34 Dialog Semiconductor Plc | Annual report and accounts 2012 |  Section 3 | Management and governance Executive management Dr Jalal Bagherli Chief Executive Officer  Andrew Austin Vice President, Sales Gary Duncan Vice President, Product Development Mohamed Djadoudi Vice President, Global Manufacturing  Operations and Quality Dr Karim Arabi Vice President, Engineering Technology Christophe Chene Vice President, Asia of the management buy-out team of ASAT UK,  where he served as the Technical Director.  Mohamed holds an Electronic and Electrotechnic  degree from the Paris University of Technology. Logic and was co-founder of Opmaxx, acquired  by Credence. Karim obtained his MSc and PhD  degrees in Electronics from the Ecole Polytechnique  de Montreal, Canada. Jalal joined Dialog as CEO and an executive board  director in September 2005. He was previously  Vice President & General Manager of the Mobile  Multimedia business unit for Broadcom Corporation.  Prior to that Jalal was the CEO of Alphamosaic,  a venture-funded silicon start-up company in  Cambridge, focusing on video processing chips  for the mobile applications. He has extensive  experience of the semiconductor industry, through  his previous professional and executive positions  at Sony Semiconductor and Texas Instruments,  managing semiconductor product businesses  and working with customers in the Far East,  Europe and North America. Jalal is a non-executive director of Lime  Microsystems Ltd since 2005 and the Chairman  of Global Semiconductor Association Europe  since 2011. He has a BSc (Hons) in Electronics  Engineering from Essex University, and holds a PhD in Electronics from Kent University, UK. Karim joined Dialog Semiconductor in September  2012 and is responsible for driving overall  technology leadership and advanced product  development. He brings over 20 years of  experience in various fields of semiconductor  industry to Dialog. Prior to joining Dialog, Karim served as Vice President, Engineering at Qualcomm. Karim also held key technical  leadership positions at PMC Sierra and Cirrus  Mohamed joined Dialog in March 2007 and  is responsible for product engineering, test  and assembly development, data automation,  software support, offshore manufacturing  operations and quality. Mohamed has more  than 25 years’ experience in the field of  semiconductor manufacturing operations,  starting initially with IBM in France and the US.  He was previously Senior Vice President and  Chief Technology Officer of the Unisem group,  an assembly and test subcontractor based in  Malaysia and China. He also held the position  of Vice President of Test Operations at ASAT  (Atlantis Technology), based in Hong Kong,  before becoming one of the original members  Christophe joined Dialog in November 2011  as Vice President, Asia and is based in Taiwan.  He has over 20 years of experience in the  semiconductor industry, focusing on building  international businesses with a strong Asian  footprint. Previously he served as Senior Vice  President and General Manager of the TV  Business Unit as well as Senior Vice President  of worldwide sales for Trident Microsystems.  Prior to that, Christophe served in various  international executive and managerial  positions at Texas Instruments, Sharp and Xilinx.  Christophe holds an Electronics Engineering  degree from INSA, Toulouse. Gary, who joined the Company in October  1987, is responsible for all IC design and  development activities. He has over 30 years’  experience in the semiconductor industry and  previously he held senior engineering and  management roles at Plessey, Texas Instruments  and ES2 with a particular specialism in process  engineering, test and product engineering and  yield improvement. Andrew joined Dialog in April 2009. He was  previously a Sales and Marketing consultant  specialising in the semiconductor and high- performance sports industries. He has extensive  experience of the semiconductor industry  through his previous professional positions  at Texas Instruments and Raytheon Systems.  Andrew holds a degree in Electrical and  Electronics from Hertford University. 