People: Power Integrations Inc (POWI.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
E.Floyd Kvamme	74	2011	Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Board
Balu Balakrishnan	58	2010	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Sandeep Nayyar	53	2010	Chief Financial Officer, Vice President - Finance
John Tomlin	65	2001	Vice President - Operations
Ben Sutherland	41	2011	Vice President - Worldwide Sales
Douglas Bailey	46	2004	Vice President - Marketing
Radu Barsan		2013	Vice President - Technology
Clifford Walker	61	1995	Vice President - Corporate Development
Alan Bickell	75	1999	Independent Director
Nicholas Brathwaite	53	2000	Independent Director
William George	69	2009	Independent Director
Balakrishnan Iyer	56	2004	Independent Director
Steven Sharp	71	2011	Independent Director
Joe Shiffler			Director, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications

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Biographies

Name	Description
E.Floyd Kvamme	Mr. E. Floyd Kvamme is Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Power Integrations, Inc., since April, 2011. Mr. Kvamme is a veteran of the semiconductor industry and previously served as a member of the board of directors of: National Semiconductor Corporation, one of the world’s semiconductor companies focused on analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and sub-systems; and currently serves on the board of directors of Harmonic Inc., a broadband optical networking and digital video systems company. He also served on the board of directors of Photon Dynamics, Inc., a public company and provider of products and services to flat panel display manufacturers, until March 2006. During his career, Mr. Kvamme has been a member of the board of directors of over 15 companies in the semiconductor, personal computer software, systems software and optical systems markets, including publicly traded companies such as: TriQuint, Brio, Lotus, Harmonic, MiniStor and Bachman Information Systems. From 1984 through 2008, Mr. Kvamme was a General Partner and now serves as a Partner Emeritus of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital company. Mr. Kvamme has over 40 years in the semiconductor industry, including as an engineer, in sales and marketing and in management. From 2001 to 2009, Mr. Kvamme was the Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, advising President George W. Bush on science and technology matters. He was also the Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Apple Computer, 1982 – 1984, responsible for all sales, marketing and advertising of Apple in the United States and some foreign countries. Mr. Kvamme has a B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley an MSE in Semiconductor Electronics from Syracuse University, and did post Masters studies in Circuit Design, Computer Design and Control Systems at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Balu Balakrishnan	Mr. Balu Balakrishnan is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Power Integrations, Inc. He served as president and chief operating officer from April 2001 to January 2002. From January 2000 to April 2001, he was vice president of engineering and strategic marketing. From September 1997 to January 2000, he was vice president of engineering and new business development. From September 1994 to September 1997, Mr. Balakrishnan served as vice president of engineering and marketing. Prior to joining Power Integrations in 1989, Mr. Balakrishnan was employed by National Semiconductor Corporation.
Sandeep Nayyar	Mr. Sandeep Nayyar is Chief Financial Officer, Vice President - Finance of Power Integrations Inc. Previously Mr. Nayyar served as vice president of finance at Applied Biosystems, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of life-sciences products, from 2002 to 2009. Mr. Nayyar was a member of the executive team with world-wide responsibilities for finance. From 1990 to 2001, Mr. Nayyar served in a succession of financial roles including vice president of finance at Quantum Corporation, a computer storage company. Mr. Nayyar also worked for five years in the public-accounting field at Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Nayyar is a Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Accountant and has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Delhi, India.
John Tomlin	Mr. John Tomlin is Vice President - Operations of Power Integrations, Inc. From 1981 to 2001, Mr. Tomlin served in a variety of senior management positions in operations, service, logistics and marketing, most recently as vice president of worldwide operations at Quantum Corporation, a computer storage company. In addition, Mr. Tomlin held positions in operations and supply chain management at Intel, a semiconductor chip manufacturer, and Diablo Systems, a disc drive and daisy wheel printer company.
Ben Sutherland	Mr. Ben Sutherland is Vice President - Worldwide Sales of Power Integrations Inc. Mr. Sutherland joined the company in May 2000 as a member of the sales organization in Europe. From May 2000 to July 2011, Mr. Sutherland served in sales positions responsible primarily for international sales, and more recently for domestic sales. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Sutherland served in various product marketing and sales roles at Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components.
Douglas Bailey	Mr. Douglas Bailey is Vice President - Marketing of Power Integrations, Inc. From March 2001 to April 2004, he served as vice president of marketing at ChipX, a structured ASIC company. His earlier experience includes serving as business management and marketing consultant for Sapiential Prime, Inc., director of sales and business unit manager for 8x8, Inc., and serving in application engineering management for IIT, Inc. and design engineering roles with LSI Logic, Inmos, Ltd. and Marconi.
Radu Barsan	Dr. Radu M. Barsan, Ph.D., has been appointed as Vice President - Technology of Power Integrations Inc. Dr. Barsan has more than 30 years of experience in engineering management, technology development and manufacturing in silicon and compound-semiconductor technologies. Most recently, he served as president and CEO of Redfern Integrated Optics, Inc., a privately held optoelectronics company. Previously, he served in a succession of engineering-management roles at Phaethon Communications, Cirrus Logic, Advanced Micro Devices and Cypress Semiconductor. Dr. Barsan holds a Ph.D. in microelectronics from Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
Clifford Walker	Mr. Clifford J. Walker is Vice President - Corporate Development of Power Integrations, Inc. From September 1994 to June 1995, Mr. Walker served as vice president of Reach Software Corporation, a software company. From December 1993 to September 1994, Mr. Walker served as president of Morgan Walker International, a consulting company.
Alan Bickell	Mr. Alan D. Bickell is Independent Director of Power Integrations, Inc., since April 1999. Mr. Bickell was also previously a member of the board of directors of Asiainfo Holdings, and served as a member of its compensation committee. Mr. Bickell spent more than 30 years with Hewlett Packard Company, a computer-hardware company, serving as corporate senior vice president and managing director of geographic operations from 1992 until his retirement in 1996. In his role at Hewlett Packard, Mr. Bickell’s responsibilities included overseeing Hewlett Packard’s worldwide field sales infrastructure, as well as general management responsibility for Hewlett Packard’s international presence in the Asia Pacific, Latin America and Canada. Mr. Bickell serves on the board of directors of the Peking University Educational Foundation (USA). Mr. Bickell has experience in finance, accounting and MIS systems, as well as experience in international operations, having resided in Japan, Australia, Scotland, Switzerland and Hong Kong during his career at Hewlett Packard. Mr. Bickell also has corporate governance experience through his role at Hewlett Packard, as well as on the board of directors of Power Integrations and Asiainfo Holdings. Mr. Bickell has a B.S. in Business Administration from Menlo College, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Nicholas Brathwaite	Mr. Nicholas E. Brathwaite is Independent Director of Power Integrations, Inc., since January 2000. Mr. Brathwaite is a veteran of the semiconductor industry and served as a member of the board of directors of Tessera Technologies, Inc., a technology innovator that invests in, licenses and delivers innovative miniaturization technologies for next-generation electronic devices from February 2008 until May 2011 and Photon Dynamics, Inc., a public company and provider of products and services to flat panel display manufacturers, prior to its acquisition in October 2008. Mr. Brathwaite has been involved with semiconductor companies, hardware development (including power supplies) and electronic services (including manufacturing) since 1986. Mr. Brathwaite was the Chief Executive Officer of Aptina Imaging Corporation, a $600M fabless semiconductor company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Micron Technology, serving similar markets, customers and applications as those of Power Integrations, from April 2008 to July 2009, and is currently its Chairman of the Board. He served as the Vice President of Technology of Flextronics International Ltd., an electronics company, from 1995 to 2000, and as Flextronics’ Chief Technology Officer from 2000 until 2007, where he played a role in the transformation of Flextronics from a small contract manufacturer to a global Electronics Manufacturing Service Provider, during which revenues grew from $150 million to $30 billion. At Flextronics he initiated, built and managed several businesses with revenues ranging from $30 million to $6 billion, including ODM Services, power supplies and other component businesses. Mr. Brathwaite received a B.S. in Applied Chemistry from McMaster University, and an M.S. in Polymer Science & Engineering from University of Waterloo.
William George	Dr. William L. George, Ph.D., is Independent Director of Power Integrations, Inc., since March 11, 2009. Dr. George is a veteran of the semiconductor industry and currently serves as a member of the board of directors of two other publicly traded companies: Silicon Image, Inc., a designer and developer of mixed-signal integrated circuits; and Ramtron International Corporation, a supplier of integrated circuits enabled by ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM). He also served on the board of directors of Metron Technologies, N.V., a global supplier of semiconductor equipment and materials, prior to its acquisition in December 2004. From 1999 until June 2007, Dr. George served as an executive vice president of ON Semiconductor, a supplier of performance power solutions, where he was responsible for manufacturing, supply chain, planning, quality and technology development. From 2007 through his retirement in 2008 he directed the startup of ON Semiconductor’s foundry services business. From 1968 until 1999, Dr. George was employed by Motorola, Inc., and served as Corporate Vice President and Director of Manufacturing for Motorola’s Semiconductor Components Group from June 1997 until July 1999, where he was responsible for manufacturing operations, quality, and technology development. Dr. George serves on the compensation committee and chairs the nominating and governance committee of Silicon Image. He serves on the audit committee and chairs the compensation and nominating and governance committees of Ramtron, has chaired special board committees on mergers and acquisitions, and has served on a number of advisory boards. Dr. George is a member of the Sandia National Laboratories Research Advisory Board. He received a B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Purdue University.
Balakrishnan Iyer	Mr. Balakrishnan S. Iyer is Independent Director of Power Integrations, Inc., since February 24, 2004. Mr. Iyer has served on public company boards since 2001, and currently serves on the board of directors of: Life Technologies Corporation, an S&P 500 company in the life science technology industry; IHS Inc., a company that provides critical information and insight in the Energy, Security, Environment and Product Lifecycle management fields; QLogic Corporation, a provider of storage and communications equipment; and Skyworks Solutions, Inc., a mixed signal fabless semiconductor company. Mr. Iyer also served on the board of directors of the Overture Systems prior to the sale of the company to Yahoo and Conexant Systems, Inc., a designer, developer and seller of semiconductor systems solutions for communications applications prior to the sale of the company to Golden Gate Capital. Mr. Iyer retired from Conexant Systems in 2003 after serving for five years as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In that role, Mr. Iyer was responsible for all the financial functions for the company including Operational Finance, Controllership, Treasury, Tax and Investor Relations as well as Strategy and Business Development. He also led the execution of the strategic restructuring of the company from an integrated semiconductor company with a full range of manufacturing operations to a family of pure play fabless semiconductor companies. Earlier in his career, Mr. Iyer worked in Silicon Valley for 17 years in the semiconductor industry in Finance roles at Advanced Micro Devices, Cypress Semiconductor and at VLSI Technology where he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer as well as in engineering roles at National Semiconductor Corporation. Mr. Iyer has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, an MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Steven Sharp	Mr. Steven J. Sharp is Independent Director of Power Integrations, Inc. He has served as a director of Power Integrations since 1988, and served as non-executive chairman of the Board from May 2006 to April 2011. Mr. Sharp served as Power Integrations’ Interim Chief Executive Officer during its first year in 1988. Three of the companies Mr. Sharp participated in creation of were on the 2011 Fortune List of 100 fastest growing public corporations. Mr. Sharp is a 51 year veteran of the semiconductor industry and since 1991 has served as a member of the board of directors of TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor components. Previously, he also served on the board of directors of the following publicly traded companies: Pixelworks Inc., a fabless semiconductor company supplying graphics integrated circuits used in projectors, monitors and TV’s; and Megatest, a company that designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced automatic test equipment for the integrated circuit industry. Mr. Sharp has previously served on all the committees of each Board of Directors on which he has served. Mr. Sharp served at TriQuint as President, Chief Executive Officer and director from September 1991 until July 2002. Prior to TriQuint, Mr. Sharp was associated with various venture capital and startup semiconductor firms. He helped start Crystal Semiconductor (now Cirrus Logic, Inc.), Gazelle Microcircuits, Inc. (now TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.), Megatest Corporation (now Teradyne, Inc.) and Volterra Semiconductor Corporation. In 1989, he also founded Silicon Architects, Inc. (since acquired by Synopsys, Inc.). Prior to that, Mr. Sharp spent 23 years with Texas Instruments and Phillips in the semiconductor industry. Mr. Sharp has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, an M.S.E.S from the California Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Stanford University. He also attended director training at Harvard University.
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Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
E.Floyd Kvamme	--
Balu Balakrishnan	2,731,990
Sandeep Nayyar	625,290
John Tomlin	927,808
Ben Sutherland	--
Douglas Bailey	764,307
Radu Barsan	--
Clifford Walker	917,841
Alan Bickell	--
Nicholas Brathwaite	--
William George	--
Balakrishnan Iyer	--
Steven Sharp	--
Joe Shiffler	--

As Of 30 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
E.Floyd Kvamme	0	0
Balu Balakrishnan	1,933,560	14,910,154
Sandeep Nayyar	10,250	189,799
John Tomlin	397,222	1,803,330
Ben Sutherland	0	0
Douglas Bailey	20,100	266,882
Radu Barsan	0	0
Clifford Walker	371,668	2,417,750
Alan Bickell	0	0
Nicholas Brathwaite	0	0
William George	0	0
Balakrishnan Iyer	0	0
Steven Sharp	0	0
Joe Shiffler	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	5,000	$17.18
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	5,000	$41.77
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	8,181	$17.18
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	8,181	$42.58
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	6,819	$17.18
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	6,819	$42.44
SHARP STEVEN J	10,000	$42.47
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	15,000	$17.18
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	15,000	$43.90
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	10,572	$27.22
IYER BALAKRISHNAN S	10,000	$45.15
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	26,832	$45.08
IYER BALAKRISHNAN S	10,000	$28.55
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	16,260	$17.18
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	15,000	$44.34
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	15,000	$27.22
BELL DEREK J	2,000	$44.90
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	9,899	$27.22
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	9,899	$44.97
BELL DEREK J	2,000	$21.14
BAILEY DOUGLAS J	2,000	$19.73
BAILEY DOUGLAS J	2,000	$43.42
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	15,000	$43.17
BALAKRISHNAN BALU	15,000	$27.22
SUTHERLAND BENJAMIN C	773	$43.49

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People: Power Integrations Inc (POWI.O)

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