David E. Orton

David E.
Orton is currently the President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at GEO Semiconductor, Inc. He previously held positions as the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc., President & Chief Executive Officer at ATI Technologies ULC, Chief Executive Officer at SuVolta, Inc., President & Chief Executive Officer at ArtX, Inc., Chief Executive Officer at Aptina LLC, Co-Chairman at Crane Payment Innovations Ltd., Director at SuVolta, Inc., and Director at zSpace, Inc. He also served as the Executive VP-Visual & Media Businesses at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Principal at GE Aerospace, Senior VP, GM-Visual Computing & Scalable Systems at Silicon Graphics, Inc., and Engineer at Bell Laboratories.
Additionally, he was the Vice President-Sales & Marketing at Legend Power Systems, Inc. Mr. Orton holds a graduate degree from Duke University and an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University.