Sam Rogan Appointed President of Xilinx Japan

OSAKI, Japan, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced that Sam Rogan, 41, has been promoted to president and representative director of the company's Japan subsidiary, Xilinx, K.K. (Osaki, Shinagawa-ku) from his current position as vice president of sales. Rogan succeeds Hitoshi Yoshizawa, 60, who will retire after 35 years of service in the electronics industry. The appointment will become official at the annual Xilinx, K.K. general meeting of shareholders on May 30.

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In his new role, Rogan will build upon a foundation established over the past several years by a seasoned management team led by Yoshizawa as president of Xilinx, K.K. Rogan's charter is to strengthen the organizational, service and support infrastructure of its Japanese subsidiary to deliver the price, performance and flexibility benefits of Xilinx programmable solutions to a broader base of customers. As of the most recent quarter ending in March 2008, represents 10 percent of total Xilinx sales.

"Under Sam's leadership, the Japan team will continue to play a pivotal role in Xilinx' successful market diversification strategy, particularly in digital consumer markets," said Moshe Gavrielov, Xilinx president and CEO. "We're grateful for the contributions made by Yoshizawa-san over the past four years and confident that Sam is the right person to lead Xilinx K.K. through its next stage of growth, delivering solutions that contribute to the expansion of our customers' global business."

"It's an honor to take the mantle from Yoshizawa-san," added Rogan, newly-appointed Xilinx K.K. president. "As the world's leading supplier of programmable solutions, our top priority is to deliver solutions tailored to customer requirements and matched to the market. In Japan, the inherent benefits of programmability are ideally suited to help our customers meet the challenge of getting to market faster with highly-differentiated products with increasingly shorter life cycles."

Rogan brings more than 20 years of executive, sales and marketing experience to his new position at the helm of Xilinx, K.K. Before joining Xilinx in 2007 as vice president of sales, Rogan served as vice president of sales and marketing for Spansion Japan, with responsibility for the consumer, smart card, and industrial division. Before that, Rogan spent 16 years at AMD where he held a variety of positions, including director of marketing for Asia Pacific, president of AMD Korea and president of AMD Thailand. Rogan possesses a B.A. in Japanese from San Francisco State University.

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