People: Cypress Semiconductor Corp (CY.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Eric Benhamou		2000	Independent Chairman of the Board
Thurman Rodgers	65	1982	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Brad Buss	49	2005	Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President - Finance and Administration
Christopher Seams	49	2005	Executive Vice President - Sales and Marketing
Thomas Surrette	49	2008	Executive Vice President - Human Resources
Sabbas Daniel	49	2006	Executive Vice President - Quality
J. Augusto de Oliveira	48	2012	Executive Vice President, Chief Technical Officer
Hassane El-Khoury	33	2012	Executive Vice President - Programmable Systems Division
Alan Hawse	43	2011	Executive Vice President - Software Development
Paul Keswick	54	1996	Executive Vice President - New Product Development, Engineering, IT
Badri Kothandaraman	40	2011	EVP - Data Communications Division and Executive Director of Cypress India Limited
Dana Nazarian	45	2009	Executive Vice President - Memory Products Division
Minh Pham	53	2012	Executive Vice President - World Wide Manufacturing and Operations
W. Steve Albrecht	66	2003	Independent Director
Lloyd Carney		2005	Independent Director
James Long	70	2000	Independent Director
John McCranie	69	2005	Independent Director
J. Sherman	47	2010	Independent Director
Wilbert van den Hoek	56	2011	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Eric Benhamou	Mr. Eric A. Benhamou is Independent Chairman of Board of Directors of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since 2000. He is former chairman of the board of 3Com Corporation. He served as chief executive officer of Palm, Inc. from October 2001 until October 2003 and chairman until October 2007, and was chief executive officer of 3Com from 1990 until the end of 2000. Mr. Benhamou co-founded Bridge Communications, an early networking pioneer, and was vice president of engineering until its merger with 3Com in 1987. He is also a member of the board of directors of Silicon Valley Bank. He serves on the Stanford University School of Engineering board and is vice chairman of the board of governors of Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He is the chief executive officer of Benhamou Global Ventures, an investment firm he established in 2004. Mr. Benhamou holds a Master of Science degree from Stanford University’s School of Engineering and a Diplôme d’Ingénieur and a doctorate from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, Paris.
Thurman Rodgers	Dr. Thurman J. Rodgers, Ph.D., is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. He sits on the board of directors of Cypress’s internal subsidiaries, AgigA Tech, Inc. and Deca Technologies Inc., as well as Bloom Energy, a privately-held fuel cell company, and until recently, he was on the board of directors of SunPower Corporation, a public company. He was also a Trustee of Dartmouth College, his alma mater. Mr. Rodgers was a Sloan scholar at Dartmouth, where he graduated with a double major in physics and chemistry. He attended Stanford University on a Hertz fellowship, earning a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He managed the MOS memory design group at AMI from 1975 to 1980 before moving to Advanced Micro Devices (“AMD”), where he ran AMD’s static RAM product group until 1982, when he founded Cypress.
Brad Buss	Mr. Brad W. Buss is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President - Finance and Administration of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Prior to joining Cypress, Mr. Buss served as Vice President of Finance at Altera Corporation, a provider of programmable logic solutions. Mr. Buss spent seven years as a finance executive with Wyle Electronics, a provider of high tech services for aerospace, life sciences and information systems, culminating as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Atlas Services division. Mr. Buss was also a member of Cisco Systems’ worldwide sales finance team. In addition, Mr. Buss served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer and Secretary at Zaffire, a developer of optical services networking systems. Mr. Buss currently serves as a board member of certain internal subsidiaries as well as CafePress.com and Tesla Motors, both publicly listed companies.
Christopher Seams	Mr. Christopher A. Seams is Executive Vice President - Sales and Marketing of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since 2005. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Seams was Executive Vice President of Manufacturing and Research and Development. Mr. Seams joined Cypress in 1990 and has held a variety of positions in technical and operational management in manufacturing, development and foundry.
Thomas Surrette	Mr. Thomas Surrette is Executive Vice President - Human Resources of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since September 2008. After working at Philips/Signetics in software, test and product engineering roles, Mr. Surrette joined Cypress in July 1990 and has held a series of engineering, manufacturing and technical management, marketing and product development roles. Mr. Surrette has served as the Business Unit Director for Micropower SRAM and Synchronous SRAM, the Vice President for Non-Volatile Memory and the Sr. Vice President of Worldwide Operations.
Sabbas Daniel	Mr. Sabbas A. Daniel is Executive Vice President - Quality of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since 2006. Prior to his current position, Mr. Daniel has held various management positions responsible for Cypress’s reliability and field quality organizations. Mr. Daniel joined Cypress in 1998. Prior to joining Cypress, he worked at Samsung in Korea as director of Reliability in the System LSI, memory, LCD, and Alpha microprocessor operations.
J. Augusto de Oliveira	Mr. J. Augusto de Oliveira is Executive Vice President, Chief Technical Officer of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since April 19, 2012. Mr. Oliveira has more than 25 years of experience in R&D management and technology strategy for systems-on-chip. From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Oliveira was Chief Architect and Innovation Manager for the consumer business of Philips Semiconductors. Mr. Oliveira joined Cypress in 2007 as Senior Vice President and CTO of Cypress’s memory and data communications divisions. In late 2008, his role was expanded to include all divisions.
Hassane El-Khoury	Mr. Hassane El-Khoury is Executive Vice President - Programmable Systems Division of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. After working as an engineer at Continental Automotive Systems, he joined Cypress’s automotive business unit and expanded the Company’s presence in the Human-Machine Interface and Body Electronics segments of the automotive marketplace. He currently is responsible for Cypress’s PSoC, touch and automotive businesses.
Alan Hawse	Mr. Alan Hawse is Executive Vice President - Software Development of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since October 2011. Mr. Hawse started his career with Cypress in 1991 and held several new product development management and engineering positions that involved electronic design automation, device modeling and new product information systems. Prior to his current position, Mr. Hawse served as Cypress’s Vice President of Information Technology.
Paul Keswick	Mr. Paul D. Keswick is Executive Vice President - New Product Development, Engineering, IT of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since 1996. Prior to his current position, Mr. Keswick has held various management positions, including Vice President and General Manager for various business divisions. Mr. Keswick has been with Cypress since 1986.
Badri Kothandaraman	Mr. Badri Kothandaraman is Executive Vice President - Data Communications Division of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., and Executive Director of Cypress India Limited., since November 2011. He started his career with Cypress in 1995 and was named Executive Vice President of the Data Communications Division in November 2011. In addition to managing DCD, Mr. Kothandaraman also serves as the Executive Director of Cypress Semiconductor Technology India Private Limited. Prior to assuming his current positions, Mr. Kothandaraman held various management roles in memory design, including serving as the Vice President of the Asynchronous, Specialty Memory, Clocks and Non-volatile products business units.
Dana Nazarian	Mr. Dana C. Nazarian is Executive Vice President - Memory Products Division of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since February 5, 2009. Mr. Nazarian started his career with Cypress in 1988. Prior to his current position, Mr. Nazarian held various management positions, which included oversight of operations in the company Round Rock, Texas facility and Vice President of the company Synchronous SRAM business unit.
Minh Pham	Mr. Minh Pham is Executive Vice President - World Wide Manufacturing and Operations of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Prior to his current position, Mr. Pham, who joined Cypress in 1995, held various management positions responsible for Cypress’s manufacturing, test and assembly operations. He ran Cypress’s former fabrication facility in Round Rock, Texas, its current Fab 4 in Bloomington, Minnesota, and the test and assembly operations in the Philippines. Prior to joining Cypress, Mr. Pham held management positions for Mostek Corporation and Philips Semiconductors.
W. Steve Albrecht	Dr. W. Steve Albrecht is Independent Director of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since March 5, 2003. He is an Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University (“BYU”). He served as the associate dean of the school until July 2008. Mr. Albrecht, a certified public accountant, certified internal auditor, and certified fraud examiner, joined BYU in 1977 after teaching at Stanford University and the University of Illinois. Prior to becoming a professor, he worked as an accountant for Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Albrecht is the past president of the American Accounting Association and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He served on the board of directors of SunPower Corporation from 2005 to 2012. Until his resignation in 2009 due to an international assignment, Mr. Albrecht served on the board of directors of Red Hat from 2003, and SkyWest, Inc. from 2003. In 2011, he was re-appointed to the board of directors of Red Hat and in 2012 was reappointed to the board of directors of SkyWest, Inc. He is a former trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation that provides oversight to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. He is also a former member of COSO, the organization that developed the internal control framework used by most companies. He has consulted with numerous corporations on fraud, controls and financial reporting issues. He has been an witness in several financial statement fraud cases. Mr. Albrecht holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University, a Masters degree in Business Administration and a Doctorate degree in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin.
Lloyd Carney	Mr. Lloyd A. Carney is Independent Directorof Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since June 23, 2005. He is the chief executive officer of Brocade Communications Systems, a NASDAQ listed company. He was previously the chief executive officer and a director of Xsigo Systems, a venture funded IO Virtualization Platform, which was sold to Oracle Corporation. He is a member of the board of directors of Technicolor and serves as the chairman of that board’s Technology Committee. Prior to joining Xsigo in 2008, he was the general manager of IBM’s NetCool Division from 2006 to 2007. Prior to his employment at IBM, he was the chairman and chief executive officer of Micromuse from 2003-2005 before it was acquired by IBM in 2006. Prior to Micromuse, Mr. Carney was the chief operations officer and executive vice president at Juniper Networks where he oversaw the engineering, product management and manufacturing divisions from 2002 until July 2003. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Mr. Carney was the president of the Core IP Division, the Wireless Internet Division and the Enterprise Data Division at Nortel Networks from 1997 until 2001. Mr. Carney holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Wentworth Institute and a Master of Science degree in Applied Business Management from Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
James Long	Mr. James R. Long is Independent Director of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since December 15, 2000. He has been an independent business consultant since 1999 when he retired as executive vice president of Nortel Networks Corporation and president of Nortel Enterprise Solutions. Between 1991 and 1999, Mr. Long was the president of various business units at Nortel Networks, including Asia Pacific, Nortel World Trade, and the Enterprise Solutions group. Prior to joining Nortel, Mr. Long held a variety of senior executive positions with IBM Corporation and Rolm Company, an IBM and Siemens joint venture. He previously served on the board of directors of 3Com Corporation, NCR Corporation, and still serves on the board of directors of the Polynesian Cultural Center. He is also a member of the National Advisory Council of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. Mr. Long holds a Bachelor of Science degree from San Jose State University.
John McCranie	Mr. John Daniel McCranie is Independent Director of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since March 3, 2005. He serves as the chairman of the board of directors of ON Semiconductor, a position he has held since 2002. Mr. McCranie is also chairman of the board of directors of Freescale Semiconductor, a position he held through most of fiscal year 2012, as well as a member of the board of directors of Mentor Graphics. Previously, he served as chairman of the board of directors of Virage Logic and chairman of the board of directors of Actel Corporation. In the recent past, Mr. McCranie served as chairman of the board of Xicor Corporation, a member of the board of directors for California Microdevices, and a member of the board of directors for ASAT Corporation. Mr. McCranie served as Cypress’s executive vice president of sales and marketing from 1993-2001. Prior to his initial tenure with Cypress, Mr. McCranie was the chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of SEEQ Technology. Mr. McCranie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
J. Sherman	Mr. J. Donald Sherman is Independent Director of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. He is the president and chief operating officer of HubSpot, a marketing software company. Prior to joining HubSpot, Mr. Sherman was the chief financial officer at Akamai Technologies, a web networking infrastructure company, from November 2005 to February 2012. Prior to Akamai, he served as the chief financial executive of IBM’s Systems and Technology Group from January until October 2005. During his 15-year career at IBM, he held a number of senior executive positions in finance, including vice president of finance and planning for the company’s zSeries Server Division. Mr. Sherman also served as chief financial officer for CommQuest, a wholly owned IBM subsidiary in the wireless semiconductor design industry from 1998 until 2000. Mr. Sherman previously served on the board of directors of 3Com and AMI Semiconductor. Mr. Sherman holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Emory University.
Wilbert van den Hoek	Mr. Wilbert van den Hoek is Independent Director of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., since May 13, 2011. He retired from Novellus Systems, Inc. in 2008, where he was executive vice president and chief technology officer. He also served as president and chief executive officer of Novellus Development Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Novellus Systems, Inc. from 2005 until 2008. He joined Novellus Systems, Inc. in 1990 and served in various senior executive positions until his retirement in 2008. From 1980 to 1990, he held various positions at Philips Research Laboratories. From 2004 until 2006 when the company went public, he served on the board of directors of Neah Power Systems, Inc. Since 2005, he has served on the technical advisory boards of various organizations, including Cavendish Kinetics, Inc., Innopad, Inc., Innovent Technologies, LLC and Process Relations. He currently serves on the board of directors of Integrated PhotoVoltaic, Inc., a privately-held company and previously served on the board of SDC Materials and Replisaurus Technologies, Inc. Mr. van den Hoek received a Doctorandus degree in Chemistry from the Rijks Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands in December 1979.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Eric Benhamou	--
Thurman Rodgers	5,475,820
Brad Buss	3,314,110
Christopher Seams	2,764,530
Thomas Surrette	--
Sabbas Daniel	--
J. Augusto de Oliveira	--
Hassane El-Khoury	--
Alan Hawse	--
Paul Keswick	2,757,220
Badri Kothandaraman	--
Dana Nazarian	2,345,320
Minh Pham	--
W. Steve Albrecht	--
Lloyd Carney	--
James Long	--
John McCranie	--
J. Sherman	--
Wilbert van den Hoek	--

As Of 29 Dec 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Eric Benhamou	0	0
Thurman Rodgers	3,862,023	12,394,250
Brad Buss	664,137	6,638,550
Christopher Seams	1,104,796	7,619,807
Thomas Surrette	0	0
Sabbas Daniel	0	0
J. Augusto de Oliveira	0	0
Hassane El-Khoury	0	0
Alan Hawse	0	0
Paul Keswick	1,013,022	5,461,245
Badri Kothandaraman	0	0
Dana Nazarian	0	0
Minh Pham	0	0
W. Steve Albrecht	0	0
Lloyd Carney	0	0
James Long	0	0
John McCranie	0	0
J. Sherman	0	0
Wilbert van den Hoek	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
CARNEY LLOYD A	24,722	$11.50
SHERMAN J DONALD	14,932	$0.00
VAN DEN HOEK WILBERT	8,002	$0.00
BENHAMOU ERIC A	16,158	$0.00
MCCRANIE JOHN DANIEL	16,158	$0.00
SHERMAN J DONALD	16,158	$0.00
LONG JAMES ROBERT	16,158	$0.00
CARNEY LLOYD A	16,158	$0.00
ALBRECHT W STEVE	16,158	$0.00
VAN DEN HOEK WILBERT	16,158	$0.00
EL KHOURY HASSANE	2,000	$0.00
EL KHOURY HASSANE	734	$9.95
EL KHOURY HASSANE	2,606	$0.00
EL KHOURY HASSANE	1,143	$10.85
MCCRANIE JOHN DANIEL	47,197	$10.06
MCCRANIE JOHN DANIEL	5,000	$10.03
BUSS BRAD W	10,000	$9.97
EL KHOURY HASSANE	806	$0.00
EL KHOURY HASSANE	378	$9.94
BUSS BRAD W	49,021	$10.50
NAZARIAN DANA	34,016	$10.50
BUSS BRAD W	105,013	$0.00
SEAMS CHRISTOPHER A	39,217	$10.50
EL KHOURY HASSANE	3,847	$10.50
SEAMS CHRISTOPHER A	84,011	$0.00

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