IRVINE, Calif., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- WiSpry, Inc., the fabless semiconductor company developing low-cost, high-performance radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical systems (RF-MEMS) tunable components and modules for the wireless industry, today announced that Russell Garcia has been named president and chief executive officer. Jeffrey Hilbert, the company's former president, chief executive officer and co-founder, will remain on the board and with the company in the role of executive vice president of Development.

"Russ Garcia has an established, well-deserved reputation as a semiconductor industry leader with proven expertise in driving operations and successfully developing and executing corporate business strategy," said Bart Schachter, board chairman of WiSpry. "His expertise in developing a company from an R&D operation to delivering full-featured products into the cellular phone handset market will be crucial."

"It is extremely exciting for me to join the team here at WiSpry. The RF-MEMs technology that the WiSpry team has developed is uniquely differentiated and will prove to create a substantial discontinuity in portable, multi-band radio applications that are rapidly becoming more prevalent in the market," said Russ Garcia. "I have been quite impressed with the team and its accomplishments, as well as the strong and committed investors which the company has attracted. We will be moving forward quickly to productize our technology, giving us the ability to leverage our key cellular engagements, driving WiSpry into the rapid growth phase of its development and revenue generation."

Garcia brings over 20 years experience in the semiconductor industry. As vice president of Marketing for Silicon Systems/Texas Instruments Storage Products, he led the development of Silicon Systems' merger and acquisitions/integration strategy, product planning, business development and partnership strategy, culminating in the acquisition of Silicon Systems by Texas Instruments. He then led and executed the integration of product, customer and organizational strategies for Texas Instruments Storage Products Group. During his 13 year tenure, he set the vision and strategy for Marketing and business development efforts to drive growth transitions from $50 million to greater than $1 billion.

Most recently, he served as president and CEO of u-Nav Microelectronics, a venture-backed fabless GPS semiconductor company. In this role, he developed a new entity from a Finland research and development operation to a global semiconductor company that delivered the world's first fully-featured GPS semiconductor device with RF and digital signal processing on a single CMOS monolithic device. Previous roles include technical and management positions at Plessey Semiconductors and Hughes Aircraft Company.

Garcia holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico.

About WiSpry

WiSpry, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., designs and markets RF Silicon integrated circuits, components and modules to radio frequency (RF) system manufacturers of mobile phones, laptops and mobile data communications products. Utilizing the Company's core competency in RF micro-electro- mechanical systems (RF-MEMS) technology, WiSpry creates revolutionary wireless products enabled by the cost-effective integration of RF-MEMS and advanced semiconductor circuitry to create 'System on Chip' MEMS-based RF architectures. WiSpry tunable RF-MEMS devices permit the development of reconfigurable RF front-ends and enable system designers to achieve the architectural innovation required to meet the growing challenges of mobile communications networks. Investors in the company include American River Ventures, Blueprint Ventures, Hotung Capital Management, L Capital Partners, Shepherd Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Sid R. Bass Associates and The Tech Coast Angels.

For more information, visit http://www.wispry.com/.

CONTACT: Lisa Porter of Porter Creative Group, +1-949-752-5891,
lporter@portercreative.com, for WiSpry

Web site: http://www.wispry.com/