Jim Peterson
CO-FOUNDER, PETERSON CAPITAL GROUP
Longtime Microsemi Corp. CEO, left May 2018 after $10B sale … took 6% Lantronix stake, led by Jeff Benck (see entry) … Microsemi 4th-largest OC chipmaker; 5K workers, 250 in OC … clients Boeing, Cisco … $1.8B revenue, $180M net income before sale … co. backed UCI sports, electrical engineering … took top slot, 2000, bought 27 firms during tenure … Business Journal OC 50
