Founder Profile
Ray Capece
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Ray Capece held an incredibly rigorous, deeply strategic background in advanced technical marketing and complex semiconductor sales. Operating as a fiercely capable commercial executive in the early microprocessor industry, this incredibly intense foundation in aggressive product distribution provided the exact commercial leverage required to successfully launch the massive Lattice Semiconductor corporation.
Founding Story
Ray Capece was a highly dynamic technology executive and the profoundly influential operational co-founder fundamentally responsible for driving the highly aggressive early market penetration of the massive Lattice Semiconductor corporation. Operating alongside Winningstad and Sud in 1983, Capece aggressively formulated the incredibly complex product marketing strategies required to actually sell their revolutionary reprogrammable chips to massive global hardware manufacturers. By relentlessly navigating incredibly complex sales cycles and fiercely establishing massive distribution networks, he completely ensured Lattice's highly advanced silicon successfully reached mass commercial adoption. His absolutely rigorous operational execution and intense dedication to brand positioning completely secured the foundational revenue streams required to permanently establish Lattice as an absolute multi-billion dollar titan in the global technology sector.