David E. Orton (born 1955) is an American engineering executive and the CEO of GEO Semiconductor Inc.
Orton earned a BS in mathematics and economics atWake Forest University, and a MS in electrical engineering fromDuke University. He worked in the graphics and semiconductor industry as an engineer atBell Laboratories in 1979 to 1983 and thenGeneral Electric through December 1988. He joinedSilicon Graphics (SGI) in 1990, and was senior vice president of visual computing and advanced systems through 1999.[1] In 1996 SGI boughtCray Research and Orton had to deal with merging the companies' overlapping technologies.[2]
Orton joinedATI Technologies as a result of an acquisition ofArtX in April 2000, where he was president and CEO.[3][4] ATI posted losses after thedot-com bubble collapsed, although losses were reduced by June 2001.[5]He was named CEO of ATI in March 2004.[6]Though ATI's principal location was inMarkham, Ontario,Canada, Orton spent a portion of his time inCalifornia where he resided.[citation needed]
After the announced merger ofAdvanced Micro Devices (AMD) with ATI on July 24, 2006, as ATI Technologies became a subsidiary of AMD, Orton became an executive vice-president of AMD, reporting to AMDCEOHector Ruiz andCOODirk Meyer. On July 10, 2007, AMD announced the resignation of Orton as executive vice president.[7] One trade journalist rated Orton as the top of the "CEOs that went in 2007".[8]
From 2007 to 2009, he was CEO of the startup DSM Solutions.[9] On July 15, 2009, Orton became the CEO ofAptina, a privately held image sensor company located inSan Jose, California.[1] He left Aptina in September 2012.[10] He was on the board of directors of SuVolta.[9][11]
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