Data I/O Corp. announced the election of Anthony Ambrose as President effective October 25, 2012, and as Chief Executive Officer effective November 14, 2012. He was also appointed to the Board of Directors of Data I/O Corporation on October 25, 2012.

He replaces Frederick R. Hume, who is retiring and has resigned as a Director effective October 25, 2012. Anthony has a track record of successfully developing products and building businesses worldwide. Prior to Data I/O, Anthony was Owner and Principal of Cedar Mill Partners, LLC.

Until 2011, he was Vice President and General Manager at RadiSys Corporation where he led three product divisions and worldwide engineering. At RadiSys, he established the telecom platform business and grew it to over $125 million in annual revenues. Until 2007, Anthony was general manager and held several other progressively responsible positions at Intel Corporation, where he led development and marketing of standards based telecommunications platforms, and grew the industry standard server business to over $1 billion in revenues.