The President and CEO of ESS Technology, Inc, a fabless semiconductor company, Robert Blair joins Supermicro board of directors. Supermicro is a total IT solution provider for cloud, AI/ML, storage and 5G/Edge’
“The Board of Directors and I are excited that Robert Blair has joined Supermicro as a Director,” said Charles Liang, chairman of Supermicro’s Board of Directors. “Robert has extensive experience as a CEO successfully leading teams and driving product innovation in new technology markets, and we look forward to his contributions to our future growth.”
Having led ESS as its president and CEO for 19 years from September 1999 through July 2018, he also served as a director from September 1999 through August 2019. During this time, ESS was a publicly listed company on NASDAQ for nine years. Robert has been a director of Pictos, Inc., a technology licensing company that owns a portfolio of fundamental CMOS imaging patents, since July 2008, where he also previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer between 2008 and 2013. His professional background also includes more than 35 years of experience in marketing, sales, engineering, operations, and general management, principally in the computer hardware, software, and semiconductor industries. His experience includes roles at Global Semiconductor Alliance, Logistix Corporation, and XEMAG (a division of Xidex Corporation). Mr. Blair holds twelve issued U.S. patents plus additional patents worldwide and studied electrical engineering at Arizona State University and applied economics at the University of San Francisco.
