People: Maxim Integrated Products Inc (MXIM.OQ)

Mr. Robert Edward Grady is an Independent Director of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., since August 2008. Since October 2009, Mr. Grady has been a Managing Director at the Cheyenne Capital Fund, a private equity investment firm. Mr. Grady was appointed as Chairman of New Jersey's Council of Economic Advisors by Governor Chris Christie in January 2010, became a member of the New Jersey State Investment Council (which oversees the state's $75 billion pension fund) in June 2010, and was elected Chairman of the New Jersey State Investment Council in September 2010. Mr. Grady was a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm, from 2000 to 2009, where he served as a member of the firm's Management Committee; Chairman and Fund Head of Carlyle's U.S. venture and growth capital group, Carlyle Venture Partners (CVP); on the investment committees of CVP, Carlyle Asia Growth Partners, and Carlyle Europe Technology Partners; and as a director of multiple Carlyle portfolio companies. Mr. Grady is a former director of the National Venture Capital Association, and he served as Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association in 2006 and 2007. From 1993 to 2004, Mr. Grady served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a Lecturer in Public Management. In addition to Maxim Integrated, Mr. Grady currently serves on the board of directors of Stifel Financial Corp., a financial services firm focused on investment banking and asset management, and of several privately-held companies. Mr. Grady holds an A.B. degree from Harvard College and a M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.