Akros Silicon appoints Director of Applications

Before joining Akros, Fred was a Senior Principal Applications Engineer at Intersil where he was responsible for the architecture, validation and support of isolated power products. Before Intersil, he worked for Artesyn Embedded Technologies where he developed distributed power architecture and associated hardware for OEM customers.

Prior to that, he designed AC/DC and DC/DC converters for telecomms switches, routers, servers and enterprise-level systems for internal and OEM customers at AT&T Power Systems (now GE Energy). While employed at AT&T he also managed engineering teams responsible for the development and support of embedded power for AT&T telecomms switches.

Before AT&T Fred Greenfeld was employed by IBM developing power supplies for PC and communication controller applications. He began his career at Unisys (formerly Burroughs) where he designed multi-kW power systems for enterprise-level and document processing systems. He has a B.S. Physics and an M.S.E.E. from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

“Fred’s deep knowledge of isolated power architectures and broad experience managing engineering teams will be integral to providing our customers with world class technical support and design expertise for their next generation systems,” commented Elie Antoun, President and CEO, Akros Silicon.