Mark Allison is Vice President of Strategic Marketing for Verigy. In this role he is responsible for strategic planning, corporate development, marketing communications, corporate marketing and market research for the company. He joined Verigy in 2006 as Senior Director of Marketing with responsibility for product marketing, business development, learning products and applications for the Memory Test business.

Mr. Allison brings more than 30 years of progressive semiconductor test industry experience to his role at Verigy, through management positions in engineering, applications, sales and marketing at Advantest, Electroglas, Credence, IMS, Megatest, Micron Technology and Texas Instruments. At TI, Mr. Allison co-developed a method for parallel testing of DRAM's, for which a patent was awarded in 1987.

He holds a BSEE from the University of Notre Dame.