M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. (MTSI) announced that John Croteau will be joining M/A-COM Tech as its president, effective October 1, 2012, and will be reporting to Charles Bland, its CEO. As president, Croteau will assume responsibility for world-wide sales, operations, R&D, marketing and business unit management.

Croteau, 51, joins M/A-COM Tech with nearly 30 years of global semiconductor experience in various operational and management positions. Most recently, he served as senior vice president and general manager of the High Performance RF Business of NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXPI).

For three of those years, Croteau also served as senior vice president and general manager of NXP's Power & Lighting business line. Prior to joining NXP, Croteau held numerous product management positions at Analog Devices, Inc., as general manager and product line director for the company's Convergent Platforms and Services Group as well as the Integrated Audio Group and Computer Segment.