Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (LSCC)

Ford Tamer has been president and chief executive since September 2024 and sits on the board. He arrived from private equity, as a senior operating partner of Francisco Partners, which he joined in September 2022, and before that ran Inphi Corporation as president, chief executive and a director from February 2012 to April 2021, when Marvell Technology bought it. Earlier he was chief executive of Telegent Systems from June 2010 to August 2011, a partner at Khosla Ventures from September 2007 to April 2010, and a senior vice president and general manager at Broadcom Corporation from June 2002 to September 2007. He also sits on the boards of the Semiconductor Industry Association and the Global Semiconductor Association. 12

Most of the rest of the leadership is recent too. Lorenzo Flores became chief financial officer in February 2025, from Intel Foundry, where he had been finance chief since April 2024, and before that was vice chairman of KIOXIA Holdings Corporation and, from May 2016 to November 2019, finance chief of Xilinx. Erhaan Shaikh, who joined in October 2020 from Fungible and earlier ran a division of Intel's programmable solutions group, heads worldwide sales. Pravin Desale has run research and development since September 2023, after leading engineering at Semtech and Sierra Wireless. Tracy Feanny has been general counsel since November 2021, from National Instruments. The longest serving of them is Esam Elashmawi, chief strategy and marketing officer since September 2018, who was interim chief executive for part of 2024 before returning to that post. Tonya Stevens, chief accounting officer since May 2019 and interim finance chief from October 2024 until February 2025, submitted her resignation in March 2026. 3456789

The board is chaired by D. Jeffrey Richardson, a director since December 2014 and chair since May 2018, who was chief operating officer of LSI Corporation until Avago Technologies bought it in May 2014. Its longest serving member is Mark Jensen, on the board since June 2013, a retired Deloitte and Touche audit executive for whom the board waived its own retirement age so he could stand again. Most of the others come from the industry itself: Douglas Bettinger, finance chief of Lam Research; John Forsyth, chief executive of Cirrus Logic; James Lederer, formerly an executive of Qualcomm Technologies; and Elizabeth Schwarting, who spent her career in automotive electronics. On the record this site holds, thirty four people have filed insider reports for the company and sixteen of them filed in the last fifteen months. 1011121314151617

By headcount this is a small company: 1,174 employees worldwide at the end of the year. Its research and development runs out of seven places, Hillsboro in Oregon, where the company is based, and San Jose in California, Montreal, Shanghai, Metro Manila, Pune and Penang. The annual report gives no breakdown of the workforce by function or by country. 181920