People: QLogic Corp (QLGC.O)

QLGC.O on Nasdaq

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

H. Desai

66 2010 Executive Chairman of the Board

Simon Biddiscombe

45 2010 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

Jean Hu

49 2011 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President

Roger Klein

61 2009 Senior Vice President, General Manager - Host Solutions Group

Robert Crawford

48 2011 Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales

Perry Mulligan

54 2007 Senior Vice President - Worldwide Operations

George Wells

77 Lead Independent Director

Christine King

63 2013 Director

Balakrishnan Iyer

56 2003 Independent Director

Kathryn Lewis

61 2008 Independent Director

D. Scott Mercer

61 2010 Independent Director

William Zeitler

64 2010 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

H. Desai

Mr. H. K. Desai is Executive Chairman of the Board of QLogic Corporation. He joined the Company in August 1995 as interim Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Technical Officer. Mr. Desai was subsequently promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer and became a director in January 1996, and became Chairman of the Board in May 1999. Mr. Desai served as President and Chief Executive Officer until November 2010, at which time he assumed his current role of Executive Chairman. From May 1995 to August 1995, Mr. Desai was Vice President, Engineering (Systems Products) at Western Digital Corporation, a manufacturer of digital storage devices. From July 1990 until May 1995, Mr. Desai served as Director of Engineering, and subsequently Vice President of Engineering, for QLogic. From 2000 to 2007, he served as a director of Lantronix, Inc., and he currently serves on the Board of Directors of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation and Netlist, Inc. Mr. Desai has been Chairman of the Board and an executive officer for over ten years.

Simon Biddiscombe

Mr. Simon Biddiscombe is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of QLogic Corp., since November 15, 2010. He joined the Company in April 2008 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Biddiscombe served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Mindspeed Technologies, Inc., a semiconductor company, from June 2003 until April 2008, and as Secretary from April 2004 until April 2008. Mr. Biddiscombe previously served as the Vice President, Finance, and Controller of the internet infrastructure business of Conexant Systems, Inc. (“Conexant”), a designer, developer and seller of semiconductor system solutions for communications applications, from December 2000 to June 2003. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from May 1999 to December 2000 and the Chief Operating Officer from May 2000 to December 2000 of Wyle Electronics, a distributor of semiconductor products.

Jean Hu

Ms. Jean X. Hu is Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Qlogic Corp., since April 2011. Previously, Ms. Hu served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Business Development, of Conexant from December 2008 until April 2011. She served as Treasurer of Conexant from June 2009 until April 2011. From February 2006 to December 2008, Ms. Hu served as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, and from February 2004 to February 2006, as Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, at Conexant. Prior to February 2004, Ms. Hu held various positions in financial planning, strategy and corporate development at Conexant and its predecessor company, Rockwell International Corporation.

Roger Klein

Mr. Roger J. Klein is Senior Vice President and General Manager - Host Solutions Group of QLogic Corporation. He joined the Company in February 2001 and has held a variety of field marketing and business unit marketing positions. He was promoted to Vice President, General Manager, Computer Systems Group in August 2006, to Vice President, General Manager, Host Solutions Group, in February 2007, and to Senior Vice President and General Manager, Host Solutions Group, in May 2009. From 1997 to January 2001, Mr. Klein held various positions at CMD Technology, most recently as Vice President, Marketing. Prior to 1997, Mr. Klein held various positions at Unisys Corporation and Burroughs Corporation.

Robert Crawford

Mr. Robert B. Crawford has been appointed as Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales of QLogic Corp., effective May 10th, 2011. Previously, Mr. Crawford served as Vice President, Worldwide Channel and Inside Sales, from March 2010 until May 2011, and as Vice President, Worldwide OEM Sales, from August 2006 until March 2010, at Quantum Corporation (“Quantum”), a storage company specializing in backup, recovery and archive solutions. He served as Director, Channel and OEM Sales, at Advanced Digital Information Corporation (“ADIC”) from March 2006 until Quantum’s acquisition of ADIC in August 2006. Prior to March 2006, Mr. Crawford held various senior sales, account and product management executive positions at Dell Inc. and Compaq Computer Corporation.

Perry Mulligan

Mr. Perry M. Mulligan is Senior Vice President - Worldwide Operations of QLogic Corporation, since October 2007. From May 2004 to September 2007, Mr. Mulligan was Chief Procurement Officer and Senior Vice President of Materials for Solectron Corporation. From February 1998 to May 2004, Mr. Mulligan served in a variety of positions at Celestica, Inc., including Vice President of Customer Solutions and Vice President of Asia Sourcing. Prior to 1998, Mr. Mulligan held a number of management positions at Nortel Networks Corporation in the operations, information technology and materials management groups.

George Wells

Mr. George D. Wells is Lead Independent Director of QLogic Corporation. He has served as a director since February 1994. Mr. Wells was President and Chief Executive Officer of Exar Corporation, a manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, from June 1992 until he retired in October 1996. Before joining Exar, Mr. Wells served as President and Chief Operating Officer of LSI Corporation (formerly LSI Logic Corporation), a manufacturer of application-specific integrated circuits, for seven years.

Christine King

Ms. Christine King has been appointed as Director of QLogic Corp., effective April 29, 2013. Ms. King has executive experience working with technology companies. Her previous roles include serving as the chief executive officer and president of Standard Microsystems Corporation and AMI Semiconductor, Inc., and over 23 years at IBM in various management and executive positions, including her last assignment as Vice President of Semiconductor Solutions. In addition, King has board experience having previously served on the boards of several technology companies, including Atheros Communications, Inc. and Analog Devices, Inc., and currently serves as a director of Idaho Power Company.

Balakrishnan Iyer

Mr. Balakrishnan S. Iyer is Independent Director of QLogic Corporation, since June 2003. From October 1998 to June 2003, Mr. Iyer was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Conexant. Prior to October 1998, Mr. Iyer served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of VLSI Technology, Inc. Mr. Iyer has held a number of senior finance positions at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a semiconductor company. Mr. Iyer currently serves on the Board of Directors of IHS Inc., Life Technologies Corp. (successor to Invitrogen Corporation), Power Integrations, Inc. and Skyworks Solutions, Inc. He also served on the Board of Directors of Conexant from February 2002 to April 2011.

Kathryn Lewis

Ms. Kathryn Braun Lewis is Independent Director of QLogic Corporation, since February 2008. Ms. Lewis is currently Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Share Our Selves, an organization that serves people at risk in Southern California. Until her retirement in 1998, Ms. Lewis held several executive positions with Western Digital Corporation. At the time of her retirement, she was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Western Digital’s Personal Storage Division. From 2002 to 2007, she served as a director of Lantronix, Inc.

D. Scott Mercer

Mr. D. Scott Mercer is Independent Director of QLogic Corp., since September 9, 2010. Mr. Mercer was Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Conexant from August 2008 and April 2008, respectively, until April 2011. From November 2005 until April 2008, Mr. Mercer worked as a private investor, and from May 2005 to November 2005, Mr. Mercer served as interim Chief Executive Officer of Adaptec, Inc. Mr. Mercer served as Senior Vice President and Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer from February 2004 through December 2004, and as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from October 2001 through January 2004, at Western Digital Corporation. From June 2000 to September 2001, Mr. Mercer served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Teralogic, Inc. From June 1996 to May 2000, he held various senior operating and financial positions with Dell Inc. Mr. Mercer currently serves as a director of Polycom, Inc. He also served on the Boards of Directors of Net Ratings, Inc. from January 2001 to June 2007, Adaptec, Inc. from November 2003 to October 2008, SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc. from June 2007 to January 2009, Palm, Inc. from June 2005 to July 2010, and Conexant from May 2003 to April 2011. Mr. Mercer’s senior management and operational experience in a number of technology companies.

William Zeitler

Mr. William M. Zeitler has been appointed as Independent Director of QLogic Corp., effective September 9, 2010. Mr. Zeitler has served as a consultant in the technology industry since his retirement from International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) in 2008. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Zeitler spent over 35 years at IBM in various roles, including his last assignment as Senior Vice President and Group Executive — Servers, Storage and Semiconductor Groups of the IBM Systems and Technology Group.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

H. Desai

2,169,650

Simon Biddiscombe

2,612,080

Jean Hu

1,462,810

Roger Klein

1,209,580

Robert Crawford

1,446,330

Perry Mulligan

1,030,810

George Wells

--

Christine King

--

Balakrishnan Iyer

--

Kathryn Lewis

--

D. Scott Mercer

--

William Zeitler

--
As Of 31 Mar 2012

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