Primary Job Title Board of Directors Primary Organization 
Headwaters
Location Los Gatos, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Female
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Current Directorships and professional positions
Abroad: Director, Member of the Audit Committee of Semtech Corporation*, Director, Member of the Compensation
Committee, Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of Headwater Inc*.
Directorships over the last 5 years
Abroad: President, CEO and Director of Trident Micro
Systems*
Career
Summers received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ecole Polytechnique Feminine (France), an M.S.
degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.B.A. degree from Thomson
CSF (France).
Summers has worked in the high tech industry for 38 years, where she held a variety of
management positions in research and development, operations, and marketing while residing both in Europe and the
U.S. She has 18 years of general management experience in the technology industry having held a variety of senior
positions in France in China and in the Unites States of America. Summers has held senior positions at Bull and
Thomson.
Between 1999 and 2001 Summers held several positions at Cisco and focused on growth creation,
including Group Vice-President of Public Access Managed Network Services, and Vice-President of Internet Access
Group.
From 2003 to 2007, Summers was also Executive Vice-President of Spansion. Summers was most
recently CEO of Trident Microsystems, where she was responsible for turning around and restructuring the company.
Summers is currently a member of the boards of Semtech Corp and Headwaters.
Expertise: 38 years in the high tech industry sector
