Discera Adds Sales Executive to Management Team

Gene Jakubowski brings extensive sales management experience with global customer base

San Jose, CA, December 13, 2005
Close on the heels of announcing Tom Willey as Chief Executive Officer, Discera (www.discera.com) an analog fabless semiconductor company, and industry leader in CMOS MEMS technology, today announced the addition of Gene Jakubowski, to its management team, effective immediately. Mr. Jakubowski will report to Mr. Willey, and oversee Discera’s global expansion of its sales channels, and customer engagements as Vice President of Sales. The position is new.

“Discera is poised to accelerate into the next phase of the company’s growth, as we get ready to roll out new products into the market” said Mr. Willey. “We are pleased to welcome Gene to the management team, to assist with this next step in our development. Gene’s extensive experience building a world class sales organization and managing the sales process is critical to growing the business at Discera.”

Mr. Jakubowski brings 27 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. After seven years with TI, Gene joined VLSI Technology as an Area Sales Manager. During his 14 years at VLSI Technology, Gene was a VP of Sales with VLSI Technology for 9 years and was responsible for a variety of market segment and geographical territories, including PC, Digital Consumer, and Wireless market segments. In 2000, Gene joined Zeevo, Inc. as their first VP of WW Sales and helped Zeevo grow to over $15 Million in annual revenue in 2004 with key design wins at HP, Motorola, Logitech, and numerous tier 1 customers around the world."

“Discera has a compelling value proposition and a leadership position in high performance, small form factor, Silicon based MEMS resonators and oscillators,” said Mr. Jakubowski. “The potential for rapid sales growth at Discera is phenomenal, and I look forward to joining this world-class team.”