Steven Laub is President and CEO of Atmel Corporation. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Image and spent 13 years in executive positions at Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a leading supplier of programmable logic devices and related software. Mr. Laub has successfully managed organizations through periods of substantial growth. He has been responsible for the negotiation and subsequent integration of several acquisitions, including the $500 million acquisition of Vantis Corporation from AMD in 1999 and the $250 million acquisition of Agere's FPGA business in 2002. He has held management responsibility for an organization with over 800 staff members worldwide. Prior to his tenure at Lattice, Mr. Laub was a partner at Bain & Company, a global strategic consulting firm. At Bain, he was responsible for defining and leading corporate and business unit strategies, new product definition, and mergers and acquisitions evaluation activities for a broad array of semiconductor, PC peripheral, data storage and software clients. Steven earned a BA in Economics from UCLA and a J.D. from Harvard.