Executive Bios

Gerald Fitch
President and Chief Executive Officer
Gerald Fitch is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Teridian Semiconductor Corp. In this role he is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the company, business development and day-to-day operations. He was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer immediately following the acquisition of the company by Golden Gate Capital. Mr. Fitch joined Teridian’s predecessor company TDK Semiconductor Corp. as Chief Financial Officer in August 2000, and became Chief Operating Officer in August 2004.

Before joining Teridian, from 1997 to 2000 Mr. Fitch served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Airport Group International, a privately-held worldwide property development and management services provider owned by General Electric, Bechtel, and the Soros Quantum fund. From 1991 to 1997 Mr. Fitch was Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller of UnionBanCal Corporation and its primary subsidiary Union Bank, one of the 30 largest financial institutions in the United States.

Mr. Fitch received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from The University of Southern California.

David Gruetter
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
David Gruetter has 20 years of engineering and engineering management experience in development of mixed signal and DSP based ICs for communications and storage applications.

Prior to joining Teridian in 2000, he was Texas Instruments' Director of Engineering for magnetic storage and home networking read/write channels. He had previously held senior engineering positions with Silicon Systems, Inc., which was acquired by Texas Instruments in 1996.

Mr. Gruetter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, and a second Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Computer Science, both from the University of California, Irvine.

Pete Todd
Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Pete Todd is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Teridian Semiconductor Corp. In this role he is responsible for direct sales team and channel management, customer relationship management and design wins, and revenue growth.

Mr. Todd joins Teridian with a strong track record of 20 years of experience in the industry. Todd came to Teridian after spending nearly 6 years successfully building strong global teams and sales traction at start-ups TransDimension, which was acquired by Oxford Semiconductor; and Quartics. Prior to TransDimension, Todd spent over 11 years at Toshiba America Electronic Components, where Todd and his team of 115 sales, application engineers and customer service professionals generated annual revenues in excess of $1 billion. Prior to Toshiba, Todd held various roles with the Northrop Corporation.

Mr. Todd holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical/Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Steve McClure
Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Products
Mr. McClure joins Teridian with a well established record of success, focusing on rapid, high-margin revenue growth. He has more than 15 years in both technical and marketing leadership roles.

Prior to joining Teridian, Mr. McClure served as Executive Director of Marketing at Mindspeed managing the Enterprise Voice Over IP (VOIP) product line and creating OpenMind, the company's VOIP developer ecosystem. Previously, as Director of Marketing at AMCC, Mr. McClure led AMCC's Enterprise diversification strategy including over $300M in acquisitions.

In addition, he successfully led several of AMCC's product lines including the Datacom, and Switching & Network Processing families, securing key design wins at nearly every Tier 1 OEM.

Mr. McClure received his Masters of Business Administration degree with honors, and both Masters of Science and Bachelors of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

John Silk
Director of Operations
John Silk has 23 years of product engineering and quality assurance experience related to volume manufacturing of integrated circuits. He currently heads TSC’s product engineering, test development engineering and quality assurance departments and has led TSC’s successful achievement of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications. John began his career as a product engineer at Rockwell International and later at Silicon Systems, Inc.

John holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Kourosh Boutorabi
Vice President and General Manager, Metering Products
As Vice President & General Manager, Mr. Boutorabi has profit & loss responsibility for Teridian's energy metering business unit and has direct oversight of product planning, marketing, IC design engineering, software development, and applications engineering.

Mr. Boutorabi joined Teridian in June 2002, and has since held PLM and Director of Marketing positions responsible for development of our market leading metering product line. In addition, he has been successful in getting our soft modem AFE and Silicon DAA product lines off the ground with strategic product roadmap development and key design wins at tier 1 OEMs.

Prior to joining Teridian, Mr. Boutorabi worked at Mindspeed Technologies as an Applications Engineering Manager for their xDSL modem product line and has also held Engineering Manager and Director positions at Westinghouse Electric and EG&G Astrophysics.

Mr. Boutorabi earned his Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, from California State University, Fullerton.