David Miller, director of corporate communications for defunct solar company Solyndra, has landed at semiconductor maker LSI Corp. as senior director of corporate positioning and PR.
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Miller was director of worldwide PR in 10 years at Applied Materials before joining Solyndra in early 2010. He was the company's primary spokesman through its meteoric rise and fall, from President Obama's May 2010 visit to its highly publicized demise in August 2011. Soylndra ceased operations on Sept. 1. He joined LSI in November.
In a nightmare scenario for any PR pro, Politico published a series of Miller's emails with White House officials dubbing the company from "media-fixated."
Miller's previous posts included Spectra Physics (director of comms.) and Etec Systems (director, marketing comms.).
Publicly traded LSI, based in Milpitas, Calif., had third quarter revenues of $546.9M.
Ellen Morton, marketing communications and events manager at Solyndra, moved to eBay in December as senior communications manager.
Glover Park Group helped Solyndra with its PR during 2011.