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Energy Micro expands USA sales team

August 9th, 2010 - Energy Micro, the energy friendly microcontroller company, has expanded its USA sales team with the appointment of Nick Brown as Area Sales Director, East. Based in North Carolina, Brown reports to Energy's VP Sales Americas, Raman Sharma.

Nicholas (Nick) Brown joins Energy Micro as Area Sales Director of Americas, based in Raleigh, NC. Formerly Global Launch Marketing Manager of Freescale’s ARM Cortex-M4 MCUs, Nick brings seven years experience in strategic sales at Freescale and technical sales at Victory Sales representing companies including IBM Microelectronics, Actel, SanDisk, Intersil, Sanmina-SCI and Microchip. Nick has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Energy Micro's VP Sales & Marketing Andreas Koller said, "North America is home to some very significant markets for our EFM32 microcontrollers and Nick's appointment is one of a number we'll be making to ensure a high level of customer service in the country. Energy sensitive applications including energy metering, home automation and medical systems need to dramatically extend battery life, we can make this happen today."

Consuming a quarter of the energy required by other 8, 16 and 32-bit microcontrollers, Energy Micro's first product, the EFM32 Gecko microcontroller family was launched in October 2009 and is in full production. The company has since announced details of its software and pin-compatible Tiny Gecko and Giant Gecko products, offering a comprehensive choice of package and memory size options.

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Øyvind Borgan, Energy Micro AS, PO Box 4633, Nydalen, N-405 Oslo, Norway

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About Energy Micro
Energy Micro develops, markets and sells the world's most energy friendly microcontrollers, based on the industry leading ARM® Cortex™-M3 32-bit architecture. The company was founded in 2007 by experienced semiconductor professionals with previous expertise from Chipcon, Texas Instruments, Atmel, Nordic Semiconductor. Energy Micro is backed by leading Nordic investors Northzone Ventures and Investinor. More information on Energy Micro is available at www.energymicro.com

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