Albert Climent is the managing director of the Silicon Valley office located in San Mateo and is a member of the firm’s Technology, Communications & Media Practice. He brings an extensive and functionally broad international background in the storage and semiconductor industries. With more than 20 years of experience in leading worldwide teams, Albert has held management positions with international responsibility in sales, marketing, engineering, product management, quality, materials and manufacturing operations.
Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Albert was a senior vice president of worldwide sales, service and support at Celerity, a TPG company. Previously, at Read-Rite/Western Digital, Albert held positions of vice president and general manager of the company’s largest business unit as well as the corporate marketing function. Albert also has held management positions in engineering, product management and manufacturing operations at Amdahl Corporation/Fujitsu. In addition, he has developed and led several successful entrepreneurial ventures.
Albert’s search work has focused on domestic and international executive and board assignments in leading technology companies such as Intel, Nvidia, Silicon Image, Seagate/Maxtor, Hitachi, Veeco, Synopsys, Cymer, Affymetrix, BEA, JDSU, Kodak and First Solar to name a few. Albert’s functional expertise is broad and includes CEOs, CFOs, COO’s, general managers, sales, marketing, operations, human resources and engineering. Albert has served as a firm Quality Champion and is a winner of the firm’s Lou Rieger Quality award.
Albert earned his bachelor of science degree in engineering from California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo and holds a master’s degree in business administration from St. Mary’s College. Albert is fluent in English and Spanish.