Executive Officers
Executive officers of the Corporation (designated as our “corporate officers” in accordance with our By-Laws) are appointed annually by the Board and hold office until the first meeting of the Board following the next annual meeting of Stockholders and until their successors are elected and qualified, or until their earlier death, resignation, or removal. The following persons are the Corporation’s executive officers:
Patrizio Vinciarelli, Ph.D., 76, Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Vinciarelli’s background and experience is contained in the section of this Proxy Statement entitled “Information Regarding Nominees and Qualifications.”
Sean Crilly, 65, Corporate Vice President, Engineering, Power Systems since June 2015. From December 2012 to May 2015, Mr. Crilly served as Vice President, Engineering, VI Chip Corporation (“VI Chip”). From 2006 to 2012, Mr. Crilly held the position of Director of Sustaining Engineering, and, from 2000 to 2006, the position of Manager, Test Engineering. Previously, Mr. Crilly held the positions of Project Manager, from 1996 to 2000, and Senior Test Engineer, from 1993 to 1996. Prior to joining the Corporation in 1993, Mr. Crilly was Vice President of Applications Engineering at Intepro Systems, specializing in power electronics test equipment. Earlier, he was employed in engineering roles at Schaffner and Nixdorf Computer. Mr. Crilly received a B.Eng. in Electronics from the Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland.
Philip D. Davies, 63, Corporate Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing. Mr. Davies’s background and experience is contained in the section of this Proxy Statement entitled “Information Regarding Nominees and Qualifications.”
Alvaro Doyle, 55, Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer since September 2020. From 2017 to 2020, Mr. Doyle served as Vice President of Application Development and Business Analytics, also assuming the role of Chief Compliance Officer in 2020. Over the course of his career at Vicor starting in 1998, he has held various leadership roles including Director of Application Development, Senior Technical Manager, Manager of Manufacturing Systems, Principal Software Engineer, and Senior Software Engineer. Prior to Vicor, Mr. Doyle worked as a software engineer at the UMass Medical School’s PeopleSoft integration group. Mr. Doyle received a B.S. in Information Systems Management from the University of San Francisco.
Quentin A. Fendelet, 51, Corporate Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer since March 2022. Prior to joining Vicor, Mr. Fendelet served as a Senior Financial Consultant with Fenway Consulting Group and CBIZ Private Equity Advisory, transaction and transformation solutions partners for middle-market private equity firms, from October 2020 to February 2022. Prior to his Senior Financial Consulting roles, Mr. Fendelet served as Vice President Controller of Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc., an environmental services company, from November 2015 to March 2020. Prior to Wheelabrator, Mr. Fendelet served as Vice President of Finance of Courier Corporation, a publicly traded media company, from April 2014 to June 2015. In his previous positions, Mr. Fendelet was responsible for overseeing finance and accounting operations, systems implementations and guiding strategic financial and business decisions. Mr. Fendelet holds a Bachelor of Science – Accounting from Merrimack College and a Master of Business Administration from Bentley University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant.
Robert Gendron, 58, Corporate Vice President, Product Management and Development since September 2021. From 2017 to September 2021, Mr. Gendron served as Corporate Vice President, Product Marketing and Technical Resources. From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Gendron served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for the Picor Corporation (“Picor”) and VI Chip subsidiaries of the Corporation. From 2011 to 2014, he served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Picor. Prior to joining Picor, Mr. Gendron held senior marketing and sales roles at various semiconductor companies including Analog Devices, STMicroelectronics, Fairchild Semiconductor, International Rectifier, and Volterra. Mr. Gendron also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for the University of New Hampshire Department of Electrical and
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