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Who would MOST likely be;

leopard

Sep 23, 2014 10:01AM

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Re: Who would MOST likely be; / Is this your Tom Rigoli???

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Who would MOST likely be;

leopard

posted on Sep 23, 2014 11:21AM

Your link showed a contact and phone number for Tom Rigoli who is associated with the TPL group. This is the profile of a Tom Rigoli. Sounds like he may be the one in your link. If so what does this tell us? I searched his name as being connected with TPL and could not find anything. Yet it could be a new association and not in the systems yet. If this guy is the one with TPL it could be a positive??? Someone with a Linked In account might be able to see and relay more...... Seems the guy is more about PR. If you read the paragraph just before his list of skills and hear how he got started in the fifties with his matress you might laugh! Then read his skills and see semiconductors???

Tom Rigoli

HiTek Growth Strategies

San Francisco Bay Area Public Relations and Communications

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Tom Rigoli's Overview

Current

Consultant/Owner at HiTek Growth Strategies

Past

VP Corporate Communications at Cirrus Logic
President/CEO at Rigoli Communications
Principal at Rigoli Pamphilon Demeter

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Education

Syracuse University

Connections

299 connections

Websites

Tom Rigoli's Summary

Tom has been advising Silicon Valley companies for more than three decades. Prior to reactivating his consultancy in 2001, he served as VP of Corporate Communications for Cirrus Logic Inc. During his 7-year tenure with this Silicon Valley chip maker, he worked closely with CEO and co-founder Mike Hackworth as sales grew from about $400 million to more than $1 billion.

Prior to joining the Cirrus executive team in 1994, Tom was a principal in a full-service marketing and communications agency for more than 20 years. At its peak, the premier Silicon Valley agency employed a staff of 21. Notable clients included Applied Materials, Lam Research, Novell, SEMI, Signetics (now Philips Semiconductors), Siliconix (now Vishay Siliconix), Fujitsu Semiconductor, OKI Semiconductor, Wind River and the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency.

Tom began building his reputation as a communications expert early in his career when he joined EDN magazine in 1969 as its first San Francisco editor. During his two years with this monthly magazine for electronic designers, he chronicled the early high-tech developments in the South Bay before it became known as Silicon Valley. He subsequently served one year with Quantum Science analyzing high-tech markets for the financial community. Prior to joining EDN, Tom served, six years with GTE Sylvania, where he worked as an electronic field engineer on Top Secret military programs in the US and overseas.

Tom attended Syracuse University on a full-tuition scholarship that he won in New York state-wide competition with other top students. He completed studies for two undergraduate degrees in five years, earning a BSEE and an AB in Math.

Specialties: Strategic marketing and communications counsel based on 35+ years working with Silicon Valley companies, both large and small. Superb writing skills across all communications channels.

Tom Rigoli's Experience

Consultant/Owner

HiTek Growth Strategies

April 2001 – Present (13 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay Area

> Advise top executives on strategic communications encompassing corporate/product positioning and messaging as well as major product launches and pivotal corporate/financial announcements.

> Insightful strategic planning backed by superb writing skills for both external and internal communications.

> Highly responsive execution 24/7 in support of companies around the globe.

> Serving as business advisor to Dr. David K. Lam, Chairman of Multibeam Corporation, developer of complementary e-beam technologies to extend optical lithography at advanced processing nodes. For more details, visit www.multibeamcorp.com.

VP Corporate Communications

Cirrus Logic

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CRUS; Semiconductors industry

1994 – 2001 (7 years)

Worked closely with the late CEO and co-founder, Mike Hackworth, in managing external and internal communications worldwide, and serving as spokesperson for the company.

President/CEO

Rigoli Communications

1991 – 1994 (3 years)

Formulated and drove strategic communications programs for high-tech companies

Principal

Rigoli Pamphilon Demeter

1985 – 1991 (6 years)

Provided full-service advertising and public relations services to high-tech companies

Principal

Cortani Brown Rigoli

1977 – 1984 (7 years)

Provided full-service advertising and public relations services to high-tech companies.

Tom Rigoli's Volunteer Experience & Causes

- Reader
  
  LEARNING ALLY -- formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D)
  - Education
  October 2002 – present (12 years)
  
  Weekly recording of books for children, adults and wounded warriors who have difficulty with sight-reading due to blindness, dyslexia, injury or different learning patterns.
- Causes I care about:
  - Economic Empowerment
  - Education
  - Science and Technology
- Organizations I support:
  - The Heritage Foundation

Tom Rigoli's Publications

TAP Times
- Online
- April 15, 2013
Authors: Tom Rigoli

Semiconductor industry publication focusing on assembly and packaging.
Stone Canoe
- Syracuse, NY
- January 28, 2013
Authors: Tom Rigoli

Award winning essay/memoir titled, "Experiencing Silicon Valley."

Tom Rigoli's Honors and Awards

2013 LC Smith Prize for Engineering and Technology Writing

"Stone Canoe" published annually by Syracuse University
- January 2013
Intro from award-winning memoir, "Experiencing Silicon Valley"

"My romance with electronics took root when I was growing up in Jamestown, New York, in the 1950s. My fascination with radio led me to build my first crystal set using my mattress bed-spring as an antenna. It seemed like magic to manipulate a "cat's whisker" atop a small grayish-white rocky clump of germanium and voilà (!), out of...more