People: Semtech Corp (SMTC.O)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Rockell Hankin

65 2006 Independent Chairman of the Board

Mohan Maheswaran

48 2006 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

James Burra

69 2007 Independent Vice Chairman of the Board

Emeka Chukwu

49 2011 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President - Finance

Gary Beauchamp

52 2012 Senior Vice President, General Manager - Gennum Product Group

Alain Dantec

62 2011 Senior Vice President, General Manager - Wireless and Sensing Product Group

James Kim

55 2009 Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales and Marketing

Kenneth Barry

64 2011 Senior Vice President - Human Resources

Charles Harper

64 Senior Vice President - Strategy and Systems Innovation Group

Jeffrey Pohlman

62 2007 Senior Vice President - Protection Products Group

J. Michael Wilson

56 2011 Senior Vice President - Quality and Reliability

Asaf Silberstein

42 2011 Vice President - Worldwide Operations

Jonathan Hahn

53 2010 Vice President - Information Technology, Chief Information Officer

Randall Holliday

62 2008 Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary

Sameer Vuyyuru

40 2011 Vice President, General Manager - Advanced Communications Product Group

Carmelo Santoro

2013 Director

Sylvia Summers

59 2013 Director

Glen Antle

73 2002 Independent Director

Wilford Baker

69 2006 Independent Director

Bruce Edwards

59 2006 Independent Director

James Lindstrom

66 2002 Independent Director

John Piotrowski

78 2002 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Rockell Hankin

Mr. Rockell N. Hankin is an Independent Chairman of the Board of Semtech Corporation. He is Private investor from January 2006 to date, Chief Executive Officer and Principal, Hankin & Co., a diversified business advisory and investment banking firm from June 1986 through December 2005. Director of a private company, Vice Chair of the Kavli Foundation. Mr. Hankin has spoken on corporate governance issues including at the Duke Capital Markets Director's Education Institute, UCLA's Director Certification Program, the University of Maryland Directors' Institute and various other corporate governance programs.

Mohan Maheswaran

Mr. Mohan R. Maheswaran is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Semtech Corporation, since April 2006. He was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intersil Corporation, a company that designs and manufactures analog semiconductors, from June 2002 until March 2006, responsible for managing and overseeing the design, development, applications and marketing functions for Intersil's Analog Signal Processing Business unit. From June 2001 to May 2002, Vice President of Marketing, Business Development and Corporate Strategy for Elantec Semiconductor, Inc., a company that designed and manufactured analog integrated circuits before its acquisition by Intersil in May 2002. Previously employed by Elantec Semiconductor as Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Strategy; by Allayer Communications, a communications IC startup acquired by Broadcom; and by IBM Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard and Nortel Communications.

James Burra

Mr. James P. Burra is an Independent Vice Chairman of the Board of Semtech Corporation. He has been Chief Executive Officer and majority owner of Endural LLC, a manufacturer of a proprietary line of vacuum formed, high density polyethylene containers, since October 2006 and Chief Executive Officer of predecessors since 1989, Former director of Earl Scheib, Inc., an operator of retail automobile paint and body shops. Former director of Hoover Group, Inc., former parent of Endural LLC.

Emeka Chukwu

Mr. Emeka Chukwu is Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President - Finance of Semtech Corporation. Mr. Chukwu was promoted to Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer in August 2011. He previously served as the Company's Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer from November 2006. He previously had been employed in various financial positions at Intersil Corporation, a company that designs and manufactures analog semiconductors, since 2002. His most recent position at Intersil was Vice President, Finance, in which capacity he served since February 2006 with responsibility for all financial management affairs of the corporation's business units and worldwide operations. He served as the Controller of Intersil's Analog Signal Processing Group and Worldwide Operations from May 2002 through January 2006, responsible for financial planning, budget management, and related financial oversight functions. From July 1997 through April 2002, he was the Corporate Controller of Elantec Semiconductor, Inc., a manufacturer of analog integrated circuits that was acquired by Intersil in 2002.

Gary Beauchamp

Mr. Gary M. Beauchamp is Senior Vice President, General Manager - Gennum Product Group of Semtech Corporation since March 2012. Mr. Beauchamp's group provides high-performance analog solutions to the video broadcast, video surveillance, and data communications markets. Prior to his role at Semtech, Mr. Beauchamp was Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mixed Signal and Optical Products, for Gennum Corporation, which he joined in 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, Mr. Beauchamp held several management positions at COM DEV International.

Alain Dantec

Mr. Alain Dantec is Senior Vice President, General Manager - Wireless and Sensing Product Group of Semtech Corporation. Mr. Dantec was promoted to Senior Vice President/General Manager of Advanced Communications and Sensing Group in June 2007. He previously served as the Company's Vice President of Wireless and Sensing Products from June 2005. He joined the company as the result of the Company's June 2005 acquisition of XEMICS S.A. a privately held company engaged in design, manufacturing and sales of ultra-low power analog, mixed signal and radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits, where he served as Chief Executive Officer since 2001. Prior to joining Xemics, Mr. Dantec was Chief Executive Officer of Atmel Nantes, a subsidiary of Atmel in France, from 1996 to 2001. He has more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in a broad range of technical and management positions within such companies as Atmel, the Temic Group, Harris, and Alcatel.

James Kim

Mr. James J. Kim is Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales and Marketing of Semtech Corporation, since November 2009. Mr. Kim was appointed Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing in February 2007, after serving as Vice President of Global Handset Sales since March 2004. He was Director of Sales and Marketing for Korea and Japan from April 2000 to March 2004. He was Marketing Manager from May 1997 to April 2000. He has also held various engineering positions since beginning his employment with the Company in 1986.

Kenneth Barry

Mr. Kenneth J. Barry is Senior Vice President - Human Resources of Semtech Corporation since November 2011. He previously served as the Vice President of Human Resources from December 2006. From August 2004 to September 2006, he was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Move.com with responsibility for all human resources and corporate ethics programs for North America. He was the Senior Vice President Human Resources for SuperConductor Technologies from 2002 until July 2004, responsible for all global human resource, corporate ethics, and environmental, health and safety programs. He has more than 30 years of experience working in a broad range of industries, including positions with Nortel, Harman International, and Exel Logistics.

Charles Harper

Mr. Charles E. Harper is Senior Vice President - Strategy and Systems Innovation Group Semtech Corporation. This group was formed following the acquisition of Sierra Monolithics, Inc. by Semtech Corporation on December 9, 2009. Most recently, Mr. Harper was Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Sierra Monolithics, Inc. since 1988. Prior to founding Sierra Monolithics, Inc., he worked for several high technology companies in the Southern California area. He served as Manager of Advanced Technology Development at Magnavox, Director of Business Planning at Mattel, Assistant Director of Management Services at Lear Sieger, and held several engineering and executive management positions at the Garrett/Allied Signal Corporation.

Jeffrey Pohlman

Mr. Jeffrey T. Pohlman is Senior Vice President - Protection Products Group of Semtech Corporation, since June 2007. He served as Vice President of Protection Products since 1998. He has worked for the Company in various engineering roles since 1988. Mr. Pohlman was previously employed by Supertex Inc., Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Inc., and National Semiconductor in various technical and managerial roles.

J. Michael Wilson

Mr. J. Michael Wilson is Senior Vice President - Quality and Reliability of Semtech Corporation. Mr. Wilson is Senior Vice President, Quality and Reliability, a position he has held since November 2011. Mr. Wilson was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in May 2008 after serving as Senior Vice President of Power Management Products since June 2007 and serving as Vice President of that unit since 2001. He joined the company as the result of the 1995 acquisition of ECI Semiconductor where he was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry in a broad range of technical and management positions.

Asaf Silberstein

Mr. Asaf Silberstein is Vice President - Worldwide Operations of Semtech Corporation since March 2011. Prior to that, Mr. Silberstein was Vice President, Operations, a position he held since he joined the Company in December 2010. Prior to joining the Company, he was employed from 2007 to 2010 at Microsemi Corporation as Vice President Global Operations in its Analog Mixed Signal Division. Prior to Microsemi, he was Vice President Operations from 2000 to 2005 and Chief Operating Officer from 2005 to 2007 at Powerdsine, Israel, when Powerdsine was acquired by Microsemi. He has also previously served in various positions at 3Com and ECI Telecom.

Jonathan Hahn

Mr. Jonathan Hahn is Vice President - Information Technology, Chief Information Officer of Semtech Corporation. Mr. Hahn joined the Company in May 2010 as Vice President Information Technology and Chief Information Officer. Prior to Semtech, he served as Chief Information Officer at Telmar Network Technology since 2001. Mr. Hahn's 25 years of IT experience and Systems knowledge also includes positions held at such companies as Nexgenics, Inc., EDS, E. Solutions Consulting, Cerplex Inc. and TRW, Inc.

Randall Holliday

Mr. Randall H. Holliday is Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Semtech Corporation. Mr. Holliday joined in October 2008 and was appointed Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary in November 2008. Prior to Semtech, he served as General Counsel and Secretary at Power-One, Inc., a manufacturer of power management and power control products, from 2001 through 2008, where he had responsibility for worldwide legal affairs. From 1994 through 2000, he held the position of Secretary and General Counsel with Xircom, Inc. His more than 30 years of experience in the legal field also includes positions with Abex Aerospace (division of Pneumo Abex Corp.), Johnson Controls, Inc., Manpower Incorporated, and service as a Staff Judge Advocate with the U.S. Air Force.

Sameer Vuyyuru

Mr. Sameer Vuyyuru is Vice President, General Manager - Advanced Communications Product Group of Semtech Corporation since November 2011. His group focuses on advanced technologies that enable core and access networking infrastructure to accommodate the ongoing expansion in bandwidth demand. From 2006 to 2011, he served as Vice President of Marketing. Before joining the Company, Mr. Vuyyuru held multiple product line director positions at Intersil. Prior to that, he spent eight years in product line and design positions at Texas Instruments. His nearly 20-year career has focused primarily on analog and digital signal processing semiconductors.

Carmelo Santoro

Dr. Carmelo Santoro has been appointed as Director of Semtech Corporation. Dr. Santoro is a business consultant with Santoro Technology Associates, which provides general management, strategic planning, marketing and operations services for the computer hardware and software, semiconductor, disk drive, networking, technology services, biotechnology and financial services industries. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Attensity, Inc., a provider of social analytics and engagement solutions. His prior experience includes executive positions with Platinum Software Corporation and Silicon Systems. Dr. Santoro currently serves on the boards of several privately-held companies. He earned his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Physics from Manhattan College.

Sylvia Summers

Ms. Sylvia Summers has been appointed as Director of Semtech Corp. Ms. Summers has experience in engineering, business development and leadership, including serving as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Trident Microsystems from 2007 to 2011. Prior to that experience, she held senior positions at Spansion LTD, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Storagetek. Ms. Summers currently serves on the Board of Directors for Headwaters, Inc., a public company providing product, technology and services to the heavy construction materials, light building products, and energy industries. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique Feminine in Paris, France, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Thomson CSF, France.

Glen Antle

Mr. Glen M. Antle is an Independent Director of Semtech Corporation, since 2002. He has been Acting Chief Executive Officer of Trident Microsystems, Inc. from November 2006 to October 2007. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Quickturn Design Systems, Inc., an electronic design automation company, from June 1993 to June 1999. Co-founded ECAD, Inc., now Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of its Board of Directors from 1982 to 1988.

Wilford Baker

Mr. Wilford Dean Baker is an Independent Director of Semtech Corporation., since 2006. He has been President of NanoPrecision Holding Company, Inc., a privately held company engaged in the development and manufacture of ultra-precision machined mechanical components, since October 2007. Consultant to firms in the technology sector on program reviews as well as evaluations of technical, management and strategic matters since 1999. Previously served in a variety of leadership positions at Northrop Grumman Corporation, a defense contractor, including Vice-President and General Manager of the Defensive Systems Division, Vice-President and General Manager of Combat Support Systems, and Vice-President and TSSAM Program Manager for the Aircraft Division. He has been Director of NanoPrecision Holding Company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, NanoPrecision Products, Inc., and Data Display Products, a privately held provider of custom LED lighting products.

Bruce Edwards

Mr. Bruce C. Edwards is an Independent Director of Semtech Corporation, since 2006. He has been Executive Chairman Emeritus of Powerwave Technologies, Inc., a supplier of antenna systems, base station subsystems and coverage solutions to the wireless communications industry, since November 2007 and Executive Chairman from February 2005 through November 2007. Chief Executive Officer of Powerwave from February 1996 through February 2005. Previously held executive and financial positions at AST Research, Inc., a personal computer company, AMDAX Corporation, a manufacturer of RF modems, and public accounting firm Arthur Andersen and Co. He has been Director of Emulex Corporation. Also a director of Xirrus Corporation, a privately held company.

James Lindstrom

Mr. James T. Lindstrom is an Independent Director of Semtech Corporation, since 2002. He has been Independent business consultant, consulting since January 2012 as the Chief Financial Officer of Kilopass, Inc., a provider of embedded non-volatile memory IP products to the semiconductor industry. Retired from eSilicon Corporation in February 2011 where he served as Chief Financial Officer since March 2005. eSilicon Corporation designs, produces and manufactures ASIC products for original equipment manufacturers and fabless semiconductor companies. Previously held senior financial positions at AmmoCore Technology, Inc., Silicon Perspective Corporation and Cadence, EDA software companies, and C-Cube Microsystems, Inc. and Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, both semiconductor companies. He has been Director of Lexra, Inc., a private company, from 1999 until company dissolution in December 2009.

John Piotrowski

General John L. Piotrowski, USAF (Retired), is an Independent Director of Semtech Corporation since 2002. He has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Aerospace and Management Consulting, Inc., an aerospace and technology consulting company, since 1991. Consultant on National Security Programs to aerospace corporations, and advisor to the Air Force Research Lab, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Missile Defense Agency. Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) from 1995 through January 2000, then a consulting employee of SAIC until retirement in February 2004. Previously a senior advisor to the Program Manager for the Ground Based Missile Defense System, a member of the Defense Science Board, as well as consultant and advisor for Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Los Alamos National Lab. Retired from the United States Air Force in 1990 after serving as Commander-in-Chief (CINC) North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and CINC U.S. Space Command, and Air Force Vice Chief of Staff.

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