Management Team

Mr. Balakrishnan joined Power Integrations in 1989, serving in a variety of roles before becoming president and COO in April 2001. He was named CEO and appointed to the company's board of directors in January 2002. Mr. Balakrishnan has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing and management experience in the semiconductor industry, including product-line management responsibility at National Semiconductor Corporation. He is the chief inventor of Power Integrations' TOPSwitch®, TinySwitch® and EcoSmart® technologies and holds 120 patents. Mr. Balakrishnan has received the Discover Award for Technological Innovation as well as a TechAmerica Innovator Award, both in recognition of the environmental benefits of EcoSmart technology.

Mr. Bailey joined Power Integrations in November 2004 as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining PI, Mr. Bailey served as vice president of marketing at ChipX, a structured ASIC company. His earlier experience includes Business Management and Marketing Consultant for Sapiential Prime, Inc.., Director of Sales and Business Unit Manager for 8x8, Inc., application engineering management for IIT, Inc. and design engineering roles with LSI Logic, Inmos, Ltd. and Marconi.

Mr. Bell has served as vice president of engineering since joining Power Integrations in April 2001. During 1999 and 2000 Mr. Bell was vice president of engineering for the professional services group at Synopsys, Inc. From 1996 to 1999, he was vice president of strategic alliances at Cirrus Logic, Inc. From 1995 to 1996 he was vice president and general manager of the application specific product group at National Semiconductor Corporation, and from 1990 to 1994 he served as president and CEO of NovaSensor, a manufacturer of silicon sensors. From 1972 to 1990 he held various senior management positions at Signetics.

Mr. Nayyar joined Power Integrations in 2010 as vice president of finance and chief financial officer. Previously, Mr. Nayyar spent eight years at Applied Biosystems, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of life-sciences products, serving as vice president of finance from 2002 through 2009. From 1990 to 2001, Mr. Nayyar held a succession of financial roles at Quantum Corporation, including vice president of finance for the company's hard-disk-drive and high-end-storage divisions. Prior to joining Quantum, Mr. Nayyar spent five years in the public-accounting field at Ernst and Young.

Mr. Sutherland was named vice president of worldwide sales in July 2011. Since joining Power Integrations in 2000, he has served in a succession of sales-management roles including, most recently, senior sales director with responsibility for a broad geographic territory including Europe, India, Southeast Asia, Japan and the Americas. Prior to joining Power Integrations he served in sales-management and product-marketing roles at Vishay Intertechnology and AVX Kyocera.

Mr. Tomlin has served as vice president of operations since October 2001. From 1981 to 2001, Mr. Tomlin served in a variety of senior management positions in operations, service, logistics and marketing, most recently as vice president of worldwide operations, at Quantum Corporation.

Mr. Walker has served as vice president of corporate development and information technology since June 1995. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Walker served as vice president of Reach Software. From 1993 to 1994, he was president of Morgan Walker, a consulting company.