EPC appoints VP of sales for Greater China and Southeast Asia

Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, says that, to support its accelerating sales growth in Asia Pacific, Roy Chang has joined its leadership team as VP of sales for Greater China and Southeast Asia, based in Taipei, Taiwan.

Chang has over 20 years of experience in R&D, technical sales, and marketing within the computer and semiconductor industry. His primary responsibilities at EPC are creating and implementing sales strategies to achieve sales objectives in Greater China and Southeast Asia, driving design wins and revenue growth as well as assisting customers in adopting eGaN FETs and integrated circuits for power conversion systems.

“As a customer-oriented engineer, Roy Chang has gained solid sales, customer and distribution management experience in multi-national organizations including ramping new technology sales,” comments Nick Cataldo, senior VP of global sales & marketing. “He has a proven track record of managing sales, marketing, and FAE [field application engineer] organization to increase values for customers and turn new business opportunities into results,” he adds.

“I look forward to Roy’s contribution to our sales growth; assisting me in expanding our customer base, maximizing new business acquisition, and capturing new markets throughout Asia Pacific,” says Stephen Tsang, VP of sales, Asia Pacific.

Chang joins EPC from GaN FET designer and manufacturer Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA, where he was VP of sales, Taiwan. Before joining EPC, he held R&D, technical sales, as well as sales & marketing leadership positions with Acer and Texas Instruments.

“With my experience in ramping new technology sales, I look forward to contributing to EPC in creating design wins using our gallium nitride FETs and integrated circuits,” says Chang.