CEO of Virgin Mobile USA Joins Flextronics' Board

Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:30pm EDT
 
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SINGAPORE, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Flextronics (Nasdaq: FLEX) today
announced that Daniel H. Schulman, chief executive officer and director of
Virgin Mobile USA, joined the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Schulman was
elected at Flextronics' board meeting today. 

"I am extremely pleased to welcome Dan to the Board. His deep knowledge and
immense experience in the wireless and telecommunications sectors will add
significantly to the executive leadership of our organization," said Mike
McNamara, chief executive officer of Flextronics. "We look forward to his
guidance on key objectives moving forward as we continually enhance the
competitive positioning of segment offerings such as those in infrastructure
and mobile."  

Mr. Schulman joined Virgin Mobile USA as chief executive officer in 2001 with
nearly two decades of telecommunications experience from prior roles with
companies such as AT&T.  Prior to his current position as chief executive
officer and director for Virgin Mobile USA, Mr. Schulman served as the chief
executive officer of Priceline.com, a position he held from June 1999 to May
2001. Prior to joining Priceline, Mr. Schulman served more than 18 years at
AT&T.  Mr. Schulman is also member of the board of directors of Symantec and
the chair of its compensation committee. Mr. Schulman also serves on the board
of trustees of Rutgers University and Autism Speaks. He holds an M.B.A. from
New York University and a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College.

Flextronics also announced that Ajay Shah will retire from the Board at the
Company's 2009 Annual General Meeting. McNamara continued, "We appreciate the
wealth of insight and technology expertise that Ajay has provided Flextronics
and we have been honored to have him on our Board. On behalf of the Board, I
wish him all the best."

About Flextronics 
Headquartered in Singapore (Singapore Reg. No. 199002645H), Flextronics is a
leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on
delivering complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to
automotive, computing, consumer, industrial, infrastructure, medical and
mobile OEMs. With fiscal year 2009 revenues of US$30.9 billion, Flextronics
helps customers design, build, ship, and service electronics products through
a network of facilities in 30 countries on four continents. This global
presence provides design and engineering solutions that are combined with core
electronics manufacturing and logistics services, and vertically integrated
with components technologies, to optimize customer operations by lowering
costs and reducing time to market. For more information, please visit
www.flextronics.com.



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investor_relations@flextronics.com, or Renee Brotherton, Vice President of
Corporate Communications, +1-408-576-7189, renee.brotherton@flextronics.com,
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