People: Exar Corp (EXAR.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Richard Leza	65	2012	Independent Chairman of the Board
Louis DiNardo	52	2012	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Ryan Benton	42	2012	Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President
Thomas Melendrez	58	2007	Executive Vice President - Business Development, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary
Steven Bakos	37	2012	Senior Vice President - Sales and Marketing
Carlos Laber	60	2012	Senior Vice President - Worldwide Research and Development
Todd Smathers	63	2012	Senior Vice President - Worldwide Operations
Diane Hill	55	2010	Vice President - Human Resources
Pierre Guilbault	58	2007	Director
Behrooz Abdi	50	2012	Independent Director
Izak Bencuya	58	2009	Independent Director
Brian Hilton	69	2007	Independent Director
Gary Meyers	47	2008	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Richard Leza	Mr. Richard L. Leza is Independent Chairman of the Board of Exar Corporation. He became a director of the Company in October 2005. He was appointed as the acting Chief Executive Officer and President (Interim) of the Company in February 2007, and he served in that position until August 2007. In November 2011, Mr. Leza was appointed interim Chief Executive Officer and President and served in this capacity until January 2, 2012. Mr. Leza was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AI Research Corporation, an early stage venture capital firm specializing in the areas of business-to-business software, information technology, medical devices and medical analytical software applications. Mr. Leza served in such position, which was his principal occupation and employment, from 1988 to 2007. From 1982 to 1988, he was co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RMC Group, Inc., which provided management and research services for public and private technology companies. Mr. Leza was a board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council from 2001 to 2007 and is Emeriti Director of the New Mexico State University Foundation Board. Mr. Leza served as a director of AI Research Corporation from 1988 to 2008. Mr. Leza is now a member of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. He is a three time member of Hispanic Business Magazine’s top 100 influential Hispanics in the United States. He is the author of various publications, writing on topics such as exporting, venture capital and developing business plans. Mr. Leza earned an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from New Mexico State University.
Louis DiNardo	Mr. Louis DiNardo is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Exar Corporation since January 3, 2012. Prior to joining Exar, he was a Partner at Crosslink Capital, a stage-independent venture capital and growth equity firm based in San Francisco, which he joined in January of 2008 and focused on semiconductor and alternative energy technology investment in private companies. Mr. DiNardo was a partner at VantagePoint Venture Partners from January of 2007 through January of 2008. Mr. DiNardo was President and Chief Operating Officer at Intersil Corporation from January 2005 through October 2006. Prior to his promotion, Mr. DiNardo held the position of Executive Vice President of the Power Management Business at Intersil. He held the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, as well as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors at Xicor Corporation, a public company, from 2000 until Intersil acquired the company in July of 2004. Mr. DiNardo spent thirteen years at Linear Technology where he was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and General Manager of the Mixed-Signal Business Unit. He began his career in the semiconductor industry at Analog Devices Incorporated where he served for eight years in a variety of technical and management roles. Mr. DiNardo holds a B.A. from Ursinus College, 1981. Mr. DiNardo currently serves on Board of Directors of Synapsense Corporation, a privately-held manufacturer of high performance Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) energy efficiency products, located in Folsom, California. Mr. DiNardo also is Chairman of the Board of Directors of SoloPower Incorporated a privately-held manufacturer of thinfilm solar cells and flexible solar modules, located in San Jose, California.
Ryan Benton	Mr. Ryan A. Benton has been appointed as the Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President of Exar Corporation. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Benton was Chief Financial Officer of SynapSense Corporation located in Folsom, California, a private venture backed company serving the Data Center Infrastructure Management market. Prior to SynapSense, from February 2007 until May 2012, Mr. Benton was Chief Financial Officer of SoloPower, Inc., a thin film CIGS photovoltaic provider located in San Jose, California. From November 2004 until February 2007, Mr. Benton served as a financial consultant for the United States subsidiary of ASM International NV (NASDAQ: ASMI) in Phoenix, Arizona, a semiconductor capital equipment company, where he supported acquisitions and integration process. He also served as Chief Financial Officer for PB Unlimited, an advertising specialty manufacturer located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, from April 2002 through November 2004. Mr. Benton served as corporate controller for eFunds (NASDAQ: EFD), which was a public company located in Scottsdale, Arizona that provides information technology solutions for the financial service industry, where he was employed from September 2000 until March 2002.
Thomas Melendrez	Mr. Thomas R. Melendrez is Executive Vice President - Business Development, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Exar Corporation. He joined the company in April 1986 as the company's Corporate Attorney. He was promoted to Director, Legal Affairs in July 1991, and again to Corporate Vice President, Legal Affairs in March 1993. In March 1996, he was promoted to Corporate Vice President, General Counsel and in June 2001, he was appointed Secretary. In April 2003, he was promoted to General Counsel, Secretary and Vice President of Business Development and in July 2005, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Business Development. In April 2007, he was promoted to his current position as General Counsel, Secretary and Executive Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Melendrez has over 25 years of legal experience in the semiconductor and related industries and he received a BA from the University of Notre Dame, a JD from University of San Francisco and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Steven Bakos	Mr. Steven R. Bakos is Senior Vice President - Sales and Marketing of Exar Corp. Prior to joining Exar Corporation, Mr. Bakos served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Conexant Corporation. Mr. Bakos has held executive sales and marketing positions at SiTime, a privately held manufacturer of MEMS devices; Active Semiconductor, a privately held power management company, as well as Intersil, Xicor and Linear Technology. Mr. Bakos began his career at National Semiconductor after completing his B.S.E.E. at Cornell University.
Carlos Laber	Mr. Carlos A. Laber is Senior Vice President - Worldwide Research and Development of Exar Corp., since February 2012. Mr. Laber has over 30 years of experience in analog and mixed-signal technology and product development. Prior to his appointment at Exar, Mr. Laber served as Senior Director of Product Development at ON Semiconductor and led the power management development efforts in Santa Clara, California. Mr. Laber was at ON Semiconductor for almost three years. Mr. Laber previously served for two years as Intersil’s Vice President of Worldwide Technology, and before that, two years as Intersil’s Vice President of Engineering for the Power Management Group. He joined Intersil after the acquisition of Xicor Incorporated, where he served for two years as Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Laber came to Xicor from Micrel Semiconductor where he was the Vice President of Engineering for the Analog and RF Product group for more than two years. Prior to Micrel, Mr. Laber served at Micro Linear for 16 years, where he was Vice President of Engineering. Before Micro Linear, Mr. Laber was at National Semiconductor and Intel Corporation where he had increasingly more senior design engineering and management roles. Mr. Laber holds a BSEE degree in Electromechanical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and an MSEE degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Todd Smathers	Mr. Todd Smathers is Senior Vice President - Worldwide Operations of Exar Corporation since March 05, 2012. Mr. Smathers has over 40 years of experience in analog and mixed-signal technology and product development. He served as Vice President of Operations at Intersil Corporation and Xicor, Incorporated, which was acquired by Intersil in 2004. Prior to joining Xicor, Mr. Smathers was General Manager of the Mixed Signal Business Unit at Linear Technology Corporation where he had previously served in a variety of management and executive roles since the company’s founding in 1981. Mr. Smathers holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Clemson University.
Diane Hill	Ms. Diane Hill is Vice President - Human Resources of Exar Corporation. since With over 25 years of human resources experience, including 17 in the semiconductor industry, Ms. Hill is responsible for developing and implementing all global and regional human resources policies and programs at Exar. Since joining the company in September 2000, Ms. Hill has held various senior Human Resources positions prior to her current role, including Division Vice President, Director and Senior Manager. Previously, Ms. Hill held various management positions at Daisy Systems Corporation, a manufacturer of computer hardware and software for electronic design automation (EDA), from October 1987 to April 1990 and Teledyne MEC, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies, Inc., from August 1979 to October 1987. Ms. Hill holds a BA in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Pierre Guilbault	Mr. Pierre G. Guilbault is Director of Exar Corporation. He became a director of the Company upon the acquisition of Sipex Corporation (“Sipex”) by the Company in August 2007. Mr. Guilbault served as a member of Sipex’s board of directors from September 2006 to August 2007. He has been with Future Electronics Inc. (“Future”), the Company’s distributor and an affiliate of the Company’s stockholder, since October 2002 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Future, Mr. Guilbault was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of My Virtual Model, Motion International Inc. and Steinberg, Inc. Mr. Guilbault became a Chartered Accountant in 1981 and earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from University of Quebec at Montreal. Among other qualifications, Mr. Guilbault brings finance experience in both high-technology and other industries as well as related international business experience (in particular in Canada), including service as a public company chief financial officer, to the Board of Directors.
Behrooz Abdi	Mr. Behrooz Abdi is appointed as the Independent Director of Exar Corporation. Mr. Abdi has been providing executive leadership and funding to various early stage organizations since December 2011. He currently serves as a director at Tabula Inc., a privately held company, and InvenSense Inc., a public company. From November 2009 to December 2011, Mr. Abdi served as Executive Vice President with NetLogic Microsystems Inc. From November 2007 to November 2009, Mr. Abdi was President and CEO at RMI Corporation. From March 2004 to November 2007, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Qualcomm Incorporated. From July 1985 to December 2004, Mr. Abdi served in a number of executive management and engineering positions with Motorola Inc. Mr. Abdi holds a B.S.E.E. from Montana State University and M.S.E.E. from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Izak Bencuya	Dr. Izak Bencuya is Independent Director of Exar Corporation. Dr. Bencuya is an independent consultant on Energy and Power Management in Alternative Energy Applications. Dr. Bencuya was the Chief Executive Officer of Deeya Energy, a cleantech company dedicated to developing and manufacturing electrical energy storage systems, from June 2008 until April 2010. He worked for 13 years at National Semiconductor and then was the Executive Vice President of Fairchild Semiconductor and the General Manager of the Functional Power Products Group in San Jose, California until the end of 2007. Dr. Bencuya has over 25 years of power semiconductor industry experience. He began his career at Yale University where he researched ultra thin oxide MOS devices. Dr. Bencuya later worked at GTE Laboratories and Siliconix in various research and management roles to develop and market edge Power Devices, such as MOSFETs, IGBTs and SITs. He joined Fairchild Semiconductor in 1994 to start the Power Products business which grew to be a $950 million annual revenue business under his leadership providing Power Semiconductor solutions for all power supply applications in the computing, communications, industrial, consumer and automotive markets. Dr. Bencuya has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey and an M.S. and PhD in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University. He is a member of the IEEE Electron Device Society. Dr. Bencuya holds 22 patents and has been published in the electronics field.
Brian Hilton	Mr. Brian Hilton is Independent Director of Exar Corporation. since August 2007. Mr. Hilton served as a member of Sipex’s board of directors from July 2004 to August 2007 and as the Chairman of the board of directors of Sipex from October 2006 to August 2007. He has over 35 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Mr. Hilton has been retired since 2002. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Hilton was President of Avnet Electronics Marketing, a global electronics distributor. In this role, Mr. Hilton was responsible for building Avnet’s Asian business and expanding its presence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to Avnet, Mr. Hilton spent 30 years at Motorola, Inc., reaching the position of Corporate Vice President and Director of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector (“SPS”). From 1979 to 1981, Mr. Hilton served as Vice President Finance & Administration for Motorola SPS. From 1976 to 1978, Mr. Hilton served as the Vice President and Corporate Controller for Motorola Canada Limited. From 1969 to 1971, Mr. Hilton served as Division Controller for the Motorola Automotive Products Division. From 1964 to 1967, Mr. Hilton participated in the General Motors financial management program. Mr. Hilton currently serves as a director of Border States Electric. Mr. Hilton graduated with a BA from the University of Manitoba.
Gary Meyers	Mr. Gary Meyers is Independent Director of Exar Corporation. He was appointed as the acting Chief Executive Officer and President (Interim) of the Company in February 2007, and he served in that position until August 2007. In November 2011, Mr. Leza was appointed interim Chief Executive Officer and President and served in this capacity until January 2, 2012. Mr. Leza was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AI Research Corporation, an early stage venture capital firm specializing in the areas of business-to-business software, information technology, medical devices and medical analytical software applications. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Leza served as co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NucleoTech Corporation, an application software company focused on digital image-driven analytical DNA software solutions. From 1982 to 1988, he was co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RMC Group, Inc., which provided management and research services for public and private technology companies. Mr. Leza was a board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council from 2001 to 2007 and is Emeriti Director of the New Mexico State University Foundation Board. Mr. Leza served as a director of AI Research Corporation from 1988 to 2008. Mr. Leza is now a member of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. He is a three time member of Hispanic Business Magazine’s top 100 influential Hispanics in the United States. He is the author of various publications, writing on topics such as exporting, venture capital and developing business plans. Mr. Leza earned an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from New Mexico State University.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Richard Leza	256,576
Louis DiNardo	5,021,840
Ryan Benton	--
Thomas Melendrez	394,347
Steven Bakos	--
Carlos Laber	708,010
Todd Smathers	--
Diane Hill	--
Pierre Guilbault	--
Behrooz Abdi	--
Izak Bencuya	--
Brian Hilton	--
Gary Meyers	--

As Of 31 Mar 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Richard Leza	0	0
Louis DiNardo	0	0
Ryan Benton	0	0
Thomas Melendrez	294,000	189,791
Steven Bakos	0	0
Carlos Laber	0	0
Todd Smathers	0	0
Diane Hill	0	0
Pierre Guilbault	0	0
Behrooz Abdi	0	0
Izak Bencuya	0	0
Brian Hilton	0	0
Gary Meyers	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
BENTON RYAN A	705	$9.92
LABER CARLOS A	6,651	$10.51
SMATHERS R TODD	8,310	$10.51
BAKOS STEVEN R	4,069	$10.51
SMATHERS R TODD	22,657	$0.00
MELENDREZ THOMAS R	11,900	$0.00
BENTON RYAN A	10,520	$0.00
MELENDREZ THOMAS R	4,520	$10.51
DINARDO LOUIS	10,399	$10.51
BENTON RYAN A	3,872	$10.51
LABER CARLOS A	12,973	$0.00
BAKOS STEVEN R	11,093	$0.00
DINARDO LOUIS	28,349	$0.00
DINARDO LOUIS	100,000	$0.00
DINARDO LOUIS	12,227	$10.78
DINARDO LOUIS	5,388	$10.30
LABER CARLOS A	4,861	$11.64
MEYERS GARY S	10,000	$10.16
BENTON RYAN A	25,000	$0.00
LEZA RICHARD LOUIS SR	5,686	$8.13
LEZA RICHARD LOUIS SR	4,314	$8.15
GUILBAULT PIERRE G	15,000	$8.00
MELENDREZ THOMAS R	2,247	$7.99
HILTON BRIAN O	5,000	$7.77
SOROS FUND MANAGEMENT L L C	50,000	$8.45

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