

Pourkeramati brings more than 24 years in the non-volatile memory industry to Spansion, having 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).

Prior to Spansion in 2004, 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. Additionally, 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 masters degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University and a bachelor's in electrical and computer engineering from Oregon State University.