ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 5, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, announced the appointment of Chris Humphrey to the position of vice president of corporate marketing, effective immediately. In this role, Humphrey will oversee all corporate marketing activities across all product lines and all geographies.
Humphrey has more than 16 years of business and marketing management experience including leading global marketing and related strategies for a diverse range of industries including: enterprise software, embedded computing, storage networking, scientific instrumentation and security. Prior to joining QLogic, Humphrey served as vice president and general manager for a global strategic business unit within Honeywell Life Safety (formerly Sperian Protection) and has held senior roles at companies such as Lantronix, Applied Micro Circuits (formally JNI), Tyco Fire & Security and Teledyne (formally RD Instruments).
"Chris will articulate and promote QLogic's vision and lead integrated corporate marketing efforts that will continue to build awareness of QLogic® products and solutions in the global marketplace, in addition to overseeing public relations, advertising, industry events, Web communications and social media initiatives," said Simon Biddiscombe, president and chief executive officer, QLogic.
"QLogic offers an unmatched portfolio of high performance Fibre Channel, Ethernet and InfiniBand®-based networking solutions widely respected and admired in the networking industry," said Humphrey. "Datacenter trends including virtualization and cloud computing make it an exciting time, and I am delighted to join the QLogic team as the company executes on these and other growth opportunities."
In his new role, Humphrey will report directly to Biddiscombe.
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About QLogic
QLogic (Nasdaq:QLGC) is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance networking, including adapters, switches and ASICs. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic products for their data, storage and server networking solutions. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com.
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