Employees at Data I/O Corporation rank Anthony Ambrose in the Top 50% of CEOs in Seattle. Comparatively, employees at Lattice Semiconductor rank Jim Anderson in the Top 5% of CEOs in Portland. Employees rate their CEO differently based on the frequency of interaction, ability to affect company culture, and drive measurable results.

Anthony Ambrose

CEO of Data I/O Corporation

BIO: Mr. Anthony Ambrose has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Data I/O Corporation since October 25, 2012. Mr. Ambrose served as Vice President and General Manager of Communications Networks business for RadiSys Corp. since February 26, 2007 and manages ATCA and core networks products. He has over 23 years of engineering, development, sales and marketing experience, as well as deep expertise and market knowledge in the embedded, telecommunications and ATCA markets. Prior to Data I/O, he was Owner and Principal of Cedar Mill Partners, LLC. Until 2011, he served as Vice President and General Manager at RadiSys Corporation where he led three product divisions and worldwide engineering. At RadiSys, he established the telecom platform business and grew it to over $125M in annual revenues. Until 2007, he was General Manager and held several other progressively responsible positions at Intel Corporation, where he led development and marketing of standards based telecommunications platforms and grew the industry standard server business to over $1B in revenues. He served as General Manager of the Modular Communications Platform Division (MCPD) at Intel Corporation. He joined RadiSys Corp. in 2007. Mr. Ambrose has been a Director of Data I/O Corporation since October 25, 2012. He led processor marketing and strategy for the enterprise server business, establishing the Xeon processor as a multi billion dollar business. He also has extensive experience in engineering and account management. Mr. Ambrose holds a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from Princeton University, Graduating Magna cum Laude.

Jim Anderson

CEO of Lattice Semiconductor

BIO: Jim Anderson is Lattice Semiconductor’s President and Chief Executive Officer and serves on the company’s Board of Directors. He joined Lattice in September 2018 and focused the company on its mission as the leader in low power programmable solutions. Since then, the company accelerated its cadence of innovative product introductions and achieved record profitability. Prior to joining Lattice, Jim served as the senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Computing and Graphics business group, where he was responsible for global sales, marketing, and engineering. While at AMD, Jim drove a transformation that brought disruptive new products to market and generated industry-leading revenue growth. Prior to AMD, Jim held a broad range of leadership positions spanning general management, engineering, sales, marketing, and corporate strategy at companies including Intel, Broadcom (formerly Avago Technologies), and LSI Corporation. Jim serves on the Board of Directors of Sierra Wireless, a leader in edge-to-cloud solutions. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association, as well as the MIT Sloan Americas Executive Board and the Dean’s Advisory Board for the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Jim was previously a member of the Board of Directors of Qylur Intelligent Systems, a privately held AI/IoT security systems company. Jim holds an MBA and Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. He holds four patents for innovations in computer architecture.