Stephen Allen - VP Sales

Stephen Allen joined Powervation as vice president of global sales in October 2009.

He brings more than 25 years of international sales, marketing and business development experience in the power-conversion field.

He came to Powervation from National Semiconductor’s Advanced Power Technology Group, where he served as director of strategic business development and marketing, and promoted the adoption of leading-edge adaptive voltage scaling technology by top ASIC, SoC and FPGA companies.

Prior to National Semiconductor, Allen was vice president, worldwide sales at Enpirion, Inc. where he built the company’s power-conversion business from start-up. Before that, he held executive sales, marketing and business development positions at Power-One (also Melcher AG), including vice president of sales for Asia and vice president of sales and marketing for North Europe.

Allen holds an MBA degree from Bournemouth University in the UK. He studied electrical and electronic engineering at Portsmouth University, also in the UK.