Dan Byers
VP - Field Engineering & Corporate Strategic Marketing
Spansion Inc.

Dan Byers is the Vice President of Field Engineering & Corporate Strategic Marketing at Spansion Inc., a leading Flash memory solutions provider dedicated to enabling, storing and protecting digital content in wireless, automotive, networking and consumer electronics applications. In this role he guides the World Wide Field Applications Engineering activity in the Americas, EMEA, China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan. He is also responsible for the Strategic Marketing Function for Spansion at a corporate level.

Byers has 19 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in various positions in Field Applications, Sales, ASIC design and Technical Management.

Prior to joining Spansion, he worked at Motorola Semiconductor for 14 years and spent 8 years in embedded system hardware and software design in the RF and medical electronics industries. Dan has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University and holds a U.S. patent in the area of Digital Signal Processing algorithms used in Satellite Communications.