MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. Announces Douglas Carlson, Senior Vice President, Technology, Plans to Retire
May 25, 2023 at 05:00 pm EDT
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MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. announced Dr. Douglas Carlson, Senior Vice President, Technology, plans to retire at the beginning of MACOM's next fiscal year. Dr. Carlson joined MACOM in 1990 as a process engineer in the Gallium Arsenide materials group. Doug has held numerous positions at MACOM, including product line management, operations management and business development.
He led MACOM's wafer fabrication facility during its first major production ramp bringing the operation from a single shift to 24x7 operation. Doug has been instrumental in winning and leading numerous major government funded programs. In collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory, he drove the adoption of commercial manufacturing practices for defense electronics. For over a decade, Dr. Carlson has supported the U.S. Department of Commerce Information Technology Advisory Committee advising on U.S. export regulations.
Before joining MACOM, he served on the research staffs of MIT and Bell Laboratories. Dr. Carlson holds a ScB in Electronic Materials from Brown University and a ScD in Electronic Materials from MIT. He has authored over 40 peer reviewed publications and has been an invited speaker at numerous technical conferences.
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductor products for the telecommunications, industrial and defense and data center industries. The Company is specialized in application, analog and mixed signal circuit design, compound semiconductor fabrication (including gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium nitride (GaN), indium phosphide (InP) and specialized silicon), packaging and back-end assembly and test. It manufactures compound semiconductors, including GaAs, GaN and InP. It offers a product portfolio that incorporates radio frequency (RF), microwave, analog and mixed signal and optical semiconductor technologies. The Company's products are electronic components that its customers generally incorporate into electronic systems, such as wireless base stations, optical networks, data center networks, radar, medical systems and test and measurement applications. It operates facilities across the United States, Europe, Asia.