November 6, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (NADAQ: ACTS) has promoted Niccolo Chen, its chief strategy officer and general manager, to the position of chief executive officer. He replaces Nan-Horng Yeh, who is stepping down from this position to pursue personal interests. Yeh will remain an Actions board member.

Additionally, the board appointed Robin Pan as an independent director.

Chen joined Actions in 2007 as general manager and was promoted to chief strategy officer earlier this year. Prior to working at Actions, Chen held a number of technical positions at Realtek Semiconductor from 1992 through 2006, recently serving as chief technology officer and executive vice president of Realtek’s China subsidiary, Realsil.

Zhuhai, China-based Actions Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor firm that provides mixed-signal and multimedia SoC solutions for portable consumer electronics.

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