Ahmed Nawaz

Ahmed Nawaz is executive vice president of Spansion’s Wireless Solutions Division and is responsible for expanding Spansion’s growth for this division. He also oversees the division’s marketing, platform engineering, infrastructure development and program management functions. He brings 30 years in high-tech, including more than 17 years as an executive to the position. Prior to Spansion®, Nawaz was executive vice president of worldwide sales at Agere Systems. Prior to this, he was president of the integrated circuits division of Lucent's Microelectronics Group, with full responsibility for the company's $2.5 billion IC business. At Lucent, he also led the profitable Wireless, Network Communications, Computing and the Access business units, and global manufacturing operations and was also vice president of marketing and strategy where he was responsible for formulating and driving an applications-focused strategic direction for the Microelectronics Group. Additionally, Nawaz spent 14 years at Texas Instruments, where he held various engineering, applications, marketing and general management positions. He has been a speaker and panelist at many industry conferences, including, SIGGRAPH, NCGA, MicroSystems Forum, and other PC, wireless and communication conferences, and is a member of the board of directors of Digi International. Nawaz holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in Business Administration from Houston Baptist University.