Tom Rigoli

HiTek Growth Strategies

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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

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

Tom Rigoli's Skills & Expertise

1. Public Relations
2. Corporate Communications
3. Press Releases
4. Advertising
5. Business Strategy
6. Strategic Planning
7. Mixed Signal
8. Change Management
9. Electronics
10. Semiconductors
11. CMOS
12. Embedded Systems
13. Strategic Communications
14. Management
15. Strategy
16. Marketing
17. Product Launch
18. Product Marketing
19. Internal Communications
20. Start-ups

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Tom Rigoli's Education

Tom Rigoli's Additional Information

• Blog
• Personal Website

Won full tuition scholarship to Syracuse University in NY statewide competition

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