People: Sequans Communications SA (SQNS.N)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Georges Karam

 49 2003 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President

Deborah Choate

 48 2007 Chief Financial Officer

Hikmet Sari

 2011 Chief Scientist

Eddy Tang

 52 2005 Vice President - Manufacturing Operations

Sylvie Deschamps

 48 2010 Vice President - Worldwide Sales

T. Craig Miller

 45 2011 Vice President - Worldwide Marketing

Bertrand Debray

 46 2003 Vice President - Engineering

Hugues Waldburger

 47 2008 Vice President - Product Line Management

Rudy Leser

 2011 Vice President - Business Development

Gilles Delfassy

 53 2012 Director

Hubert de Pesquidoux

 46 2011 Independent Director

James Patterson

 43 2011 Independent Director

Dominique Pitteloud

 49 2005 Independent Director

Alok Sharma

 2011 Independent Director

Zvi Slonimsky

 61 2006 Independent Director
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Name Description

Georges Karam

 Dr. Georges Karam is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sequans Communications SA as of 2003. Before founding Sequans, Dr. Karam was vice president of cable access at Juniper Networks, running the cable engineering and marketing departments and managing the cable sales launch in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. He joined Juniper Networks when the company acquired Pacific Broadband Communications (PBC), where he was vice president of engineering and general manager for Europe. Dr. Karam has served in a variety of senior management positions at Alcatel, SAGEM and Philips. He is a senior member of IEEE, has authored numerous technical and scientific papers and holds several patents in digital communications. Dr. Karam holds a Ph.D. from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris.

Deborah Choate

 Ms. Deborah Choate is Chief Financial Officer of Sequans Communications SA., since July 2007. Prior to joining Sequans she was chief financial officer at Esmertec AG from September 2005 to June 2007 and at Wavecom SA, from August 1998 to August 2004, and vice president of finance at Platinum Equity from October 2004 to September 2005. Earlier in her career, she was an audit partner with Ernst & Young. Ms. Choate has 26 years of experience in management, finance and accounting, including over 12 years working with technology companies, in particular communications hardware, software and services. Ms. Choate holds a BS from the University of California at Berkeley.

Hikmet Sari

 Dr. Hikmet Sari is Chief Scientist at Sequans Communications SA as of 2011. He has published over 180 journal and conference papers, holds over 20 patents, and has been a guest speaker at events in Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific region, and Latin America. He is an IEEE Fellow and a lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society and has received the Andre Blondel Medal and the Edwin H. Armstrong Award. He has been the editor of several international journals and was technical program chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications. Prior to joining Sequans, he held scientific and key management positions at Philips, SAGEM, Alcatel, Pacific Broadband Communications, and Juniper Networks. He is a professor and head of the Telecommunications Department at SUPELEC in France.

Eddy Tang

 Mr. Eddy Tang is Vice President - Manufacturing Operations of Sequans Communications SA., since 2005. Before joining Sequans, from 2003 to 2005, Mr. Tang was with STATSChipPAC Ltd., a provider of outsource assembly and test services, where he was a senior manager in the company’s corporate strategy organization. He was responsible for assessing the future needs of the outsourcing industry and making strategic recommendations to upper management. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Tang held various management positions at Singapore Technologies Assembly and Test Services (STATS Ltd.), including director of marketing in outsource assembly and test services. He started his career in 1982 as a sales engineer at Jebson Company, Siemens Division in Hong Kong. In 1984, he joined Fairchild Semiconductor’s manufacturing operations in Singapore. He brings with him more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Mr. Tang holds a Bachelor of Engineering from National University of Singapore and an MBA from University of Southern Australia.

Sylvie Deschamps

 Ms. Sylvie Deschamps is Vice President - Worldwide Sales of Sequans Communications SA., since March 2010. Ms. Deschamps leads global sales and customer support organizations. Prior to joining Sequans, from June 2009 to February 2010, Ms. Deschamps was a founding shareholder and member of the investment committee of Succes Europe Fund (France). From 1988 to June 2009, Ms. Deschamps held a number of positions at Texas Instruments, a global semiconductor company, where she most recently was member of the French board of directors from 1996 to June 2009 and general manager of strategic alliances for the Wireless Terminal Business Unit, managing IP strategic sourcing from 2006 to June 2009. Before that, she ran the GSM/GPRS/EDGE Wireless Business Unit where she had worldwide operational and financial responsibility. Ms. Deschamps holds a PhD from the University of Nice (France).

T. Craig Miller

 Mr. T. Craig Miller is Vice President - Worldwide Marketing of Sequans Communications SA as of 2011. He was first appointed Vice President - Marketing and Business Development in June 2009. Mr. Miller is responsible for coordinating marketing strategy and business development activities. He has experience in product management, marketing, strategic planning and business development over the course of his twenty-plus year career. Prior to joining Sequans, Mr. Miller was vice president of product management and marketing at NextWave Wireless from September 2006 to March 2009, where he was responsible for strategic marketing, product planning, product management, applications engineering and marketing communications for a portfolio of WiMAX and LTE chipsets. Prior to NextWave, from July 1988 to May 2006 he held positions in product marketing, strategy, business development and product engineering at Intel Corporation and was director of marketing for the Wireless Networking Group. Mr. Miller holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Arizona State University.

Bertrand Debray

 Mr. Bertrand Debray is Vice President, Engineering of Sequans Communications SA. He has served as vice president, engineering since the company was founded in 2003. Before joining Sequans, Mr. Debray was director of hardware and ASIC development in the cable product division at Juniper Networks. He joined Juniper Networks after the company acquired Pacific Broadband Communications, where he played the same role and was significantly involved in developing the cable product and team. Mr. Debray has held technical and management positions at Alcatel. He has 15 years experience in project development covering all access technologies, including wireless, satellite and cable. Mr. Debray holds a MSE from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris.

Hugues Waldburger

 Mr. Hugues Waldburger is Vice President - Product Line Management of Sequans Communications SA., since June 2008. From December 2003 to June 2008, Mr. Waldburger was with Wavecom SA, where he held various positions, including director of performance and validation, director of program management, and member of the steering committee. Prior to joining Wavecom he led the product integration program for cable networks at Pacific Broadband Communications from June 2000 to November 2003, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2001. Earlier, Mr. Waldburger held technical management positions for embedded systems with the electronics group, Thales. Mr. Waldburger has more than 20 years of experience in embedded systems and technology. Mr. Waldburger holds a MSE from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris.

Rudy Leser

 Mr. Rudy Leser is Vice President - Business Development at Sequans Communications SA as of September 6, 2011. He is responsible for establishing and managing Sequans’ relationships with mobile operators and other key players in the global wireless ecosystem. He has more than 20 years’ experience managing business development for tier 1 and 2 telecom carriers and telecom equipment manufacturers. In his role, he contributes to Sequans strategic planning process and supports the activities of Sequans’ worldwide sales organization. He joined the Comapny after a ten-year career at Alvarion, where he was corporate vice president of strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Alvarion, he was on the management team at Floware, where he helped to facilitate the merger of BreezeCom and Floware, which became Alvarion in 2001. He graduated from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science, both in Aerospace Engineering.

Gilles Delfassy

 Mr. Gilles Delfassy has been appointed as Director of Sequans Communications SA., effective June 28, 2012. Delfassy was most recently president and CEO of ST-Ericsson, a supplier of semiconductors to top-tier handset manufacturers, at the helm from 2009 to 2011. Previously, he spent 28 years of his career at Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) where he created and ran the Wireless business and served as senior vice president and executive officer of the company. Under his leadership at TI, the company developed the OMAP(TM) multimedia platform and became the world's number one supplier of semiconductors to the wireless industry with its chips inside more than half of the world's cellular phones. After he retired from TI in 2007 and before joining ST-Ericsson, Delfassy was an advisor to many high-tech companies and served on several corporate boards.

Hubert de Pesquidoux

 Mr. Hubert de Pesquidoux is an Independent Director of Sequans Communications SA., since March 2011. Since November 2009, Mr. de Pesquidoux has served as Chief Executive Officer of HDP Consulting, a consulting company. From 1991 until December 2009, Mr. de Pesquidoux held various positions at the telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent SA (and its predecessor, Alcatel S.A. and its affiliates), where he served as Chief Financial Officer from November 2007 until December 2008 and as President of the Enterprise business from November 2006 until December 2008. Mr. de Pesquidoux’s recent positions also include President of Alcatel North America from June 2003 until November 2006. Mr. de Pesquidoux also serves as a director of Tekelec and currently serves, or has served, as a director or member of the advisory board of a number of private companies. Mr. de Pesquidoux holds a Master in Law from University of Nancy II, a Master in Economics and Finance from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, a DESS in International Affairs from University of Paris Dauphine and was a laureate in the “Concours Général de Droit”.

James Patterson

 Mr. James Patterson is an Independent Director of Sequans Communications SA., since January 2011. Mr. Patterson is currently the chief executive officer and co-founder of Mobile Symmetry, a mobile and database applications company. Prior to that Mr. Patterson held various leadership roles during his 14 year tenure with Sprint, including President of Wholesale Services from 2008 to 2009, Vice President of Cable Solutions from 2005 to 2008, Vice President of Carrier Markets and of Network Access Management from 2001 to 2005, and Vice President of Sprint E|Solutions Finance from 2000 to 2001. Prior to Sprint, Mr. Patterson was a consultant to the financial services industry at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Mr. Patterson holds a bachelor’s in economics from Davidson College and an MBA from the University of Virginia. He has also studied British literature and economic history at Cambridge University and completed additional post-graduate work at Georgetown University.

Dominique Pitteloud

 Mr. Dominique Pitteloud is an Independent Director of Sequans Communications SA., since January 2005. Mr. Pitteloud has been a senior investment director at Endeavour Vision since 2007 and was a principal at Vision Capital from 2001 to 2007. Mr. Pitteloud is also an advisor to ASSIA, a provider of DSL management solutions. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Mr. Pitteloud was vice president of marketing at 8×8, a Silicon Valley semiconductor and telecommunication company, which he joined in 1999 as part of the acquisition of Odisei, a VoIP start-up from Sophia Antipolis, France. At Odisei, Mr. Pitteloud led the development of the company’s business and financing activities. Prior to Odisei, Mr. Pitteloud held various engineering and management positions at Logitech, including Vice President of the scanner and video camera business units. Mr. Pitteloud received a BS in telecommunications from the Swiss engineering school of Yverdon and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Alok Sharma

 Mr. Alok Sharma is an Independent Director of Sequans Communications SA., since January 2011. Since September 2010, Dr. Sharma has been an independent consultant. From February 2009 to August 2010, Dr. Sharma was the Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Alliances, at Aviat Networks (earlier known as Harris-Stratex), where he was responsible for corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, as well as the development of key strategic relationships for the company. Beginning in June 2004, Dr. Sharma was the founder and chief executive officer of Telsima Corporation, a provider of WiMAX broadband wireless solutions, until it was acquired by Aviat Networks in February 2009. Prior to Telsima, Dr. Sharma was the vice president and general manager of the Worldwide Cable Business at Juniper Networks from December 2001 to May 2003. Before Juniper Networks, Dr. Sharma was the founder and chief executive officer of Pacific Broadband Communications, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in December 2001. Prior to that, Dr. Sharma held senior management and technical positions at Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu/Amdahl, Integrated Device Technology and Siara Systems, a metro routing company acquired by Redback/Ericsson. Dr. Sharma holds a bachelor of engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Zvi Slonimsky

 Mr. Zvi Slonimsky is an Independent Director of Sequans Communications SA., since November 2006. Since 2005, Mr. Slonimsky has provided telecom and information technology consulting. He served as CEO of Alvarion Ltd. from 2001 to October 2005, following Alvarion’s establishment via merger of BreezeCOM and Floware in August 2001. Prior to the merger, Mr. Slonimsky was CEO of BreezeCom. Before that, he served as president and CEO of MTS Ltd. and was general manager of DSP Group, Israel. Earlier in his career, he held senior positions at several Israeli telecom companies, including C.Mer and Tadiran. Mr. Slonimsky also serves as the chairman or a director of numerous private companies and serves as a director Alvarion. Mr. Slonimsky holds a BSEE and a MSEE from the Technion Israel Institute for Technology and an MBA degree from Tel-Aviv University.

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