Applied Micro Circuits CFO Douglas Ahrens Leaving

(RTTNews) - Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) said Friday that its Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Douglas Ahrens, will resign from the company, effective August 21, in order to pursue a CFO role with a privately-held company in the software industry.

AppliedMicro has appointed Karen Rogge to serve as interim CFO commencing August 24. Ms. Rogge has been a senior financial and operations executive at industry-leading technology companies, as well as emerging companies, for the past four decades.

The company said it has retained a search firm and that it is in the process of identifying a permanent successor.