Five Minutes With?Alex Lidow, CEO, Efficient Power Conversion
February 15, 2017
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Five Minutes With…Alex Lidow, CEO, Efficient Power Conversion
Alex Lidow was the longtime CEO of International Rectifier. He now leads a smaller company, Efficient Power Conversions. I started this week’s Five Minutes with… discussion by asking Alex about the differences between running a large company verses running a small company. Then we got down to the nuts and bolts and talked about the company’s Gallium-Nitride technology, which is suited for a host of leading-edge applications. If you’re not following it, you should.
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