Nelson Duann

Mr. Duann became our Senior Vice President of Client & Automotive Storage in December 2023, after serving as Senior Vice President of Marketing and R&D for mobile storage since November 2018. In this role, he oversees product planning, major OEM business development and OEM project management for the Company’s client SSD controllers, mobile controllers, Ferri products and expandable controllers. He joined Silicon Motion in August 2007 as a product marketing director and R&D team leader. Having served with Silicon Motion since 2007, Mr. Duann has nearly 25 years of experience in product design, development, and marketing in the semiconductor industry. Mr. Duann was most recently leading Silicon Motion’s marketing and R&D efforts and has played a key role in leading the company’s OEM business for mobile storage and SSD controller solutions, helping to introduce these products to growing them into the market leaders in these markets today. Prior to Silicon Motion, he worked for Sun Microsystems focusing on UltraSPARC microprocessor projects. Mr. Duann has an MS in Communications Engineering from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.