Eric Broockman is the founder and CEO of Alereon. He came to the company from Legerity, where he served as the vice president of global marketing and general manager of the Voice over Broadband product line. He has more than 23 years of leadership practice in the fabless semiconductor and communication IC industries, with specific experience in managing product development, customer and strategic marketing, branding, marketing communications and public relations.
Before joining Legerity, Broockman served as CEO and president of Alchemy Semiconductor, where he was instrumental in the company's successful spin-out from the Austin Microprocessor Design Group of Cadence Design Systems, and in the company's introduction of the world's highest performance, lowest power Internet edge processor system-on-a-chip (SOC). Prior to his tenure at Alchemy, Broockman held senior management positions at Cirrus Logic, including vice president and general manager of the Crystal Industrial and Communications Products Division.
Before joining Cirrus Logic, Broockman worked at IBM for 17 years. He held positions there as the DSP product line manager for IBM Microelectronics, product manager of High Bandwidth Systems, the SNA architecture manager, a senior technical staff member for IBM's networking products division, and a senior design engineer.
Broockman has expertise in both bipolar and NMOS technologies, holds eight U.S. patents and was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow. He graduated from the University of Florida with B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering.
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