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Patrizio Vinciarelli

Patrizio Vinciarelli

Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Vinciarelli founded the Corporation in 1981 and has been Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer since that time. Prior to founding the Corporation, from 1977 until 1980, he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1973 through 1976, he was a Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in Meyrin, Switzerland. Dr. Vinciarelli received his doctorate in Physics from the University of Rome, Italy. Dr. Vinciarelli holds more than 100 patents for power conversion technology.

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Sean Crilly

Corporate Vice President, Engineering, Power Systems

Mr. Crilly has served in his current role since 2015. From 2012 to 2015, Mr. Crilly served as Vice President, Engineering, VI Chip. From 2006 to 2012, Mr. Crilly held the position of Director of Sustaining Engineering, and, from 2000 to 2006, the position of Manager, Test Engineering. Previously, Mr. Crilly held the positions of Project Manager, from 1996 to 2000, and Senior Test Engineer, from 1993 to 1996. Prior to joining the Corporation in 1993, Mr. Crilly was Vice President of Applications Engineering at Intepro Systems, specializing in power electronics test equipment. Earlier, he was employed in engineering roles at Schaffner and Nixdorf Computer. Mr. Crilly received a B.Eng. in Electronics from the Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland.

Phil Davies

Philip D. Davies

Corporate Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing

Mr. Davies has served as our Corporate Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, since 2011. Prior to joining the Corporation, Mr. Davies was employed by the Solid State Light Engine business unit of OSRAM Sylvania as Business Creation Team Leader from September 2010 to February 2011. From 2006 to 2010, Mr. Davies held the position of Vice President, Sales and Marketing, with NoblePeak Vision Corporation, a developer of night vision camera cores. From 1995 to 2006, Mr. Davies served in various positions with Analog Devices, Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits, most recently as Director of World Wide Business Development. From 1987 to 1995, Mr. Davies served in a number of positions with Allegro MicroSystems, Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance power and Hall-effect sensor integrated circuits, most recently as Vice President, Engineering. Mr. Davies received a B.S.E.E. and a Masters degree in Power Electronics from the University of Glamorgan.

Al Doyle

Alvaro Doyle

Corporate Vice President, Chief Information Officer

Mr. Doyle has served in his current role since 2020. From 2017, Mr. Doyle served as Vice President of Application Development and Business Analytics, also assuming the role as Chief Compliance Officer starting 2020.  Over the course of his career at Vicor starting in 1998, he has held various leadership roles including Director of Application Development, Senior Technical Manager, Manager of Manufacturing Systems, Principal Software Engineer, and Senior Software Engineer. Prior to Vicor, Mr. Doyle worked as a software engineer at the UMass Medical School’s Peoplesoft integration group. Mr. Doyle received a B.S. in Information Systems Management from the University of San Francisco.

Quentin Fendelet

Quentin Fendelet

Corporate Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer

Mr. Fendelet joined Vicor in February 2022 and assumed the role of Chief Accounting Officer in March 2022. Prior to joining the Corporation, Mr. Fendelet served in a variety of senior leadership positions with increasing responsibilities in Accounting, Finance and Operations, serving as Sr. Financial Consultant with Fenway Consulting Group and CBIZ Private Equity Advisory, Vice President Controller with Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc., Vice President of Finance with Courier Corporation and Sr. Vice President Finance and Administration with TomTom, Inc.  In previous positions, Mr. Fendelet was responsible for overseeing finance and accounting operations, systems improvements and implementations and guiding strategic financial and business decisions. Mr. Fendelet earned a B.S. in Business Administration in Accounting from Merrimack College and an M.B.A in Finance from the Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business. Mr. Fendelet is also a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant.

Robert Gendron

Robert Gendron, P.E.

Corporate Vice President, Product Management & Development

Mr. Gendron has served in his current role since September, 2021. From 2017 to 2021, Mr. Gendron served as Corporate Vice President or Product Marketing & Technical Resources. From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Gendron served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for the Picor and VI Chip subsidiaries of the Corporation. From 2011 to 2014, he served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Picor. Prior to joining Picor, Mr. Gendron held senior marketing and sales roles at various semiconductor companies including Analog Devices, STMicroelectronics, Fairchild Semiconductor, International Rectifier, and Volterra. Mr. Gendron also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for the University of New Hampshire Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, an M.B.A. from the Whittemore School of Business at the University of New Hampshire, and is a registered Professional Engineer by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Nancy Grava

Nancy L. Grava

Corporate Vice President, Human Resources

Ms. Grava has served in her current role since 2015. From 2009 to 2015, Ms. Grava held the position of Director, Human Resources. From 2002 to 2009, Ms. Grava held the position of Senior Manager, Compensation and Benefits and, from 1999 to 2002, the position of Manager, Compensation and Benefits. Previously, Ms. Grava held various other positions within Human Resources since joining the Corporation in 1993. Ms. Grava received a B.A. from the Massachusetts School of Liberal Arts and an M.B.A. from Bentley University.

Alex Gusinov

Alex Gusinov

Corporate Vice President, Engineering, Power Components

Mr. Gusinov has served in his current role since 2015. From 2006 to 2015, Mr. Gusinov served as Vice President of Design Engineering for Picor Corporation. He joined Picor in 2004 as Director of IC Design. Prior to joining Picor, Mr. Gusinov was employed by SIPEX Corporation from 1996 to 2004, most recently as Vice President of Design Engineering, Power Management. From 1986 to 1996, he was employed by Analog Devices, Inc., developing integrated circuits for telecom, fiber optics, video, and related applications. Mr. Gusinov received a B.S.E.E. from Boston University and an M.S. in Engineering Management from Gordon Institute of Tufts University.

Mike McNamara

Michael S. McNamara

Corporate Vice President, General Manager, Operations

Mr. McNamara has served in his current role since 2015. Mr. McNamara held the positions of Corporate Vice President, Quality and Technical Operations, from May 2011 to May 2015, Vice President, Quality and Technical Operation of the Corporation’s Brick Business Unit from 2008 to 2011, Vice President, Quality of the Corporation’s Brick Business Unit from 2006 to 2008, Senior Director of Quality from 2001 to 2008, Manager of Quality, Data and Analysis from 1999 to 2001 and Senior Quality Engineer from 1995 to 1999. Prior to joining the Corporation in 1995, Mr. McNamara was employed by Alpha Industries Inc., the predecessor to Skyworks Solutions, Inc. Mr. McNamara received a B.S. in Industrial Technology from the University of Lowell.

James F. Schmidt

James F. Schmidt

Corporate Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary

Mr. Schmidt joined the Corporation in June 2021. Prior to joining Vicor, Mr. Schmidt served in a variety of leadership roles in Finance, Engineering, Operations and Sales at Analog Devices, Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits. Beginning his career in wafer fabrication in 1984, Mr. Schmidt held positions of increasing responsibility in Quality Assurance, Operations, Finance, Sales Operations and culminating in his position as Vice-President, Global Broad Market, Channel Sales and Sales Operations. Mr. Schmidt has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Claudio- Tuozzolo

Claudio Tuozzolo

Corporate Vice President,  President Vicor Power Components

Mr. Tuozzolo has been President, Vicor Power Systems since Picor Corporation was merged with and into Vicor in May 2018.  Previously, he had been President of Picor since 2003. Prior to that, he had been Director of Integrated Circuit Engineering for the Corporation, from February 2003 to November 2003, and Manager of Integrated Circuit Design, from 2001 to February 2003. Before joining the Corporation in 2001, Mr. Tuozzolo was a Principal Design Engineer for SIPEX Corporation, from 1999 to 2001. Mr. Tuozzolo has authored nine U.S. patents in semiconductor design. He attended the University of Rome and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island.

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