People: Entropic Communications Inc (ENTR.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Umesh Padval	54	2009	Independent Chairman of the Board
Patrick Henry	50	2009	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
David Lyle	48	2007	Chief Financial Officer
Lance Bridges	51	2012	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Mark Samuel	44	2012	Senior Vice President, General Manager - STB business unit
Charlie Lesko	54	2012	Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales
Michael Farese	66	2012	Senior Vice President - Global Engineering
Vahid Manian	52	2012	Senior Vice President - Global Operations
Trevor Renfield	41	2012	Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President - Accounting
William Bock	62	2012	Director
Robert Bailey	55	2010	Independent Director
Keith Bechard	60	2009	Independent Director
Kenneth Merchant	65	2007	Independent Director
Theodore Tewksbury	55	2010	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Umesh Padval	Mr. Umesh Padval serves as Independent Chairman of the Board of Entropic Communications Inc since January 2009. Mr. Padval has served as a member of board since December 2004 and has been independent chairman since January 2009. Mr. Padval currently serves as a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. Prior to joining Bessemer in September 2007, Mr. Padval served as executive vice president, consumer products at LSI Corporation, a storage technology, networking and consumer electronics company. Prior to his promotion to executive vice president, consumer products, Mr. Padval was senior vice president and general manager for LSI’s broadband entertainment division, a position he held from 2001 until his promotion. Mr. Padval served as chief executive officer of C-Cube Microsystems, from 2000 until its acquisition by LSI in 2001, its president from 1998 to 2000, and a member of its board of directors from 1998 to 2001. Previously, Mr. Padval was senior vice president and general manager of the consumer digital entertainment division at VLSI Technology, Inc., an integrated circuits company that was acquired by Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Mr. Padval also served as senior vice president and general manager for VLSI’s computing division. Before joining VLSI in 1987, Mr. Padval held marketing and engineering positions at AMD. Mr. Padval currently serves on the board of directors of the public company Integrated Device Technology, Inc., and on the boards of directors of several private companies. Mr. Padval holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and an M.S. in engineering from Stanford University.
Patrick Henry	Mr. Patrick C. Henry is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Entropic Communications, Inc. Mr. Henry has been chief executive officer and member of board of directors since September 2003 and president since February 2008. Mr. Henry also served as chairman of board of directors from July 2007 to January 2009 and as president from September 2003 to July 2007. From February 2003 to September 2003, Mr. Henry was president and chief executive officer of Pictos Technologies Inc., a developer of digital imaging products which was acquired by ESS Technology. Prior to 2003, Mr. Henry served as chief executive officer of Lincom Wireless, Inc., a chip manufacturing company focused on 802.11 wireless LAN products, vice president and general manager at LSI Logic Corporation, a provider of silicon, systems and software technologies, and senior vice president at C-Cube Microsystems Inc., a developer of digital video integrated circuits. Mr. Henry has served on the board of directors of Zenverge, Inc., a privately held semiconductor company, since September 2011. Mr. Henry holds a B.S. in engineering science and mechanics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.
David Lyle	Mr. David Lyle is Chief Financial Officer of Entropic Communications, Inc. From August 2005 to June 2007, Mr. Lyle was the chief financial officer at RF Magic, acquired by Entropic in June 2007. Prior to RF Magic, Mr. Lyle was finance director and controller for the mobile communications business unit at Broadcom, a provider of integrated semiconductor solutions. He joined Broadcom in July 2004 through its acquisition of Zyray Wireless Inc., a WCDMA baseband co-processor company, where he served as chief financial officer beginning in January 2004. Prior to 2004, Mr. Lyle served as chief financial officer at Mobilian Corporation, a wireless data communications semiconductor company, and in various finance roles at Intel Corporation, a semiconductor company. At Intel, Mr. Lyle served in the microprocessor and networking groups and in the strategic investment arm of Intel, now known as Intel Capital. Mr. Lyle holds a B.S. in business from the University of Southern California, an M.B.A. from Arizona State University and an M.I.M. from The Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Lance Bridges	Mr. Lance W. Bridges is Senior Vice President, General Counsel of Entropic Communications, Inc. Mr. Bridges joined Entropic in May 2007 as vice president of corporate development, general counsel and secretary. Prior to joining Entropic, Mr. Bridges was a partner at Cooley LLP, where he practiced law since 1991.
Mark Samuel	Mr. Mark Samuel is Senior Vice President, General Manager - STB business unit of Entropic Communications, Inc. Prior to joining Entropic, from February 2010 until April 2012, Mr. Samuel served in senior management, most recently as senior vice president, at Trident Microsystems, Inc., a semiconductor company serving the television and set-top box markets. From September 2006 to February 2010, Mr. Samuel worked for NXP Semiconductors, Inc., a semiconductor company, most recently as its vice president. Before that, Mr. Samuel held management positions with Philips Semiconductors and Sony Corporation.
Charlie Lesko	Mr. Charlie Lesko is Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales of Entropic Communications, Inc. Prior to joining Entropic, from November 2010 until July 2012, Mr. Lesko served as senior vice president of the Automotive Products Business Group at CSR, plc., a semiconductor company and a in connectivity, applications processing, video and imaging technology. From August 2008 until November 2010, Mr. Lesko was senior vice president, worldwide sales at CSR, plc. From March 2008 until August 2008, he served as vice president worldwide sales at Maxlinear, Inc., a semiconductor company. From April 2003 to March 2008, Mr. Lesko served as senior vice president of sales and marketing at AMI Semiconductor. Prior to this, Mr. Lesko held management sales positions with various semiconductor companies, including Broadcom Corporation, Axcelis Technologies and Teradyne Inc.
Michael Farese	Dr. Michael R. Farese, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President - Global Engineering of Entropic Communications, Inc. Dr. Farese joined Entropic in June 2010 as senior vice president, engineering and operations. Prior to joining Entropic, from September 2007 until May 2010, Dr. Farese served as chief executive officer at Bitwave Semiconductor, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company and innovator in the development of programmable radio integrated circuits. From September 2005 until September 2007, Dr. Farese served as the senior vice president of engineering at Palm, Inc., a developer of PDAs and wireless smartphones. From March 2002 until July 2005, Dr. Farese served as president and chief executive officer at WJ Communications, Inc., a radio frequency semiconductor company providing radio frequency integrated circuits to the wireless infrastructure market, and from October 1999 until January 2002, Dr. Farese served as the president and chief executive officer at Tropian, Inc., a provider of cellular, application-specific integrated circuits. Dr. Farese has also held senior management positions at Motorola, Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. and Ericsson Inc. Dr. Farese is a member of the board of directors of Quicklogic Corporation and PMC-Sierra Inc.
Vahid Manian	Mr. Vahid Manian is Senior Vice President - Global Operations of Entropic Communications, Inc. Prior to joining Entropic, from September 2010 until June 2011, Mr. Manian served as senior vice president of business operations at Telegent Systems, a semiconductor company serving the mobile TV market that was later acquired by Spreadtrum Communication, a Shanghai-based semiconductor company. From April 2004 until December 2008, Mr. Manian was in senior management at Broadcom Corporation, a communications semiconductor company, most recently serving as senior vice president of global manufacturing operations where he oversaw Broadcom’s operations and manufacturing activities.
Trevor Renfield	Mr. Trevor Renfield is Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President - Accounting of Entropic Communications, Inc. From October 2010 to April 2012, Mr. Renfield served as Entropic’s corporate controller and principal accounting officer. Prior to joining Entropic, from August 2007 until October 2010, Mr. Renfield served as vice president, finance and treasurer at DivX, Inc., a creator, distributor and licensor of digital video technologies. From January 2004 until August 2007, Mr. Renfield served as the senior director of finance at Novatel Wireless, Inc., a provider of wireless broadband access solutions, and from June 2003 until January 2004, Mr. Renfield served as the director of financial reporting at Remec, Inc. (acquired by Powerwave Technologies in 2005), a wireless infrastructure business.
William Bock	Mr. William G. Bock has been appointed as Director of Entropic Communications, Inc., effective September 27, 2012. He retired from Silicon Laboratories in 2011, after serving five-years as the Company’s senior vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer. Prior to joining Silicon Laboratories, Mr. Bock was a partner at venture capital firms CenterPoint Ventures and Verity Ventures. He served as president and chief executive officer of Dazel Corporation, a provider of electronic information delivery systems, which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Bock held the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer of Tivoli Systems, a client server software company, which he helped take public in 1995, and was later acquired by IBM. Prior to Tivoli, Mr. Bock completed an IPO at Convex Computer Corporation as chief financial officer, and spent nine-years in key finance roles at Texas Instruments. Mr. Bock is a director of Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ: SLAB), and private companies SailPoint Technologies, UnboundID, FiftyOne and Worksoft. He has served previously as a director of Convio, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNVO), which was acquired by Blackbaud Inc. Mr. Bock holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Iowa State University and a master’s degree in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
Robert Bailey	Mr. Robert L. Bailey has been appointed as Independent Director of Entropic Communications, Inc effective September 6, 2010. Prior to his retirement in 2011, Mr. Bailey served as the president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra, Inc., a semiconductor solutions company, from 1997 to 2008, and as its chairman from 2000 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2011. Mr. Bailey also served as the president of PMC-Sierra, Inc.’s subsidiary, PMC-Sierra, Ltd., from 1993 to 2011. Prior to joining PMC Sierra, Mr. Bailey served as the vice president and general manager of AT&T Microelectronics (now part of LSI Logic), a semiconductor company, from 1989 to 1993, and served in various management positions at Texas Instruments, an analog technologies, semiconductor and signal processing company, from 1979 to 1989. Mr. Bailey is also a director of Micron Technology, Inc., a publicly traded company that provides advanced semiconductor memory solutions. Mr. Bailey received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bridgeport and an MBA from the University of Dallas. He also attended Stanford University Business School’s AEA Executive Training.
Keith Bechard	Mr. Keith Bechard serves as Independent Director of Entropic Communications Inc since June 15, 2009. Since March 2002, Mr. Bechard has been the owner of Pear Lake Consulting, LLC, a consulting company, through which Mr. Bechard currently serves a consultant to Charter Communications, Inc., and previously served as a consultant to Time Warner Cable, Inc. and Canoe Ventures LLC and as an executive advisor to NGNA, LLC d/b/a Polycipher, both of which are cable industry joint ventures in which Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications, Inc. are members. Before forming his own consulting company, from July 2000 to March 2002, Mr. Bechard was vice president, video product engineering with AT&T Inc.’s broadband division, where he was responsible for deploying advanced digital set tops and launching systems to provide interactive television services. Mr. Bechard holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Colorado.
Kenneth Merchant	Dr. Kenneth Merchant, Ph.D., serves as Independent Director of Entropic Communications Inc since April 2007. Dr. Merchant has served as a member of board since April 2007. Since 1997, Dr. Merchant has held the Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy at the University of Southern California, or USC. Dr. Merchant has also served as senior associate dean — corporate programs in USC’s Marshall School of Business and as dean of USC’s Leventhal School of Accounting. Before joining USC, Dr. Merchant taught at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Merchant started his professional career at Texas Instruments, Inc. and an independent accounting firm that was a predecessor of Ernst & Young LLP. He was a director of Universal Guardian Holdings, Inc., a public company, from 2006 to 2008 and Diagnostic Products Corporation, a public company that is now a part of a part of Siemens Medical Solutions, from 2003 to 2006. Dr. Merchant holds a B.A. in industrial economics from Union College, an M.B.A. in operations research and production from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of California, Berkeley.
Theodore Tewksbury	Dr. Theodore Tewksbury, Ph.D. has been appointed as Independent Director of Entropic Communications, Inc effective September 6, 2010. Dr. Tewksbury is currently the president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Integrated Device Technology Inc., a publicly traded, mixed signal semiconductor solutions company. Prior to joining Integrated Device Technology in 2008, he was the president and chief operating officer of AMI Semiconductor, a semiconductor company, from 2006 to 2008. Prior to that, Dr. Tewksbury served as managing director at Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., a designer, manufacturer and seller of high-performance semiconductor products, from 2000 to 2006. Dr. Tewksbury is a member of the board of directors of Global Semiconductor Alliance. Dr. Tewksbury holds a BS, an MS, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Umesh Padval	--
Patrick Henry	2,426,990
David Lyle	976,291
Lance Bridges	689,717
Mark Samuel	--
Charlie Lesko	--
Michael Farese	--
Vahid Manian	--
Trevor Renfield	--
William Bock	--
Robert Bailey	--
Keith Bechard	--
Kenneth Merchant	--
Theodore Tewksbury	--

As Of 30 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Umesh Padval	0	0
Patrick Henry	216,889	1,162,280
David Lyle	16,680	38,178
Lance Bridges	15,000	146,672
Mark Samuel	0	0
Charlie Lesko	0	0
Michael Farese	0	0
Vahid Manian	0	0
Trevor Renfield	0	0
William Bock	0	0
Robert Bailey	0	0
Keith Bechard	0	0
Kenneth Merchant	0	0
Theodore Tewksbury	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
LYLE DAVID B	100	$3.85
BRIDGES LANCE W	300	$3.90
LYLE DAVID B	100	$3.88
BRIDGES LANCE W	2,100	$3.94
LYLE DAVID B	1,400	$3.93
LYLE DAVID B	1,900	$3.93
LYLE DAVID B	500	$3.95
BRIDGES LANCE W	3,700	$3.93
LYLE DAVID B	100	$3.80
BRIDGES LANCE W	200	$3.85
LYLE DAVID B	1,400	$3.94
LYLE DAVID B	100	$3.96
BRIDGES LANCE W	300	$3.84
BRIDGES LANCE W	800	$3.94
LYLE DAVID B	1,716	$3.92
BRIDGES LANCE W	1,300	$3.95
LYLE DAVID B	600	$3.94
LYLE DAVID B	200	$3.84
LYLE DAVID B	200	$3.92
BRIDGES LANCE W	200	$3.80
BRIDGES LANCE W	3,500	$3.93
BRIDGES LANCE W	2,700	$3.92
BRIDGES LANCE W	2,900	$3.95
LYLE DAVID B	1,384	$3.95
BRIDGES LANCE W	400	$3.96

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