What Happened?
Huntsville, AL-based Digium has Promoted Mark Spencer as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Integrated Device Technology, Inc., founded in 1980, delivers system-level innovations that optimize customers’ applications and enrich the end-user experience. Over the years, IDT’s customer base has demanded that the industry reevaluate mixed-signal integrated circuit products — IDT rose to accept that challenge. IDT continues to build on its No. 1 positions in timing, serial switching and memory interfaces to expand its mixed-signal content in Communications, Computing and Consumer applications, driven by three major market drivers including cloud computing, consumer mobility and 4G/LTE. The company’s product portfolio has become a fusion of analog and system expertise as well as traditional digital competencies, providing customers with complete application-optimized mixed-signal solutions. The IDT 30+ year heritage and innovation in digital technologies, coupled with its in-house analog talents and capabilities, make IDT the premier analog and digital company. Headquartered in San Jose, California, IDT has design, manufacturing and sales facilities throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol “IDTI.”
About the Person
Mark Spencer founded Digium, Inc. in 1999 and has been its Chief Technology Officer since January 30, 2007. Mr. Spencer is also the creator of Asterisk, a Linux-based open-sourced PBX in software. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Digium, Inc. He has been the Chairman of the Board and Director of Digium, Inc. since January 30, 2007. He served as a Director at Everyone Counts, Inc. Mark Spencer revolutionized digital telephony in 1999, when he created Asterisk—the world's first open source telephony platform. Running a tech support company at the time, and faced with proprietary, expensive telephony solutions, Mark used his knowledge of the open source Linux operating system, computer engineering, and programming to build his own telephony platform. And thus Asterisk was born. Widely seen as a technology leader, in 2006 Mark was featured in a Forbes Magazine article “Dial ‘D’ for Disruption” and also gives keynote speeches around the world on technology and entrepreneurship. Mr. Spencer was a computer engineering student at Auburn University in 1999.
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