Actel Names New Worldwide Sales Vice President Taps Former Sharp Executive

Business Wire, Feb 7, 1996

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 1996--John East, president and CEO of Actel Corporation, today announced the appointment of Douglas D. Goodyear as the company's vice president, Worldwide Sales.

Goodyear, a 17 year veteran of electronic systems and component sales, will join Actel on February 20, replacing M. Douglas Rankin who has chosen to retire after 10 years with the Company. Rankin will assist in the transition and remain with Actel in an advisory capacity.

Doug Goodyear is vacating the position of vice president of North American Sales for Sharp Electronics in Camas, Wash., where he headed a 65 person direct selling organization that accounts for over $700 million in electronic component, disk drive, and CCD camera sales. During a four year period at Sharp, Goodyear grew sales four-fold while reorganizing the company's direct sales and industrial distribution network.

Before joining Sharp, Goodyear held sales and sales management positions at Hitachi, AMD and Signetics (now Philips Semiconductor).

"Doug Goodyear has excellent systems and component selling experience and has successfully built and managed a rapidly growing sales function similar to Actel's. We are looking to Doug to help take Actel to the next level of customer satisfaction as we move toward the $500 million mark by evolving and growing the excellent organization and programs developed by Doug Rankin," East said when making the announcement.

Goodyear holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Nebraska in Industrial Management and Computer Science.

Doug and his family will relocate to the Bay Area in the near future.

About Actel

Actel Corporation is the world's leading supplier of antifuse-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and associated software development tools. FPGAs are used by designers of voice and data communication, computer, medical and industrial control, and military/aerospace, and other electronic systems to differentiate their products and get them to market.

Actel's proprietary, cost-effective antifuse architecture offers system size and performance advantages, as well as increased gate utilization and high level design efficiencies. Actel is dedicated to providing logic designers with the capability to move up to higher complexity designs with confidence. Actel is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol ACTL and is located at 955 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4533. Telephone: 408/739-1010. Internet address: http://www.actel.com

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