Tuesday, Altera Corp. (ALTR) appointed Michael Nevens to its board. Nevens spent 22 years at McKinsey & Co. in various management positions including managing partner of the Global Technology Practice.
Altera Corp. designs, manufactures, and markets programmable logic devices, HardCopy application-specific integrated circuit devices, pre-defined design building blocks, and associated development tools.
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