Karl Chicca COO, Bridgelux

Bridgelux Inc., developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies and solutions, announced the addition of Karl Chicca as the company’s chief operating officer.

To his role as COO, Mr. Chicca brings extensive experience in building and scaling multinational Manufacturing and Supply Chain operations in the semiconductor and storage industries. Mr. Chicca will be responsible for Bridgelux’s global Manufacturing, Materials, Supply Chain, Logistics, Product and Process Engineering, and Supplier and Customer Quality operations.

"Karl brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Bridgelux at a time of significant growth," said Bill Watkins, Bridgelux CEO. "As we continue to scale our operations to meet the growing demands of the rapidly transforming lighting industry, Karl’s successful track record of building and leading world-class operations and teams will be instrumental to our success."

Mr. Chicca comes to Bridgelux with more than 25 years of extensive experience and a successful track record in global Operations. As a former senior vice president of Global Materials for Seagate Technology, the world’s leading manufacturer of hard disk drives and storage solutions, he was responsible for building Seagate’s strategic supplier partnership program and leading the company’s world-class supply chain efforts. As Seagate’s senior vice president and general manager for the Personal Computing Business Unit, he was responsible for 75% of the company’s unit shipments. Prior to joining Seagate, Mr. Chicca served as senior vice president of Operations at 3dfx Interactive where he helped to grow the company from initial corporate revenue shipments to revenues exceeding $125 Million per quarter. He also served as vice president of global Materials at Maxtor Corporation.