People: Spansion Inc (CODE.N)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Raymond Bingham	67	2010	Independent Chairman of the Board
John Kispert	49	2010	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Randy Furr	57	2009	Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Glenda Dorchak	56	2012	Executive Vice President, General Manager - Global Business
Scot Griffin	44	2011	Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Jay Legenhausen	45	2011	Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales
Keith Barnes	61	2011	Director
Hans Geyer	61	2010	Independent Director
William Mitchell	69	2011	Independent Director
Clifton Weatherford		2010	Independent Director
Ajay Bhatia			Investor Relations Officer

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Biographies

Name	Description
Raymond Bingham	Mr. Raymond Bingham is an Independent Chairman of the Board of Spansion Inc. Mr. Bingham is the Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Beginning on March 26, 2012, Mr. Bingham will no longer Chair the Compensation Committee but will continue to serve as a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Bingham has served as an Advisory Director of General Atlantic LLC, a global private equity firm, since January 2010 and a Managing Director from November 2006 to December 2009. From August 2005 to October 2006, Mr. Bingham was a self-employed private investor. He was Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a supplier of electronic design automation software and services, from May 2004 to July 2005 and served as a director of Cadence from November 1997 to July 2005. Prior to being Executive Chairman, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadence from April 1999 to May 2004 and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from April 1993 to April 1999. He has served as a director and as a member of the Finance and Audit Committee of Oracle Corporation, a database software company, since November 2002, and has served as a member and Chairman of its Committee on Independence Issues since July 2003 and as a member and Chairman of its Governance Committee since August 2005. Mr. Bingham is also a director and Chairman of the board at Flextronics International Ltd., an electronics manufacturing services provider, STMicroelectronics N.V., a semiconductor manufacturing company, Dice Holdings, Inc., a supplier of specialized websites for professional communities and Fusion-io, a provider of enterprise solid-state technology and high performance I/O solutions. Mr. Bingham received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics (with Honors) from Weber State University.
John Kispert	Mr. John H. Kispert is President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Spansion, Inc. Mr. Kispert previously served as a Class A Director from February 2009 to May 2010. Mr. Kispert has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Spansion since February 2009. Mr. Kispert also served as Interim Chief Financial Officer from April 29, 2009 through May 19, 2009. From 1995 through January 2009, Mr. Kispert served in a number of finance and operational roles at KLA-Tencor, a supplier of semiconductor manufacturing process control and yield management solutions, including serving as President and Chief Operations Officer from January 2006 to January 2009 and also serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from March 2000 to December 2005. In 2004, Mr. Kispert also assumed responsibility for Global Service Business, Information Technology and Human Resources at KLA-Tencor. Prior to KLA-Tencor, Mr. Kispert held several senior management positions with IBM. Mr. Kispert has served as a director of Extreme Networks, Inc., a network hardware company, since May 2009. Mr. Kispert holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Grinnell College.
Randy Furr	Mr. Randy W. Furr is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Spansion Inc since June 25, 2009. Furr has 30 years of experience in the technology sector and is an experienced financial and operations executive. Most recently, Mr. Furr held senior executive positions as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Magellan Navigation, Inc. from August 2008 to June 2009, and as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Aliph, a consumer Bluetooth telephony device company, from April 2008 to August 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Furr was at Adobe Systems, Inc., where he served as Senior Vice President, Business Process Improvement from May 2007 to January 2008, as Senior Vice President and Interim Chief Information Officer from November 2006 to May 2007, and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from May 2006 to November 2006. Before joining Adobe Systems, Inc., Mr. Furr spent 13 years at Sanmina-SCI Corporation, an electronics manufacturing services provider, where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer from 1996 to 2005 and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1992 to 1996. Mr. Furr served as a director of Sanmina-SCI Corporation from 1998 until 2005. Mr. Furr holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Oklahoma and is a certified public accountant.
Glenda Dorchak	Ms. Glenda M. Dorchak has been appointed as Executive Vice President, General Manager - Global Business of Spansion Inc., effective May 2, 2012. Dorchak is corporate strategy, executive management and marketing for embedded markets. Most recently, she held CEO positions at VirtualLogix and Intrinsyc Software. She spent five years at Intel in vice president and general management positions of the Communications Group, Broadband Products and the Consumer Electronics Group. Dorchak also held various sales, marketing, product management and finance roles at IBM, and is currently a board member of Mellanox Technologies.
Scot Griffin	Mr. Scot A. Griffin is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Spansion Inc. He is responsible for overseeing all legal activities, including commercial contract negotiation, litigation, corporate governance and securities compliance. Before joining Spansion, Mr. Griffin operated a consulting firm specializing in assisting clients to identify and build technology and intellectual property assets since May 2009. From November 2002 until 2009, Mr. Griffin held various senior executive positions at Tessera Technologies, Inc., most recently as Executive Vice President, Microelectronics. He also served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Tessera from November 2006 to May 2008. Before joining Tessera, Mr. Griffin was Group IP Counsel and IP Attorney at Intel Corporation from February 2000 to November 2002. Mr. Griffin was in the private practice of law from 1993 to 2000. Mr. Griffin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Jay Legenhausen	Mr. Jay A. Legenhausen has been appointed as Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales of Spansion Inc. effective June 2011. Mr. Legenhausen has over 20 years of sales experience in the semiconductor industry. Most recently, Mr. Legenhausen was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Actel, which became a division of Microsemi in 2010, since October 2007. Mr. Legenhausen served in various sales and engineering positions from 1990 to 2007 at Cypress Semiconductor, most recently as Vice President of Sales, Americas. Mr. Legenhausen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters of Business Administration degree from New York University.
Keith Barnes	Mr. Keith L. Barnes has been appointed as Director of Spansion Inc. He has served as a Class I Director since August 11, 2011 and shall hold office for an initial term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2014. Mr. Barnes serves on the Compensation Committee and beginning on March 26, 2012, Mr. Barnes will serve as Chair of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Barnes was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Verigy Ltd., a company that designs, manufactures, sells, and services advanced test systems and solutions for the semiconductor industry, from 2006 until he retired in July 2011. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc. (IMS), a manufacturer of engineering test stations and test software, from 1995 until 2001, and also as Chairman of the Board of Directors of IMS from 1998 through 2001, when it was acquired by Credence Systems Corporation. From 2003 through 2006, Mr. Barnes was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Electroglas, Inc. a provider of advanced wafer probers, device handlers, test floor management software and services for the semiconductor industry. Mr. Barnes currently serves on the Board of directors of JDS Uniphase Corporation and Intermec Inc. From 2004 to 2010, Mr. Barnes served on the board of directors at Cascade Microtech. Mr. Barnes was recommended as a director by a non-management director.
Hans Geyer	Mr. Hans Geyer is an Independent Director of Spansion Inc. since May 10, 2010. Mr. Geyer is a member of the Audit Committee and served as a member of the Compensation Committee until August 11, 2011. Since December 2006, Mr. Geyer has been a consultant for the private equity industry. Mr. Geyer served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel Corporation’s Storage Group from 2005 until his retirement in December 2006, and as General Manager, Networking and Storage Group from 2004 to 2005. In 1995, Mr. Geyer was elected Vice President of Intel and in 1993, was appointed Vice President of Intel’s Microprocessor Group. Mr. Geyer joined Intel in 1980 and has since held various positions, including general manager of European Operations, general manager of the 386/486 microprocessor division, general manager of the Flash memory group, and general manager of the cellular and application processor group. Prior to joining Intel, Mr. Geyer was involved in hardware and software development for intelligent and point-of-sales terminals at Siemens AG, Germany. He served as a director of Trident Microsystems, Inc. from May 2007 to February 2010. Mr. Geyer studied computer science and mathematics at the Technical University of Munich and holds a master’s degree (Diplom-Informatiker) in Computer Science. He is also an alumnus of INSEAD.
William Mitchell	Mr. William E. Mitchell is an Independent Director of Spansion Inc. He has served as a Class I Director since May 31, 2011 and shall hold office for an initial term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2014. Mr. Mitchell is also a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Mitchell is the managing partner of Sequel Capital Management, LLC, a private equity firm that he founded. Mr. Mitchell served as the chairman of the board of directors of Arrow Electronics, Inc. from May 2006 until December 2009, and also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Arrow Electronics, Inc. from February 2003 to May 1, 2009. Prior to that, Mr. Mitchell was Executive Vice President of Solectron Global Services from 1999 to 2003 and was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sequel, Inc. from 1995 to 1999 until its acquisition by Solectron. Mr. Mitchell serves on the board of directors of Brown-Forman Corporation, Humana Inc. and Rogers Corporation. Mr. Mitchell served on the board of directors of National Semiconductor until it was acquired by Texas Instruments in 2011. Mr. Mitchell received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Princeton University and his master’s degree in engineering from the University of Michigan.
Clifton Weatherford	Mr. Clifton Thomas Weatherford is an Independent Director of Spansion Inc. He has served as a Class II Director since May 10, 2010. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee and also serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Weatherford served as Executive Vice President and Chief Finance Officer at Business Objects, a provider of business intelligence software, from September 1997 until his retirement in January 2003. Mr. Weatherford brings over 37 years in global technology experience financial positions at Business Objects, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services, Logitech, Texas Instruments, Schlumberger and Tandem Computers. Mr. Weatherford is a director at several public companies, including Tesco Corporation, an oil and gas drilling industry services company, Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of high-bandwidth computer hardware, and Guidewire Software, Inc., a provider of core system software to property/casualty insurers, as well as several private companies. Mr. Weatherford also served on the Board of Directors of Saba Software from 2003 to 2008, InfoGroup from 2007 to 2010, Synplicity from 2003 to 2008, Advanced Analogic Technologies from 2004 to 2011 and SMART Modular Technologies from 2005 to 2011. Mr. Weatherford holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Houston in Texas.
Ajay Bhatia

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Raymond Bingham	--
John Kispert	8,664,490
Randy Furr	3,799,650
Glenda Dorchak	--
Scot Griffin	2,763,720
Jay Legenhausen	1,210,150
Keith Barnes	--
Hans Geyer	--
William Mitchell	--
Clifton Weatherford	--
Ajay Bhatia	--

As Of 24 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Raymond Bingham	0	0
John Kispert	0	0
Randy Furr	80,757	752,853
Glenda Dorchak	0	0
Scot Griffin	0	0
Jay Legenhausen	0	0
Keith Barnes	0	0
Hans Geyer	0	0
William Mitchell	0	0
Clifton Weatherford	0	0
Ajay Bhatia	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
WEATHERFORD CLIFTON THOMAS	50,000	$12.70
WEATHERFORD CLIFTON THOMAS	50,000	$10.51
BARNES KEITH L	563	$11.86
WEATHERFORD CLIFTON THOMAS	27,000	$0.00
GEYER HANS	13,000	$0.00
MITCHELL WILLIAM E	13,000	$0.00
BINGHAM HEBER RAYMOND	33,000	$0.00
SHAH AJAY B	13,000	$0.00
BARNES KEITH L	27,000	$0.00
MERCADANTE PAUL	20,000	$0.00
FURR RANDY WILBURN	17,985	$12.50
BARNES KEITH L	563	$11.64
KISPERT JOHN H	72,218	$11.33
FURR RANDY WILBURN	38,118	$11.27
KISPERT JOHN H	78,814	$11.23
KISPERT JOHN H	47,552	$11.60
FURR RANDY WILBURN	46,882	$11.60
KISPERT JOHN H	140,327	$0.00
KISPERT JOHN H	100,000	$0.00
FURR RANDY WILBURN	17,875	$0.00
LEGENHAUSEN JAY A	10,832	$0.00
LEGENHAUSEN JAY A	10,000	$11.50
FURR RANDY WILBURN	30,555	$0.00
LEGENHAUSEN JAY A	6,500	$0.00
FURR RANDY WILBURN	70,163	$0.00

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