Micron Technology, Inc announces reorganisation
Micron Technology, Inc. announced a company reorganisation, focused on furthering the success of its product diversification efforts, according to a report by Business Wire.
In these developments Micron has announced the appointment of Mark Durcan, the company's current chief technical officer (CTO) and vice president of research and development, to the position of chief operating officer (COO). In addition to his responsibilities for research and development activities, Durcan will be responsible for the company's global operations.
Micron also announced that it is merging its mobile and systems memory business units into one memory group poised to deliver a variety of NAND flash, DRAM and speciality memory solutions to its customers. Brian Shirley has been appointed vice president of memory responsible for the combined groups.
"Micron's products, customers and the solutions we enable have evolved to a point where changing parts of our organisation will continue to increase our presence and competitiveness in the global marketplace," said Steve Appleton, Micron Chairman, President and CEO.
Within the new combined memory group, Jan du Preez, formerly vice president of Micron's mobile memory group will now serve as the vice president of memory marketing. Micron has also appointed John Schreck to the role of vice president of DRAM development and Frankie Roohparvar to the role of vice president of NAND development.
