Francesco Contu

Avnet Silica

Francesco Contu is High Speed and RF System solution Expert for EMEA at Avnet Silica in Milan, Italy.

He has +30 years of experience, his career started at Alcatel (now Nokia) where he architected and designed several mixed signals boards with various interfaces including backplanes, copper and optical links.

He then joined Xilinx where he worked as High Speed IO and then RF Specialist for almost 20 years, before joining Avnet Silica.

He holds a Master in Electronic Engineering form the “Politecnico di Milano” University.