Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2015 Winners Edition

FINANCE MONTHLY CFO AWARDS 2015 www.finance-monthly.com 71 Jon Olson is executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) at Xilinx, with responsibility for finance, tax, treasury and investor relations as well as mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he is also responsible for IT. Olson joined the company in 2005, bringing more than 25 years of financial management expertise to his position. Most recently, he served as vice president of Finance and Enterprise Services, Director of Finance at Intel Corp. While at Intel, Olson held a variety of senior financial positions, including: vice president, finance and enterprise services; director of finance; technology and manufacturing group controller; semiconductor products group controller; and system manufacturing group controller. Before that, he worked for four years at General Signal Corp. Olson holds an MBA in Finance from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in accounting from Indiana University. ABOUT JON OLSON Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs and 3D ICs, enabling the next generation of smarter, connected, and differentiated systems and networks. Driven by the industry-wide shifts towards Cloud Computing, SDN/NFV, Video Everywhere, Embedded Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless, Xilinx innovations enable these applications that are both, software defined, yet hardware optimized. Xilinx’s portfolio of software defined and hardware optimized solutions include proven C and IP based design tools that support the development of ‘software defined hardware’, and a new family of software development environments that supports the development of ‘software defined systems’. With this unique combination, Xilinx is addressing the rapidly growing demands for programmability and intelligence with software, while enabling >10X the bandwidth, 1/10th the latency and power, and flexible any-to-any connectivity with optimized hardware. With over 3,500 patents and 60 industry firsts, Xilinx is known for its historic achievements including the introduction of the first FPGA and the inception of the fabless model. Recent innovations have transformed Xilinx from its programmable logic heritage to an ‘All Programmable’ company, including Vivado HLS C based synthesis, three SDx software defined development environments, new Zynq heterogeneous multi-processing SoCs (MPSoCs) and new UltraScale ASIC-class FPGAs and 3D ICs. Xilinx takes pride in supporting its community; both externally and internally. Xilinx has a history of developing programs for its employees and surrounding communities that provide a social impact through outreach, volunteerism, teambuilding and philanthropy. Areas of focus include education, health, arts and social services. Xilinx culture is represented by a pride in leadership, a passion for excellence, and personal growth. FIRM PROFILE Jon Olson Winner Finance Director of Xilinx USA Website: www.xilinx.com