| Mr William T. Morrow
| Mr William T. Morrow has been a director at Broadcom Corp since June 2008. Mr Morrow was Chief Executive Officer of Clearwire Corporation, a provider of wireless broadband networks in the U.S. and internationally, from March 2009 to March 2011. From September 2008 to March 2009, Mr Morrow managed his personal investments. From July 2007 to September 2008, Mr Morrow served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Pacific Gas & Electric Company, a public utility company and subsidiary of PG&E Corporation and from August 2006 to June 2007, he served as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Pacific Gas and Electric, he served in a number of senior executive positions at international mobile communications group Vodafone Ltd. and Vodafone Group PLC, including Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone, Europe, from May 2006 to July 2006, and President of Vodafone KK in Japan, from April 2005 through April 2006. Mr Morrow also served in senior executive positions in Europe and Japan for wireless telecommunications carrier Airtouch International, including a Brussels-based assignment as Chief Technology Officer for AirTouch’s Belgacom Mobile-Proximus. Mr Morrow is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and a graduate of Condie College, where he received an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, and National University in San Diego, California, where he received a B.A. degree in Business Administration. |
| Ms Nancy H. Handel
| Ms Nancy H. Handel has been a director since November 2005. Ms Handel was the Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Applied Materials, Inc., a supplier of equipment and services to the global semiconductor, flat panel and solar industries, from October 2004 through November 2006. From November 2006 to January 2007, Ms Handel served as Senior Vice President, Finance at Applied Materials and assisted in the transition with their new chief financial officer. She retired from Applied Materials in January 2007. She is a director at Broadcom Corp since November 23, 2005. From 1985 to October 2004 she served in various key financial leadership positions at Applied Materials, including four years as Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, and 13 years as Treasurer. Ms Handel played a significant role in managing Applied Materials’ success on a global basis. At Applied Materials, Ms Handel provided direction on operations finance and public reporting, major financial transactions, such as global acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets activity, as well as major financial processes in the company, including establishing the financial risk management committee and providing leadership for various restructurings and ERP related business process engineering. Ms Handel set the “tone at the top” for a high integrity management culture and exercised broad responsibility for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. In 2006, Ms Handel held various financial management positions with Raychem Corporation, an electronics manufacturer, Crown Zellerbach Corporation, a paper manufacturing company, and two private early stage companies. She received a B.S. in Economics from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from The Ohio State University, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. |
| Mr Henry Samueli
| Mr Henry Samueli, Ph.D has been elected as chairman of the board of Broadcom Corp since May 17, 2012. Also he is a co-founder and since December 2009 has served as our Chief Technical Officer at Broadcom Corp. The Office of the CTO is responsible for driving the vision of Broadcom’s research and development activities as well as helping coordinate corporate-wide engineering development strategies. Since our inception, Dr. Samueli has been instrumental in leading the direction of our innovations and developing and implementing strategies that have secured the company’s position as a major technology innovator and a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Dr. Samueli served as a technology advisor to Broadcom from May 2008 through December 2009. He previously served as a director and as Chief Technical Officer from Broadcom’s inception in 1991 through May 2008, as Chairman of our Board of Directors from May 2003 through May 2008, and as Co-Chairman of the Board from inception until May 2003. Dr. Samueli is also a Distinguished Adjunct Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Irvine. He was the Chief Scientist and one of the founders of PairGain Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, and he consulted for PairGain from 1988 to 1994. Dr. Samueli received a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Samueli is a named inventor in 67 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is amongst the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. |
| Mr John W. Stanton
| Mr. Stanton has served as a director of Clearwire since November 2008, as Executive Chairman of the Board since August 2011, as Interim Chief Executive Officer from March 2011 to August 2011 and as Chairman of the Board from January 2011 to August 2011. He joined the Microsoft board in July 2014. He has served as Managing Director of Trilogy Partners LLC, a private investment firm, Trilogy International Partners LLC, an operator of wireless systems in South and Central America, and Trilogy Equity Partners LLC, an investor in small wireless-related companies, since 2005. Mr. Stanton served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Western Wireless Corporation, a wireless telecommunications company, from 1992 until shortly after its acquisition by Alltel Corporation in 2005. Mr. Stanton was Chairman and a director of T-Mobile USA, formerly VoiceStream Wireless Corporation (“T-Mobile USA”), a mobile telecommunications company, from 1994 to 2004 and was Chief Executive Officer of T-Mobile USA from 1998 to 2003. Mr. Stanton is a member of the board of directors of Columbia Sportswear, Inc., a manufacturer of active outdoor apparel and footwear. |
| Mr G. Steven Burrill
| G. Steven Burrill has been a member of the Board since August 2006. Mr. Burrill also previously served as a member of the Board from August 2000 to August 2005. Since January 1997, he has served as the chief executive officer of Burrill & Company LLC, a merchant bank that he founded that provides venture capital, media and strategic partnering services and focuses on biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, devices, human healthcare and related medical technologies, healthcare delivery, nutraceuticals and wellness, agricultural biotechnology, industrial biotechnology and biofuels. Prior to founding Burrill & Company, Mr. Burrill spent 27 years with Ernst & Young LLP, including the last 17 as a partner of the firm. He is currently a member of the board of directors of each of the publicly-traded companies Depomed, Inc. and Novadaq Technologies, Inc. Within the past five years, he served on the board of directors of each of the publicly-traded companies Third Wave Technologies, Inc. (acquired by Hologic, Inc.) and Pharmasset, Inc. (acquired by Gilead Sciences, Inc.). |
| Mr Felix J Baker
| Mr Felix J Baker has been a director of Alexion since June 2015. Mr Baker has served as one of our directors since July 2003 and as our lead independent director since February 2005. Mr Baker is a Managing Partner of Baker Brothers Investments which he and his brother, Julian Baker, founded in 2000. Dr. Baker’s firm manages Baker Brothers Investments, a family of long-term investment funds for major university endowments and foundations, which are focused on publicly traded life sciences companies. Dr. Baker’s career as a fund-manager began in 1994 when he co-founded a biotechnology investing partnership with the Tisch Family. Dr. Baker holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Immunology from Stanford University, where he also completed two years of medical school. In addition to Seattle Genetics, Dr. Baker currently serves as a director of Ardea BioSciences, Inc. and Synageva, Inc., both of which are publicly-traded biotechnology companies. In addition, Dr. Baker previously served as a director of AnorMED Inc., Conjuchem, Inc., Neurogen Corporation and Trimeris, Inc., all of which were publicly-traded companies during Dr. Baker’s service as a director. |
| Mr Jonathan Rubinstein
| Jonathan J. Rubinstein has served as a director since May 2013. Mr. Rubinstein was Senior Vice President, Product Innovation for the Personal Systems Group of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) from July 2011 to January 2012 and Senior Vice President and General Manager, Palm Global Business Unit of HP from July 2010 to July 2011. Mr. Rubinstein was Chief Executive Officer and President of Palm, Inc. (Palm) from June 2009 until its acquisition by HP in July 2010 and Chairman of the Board of Palm from October 2007 through the date of acquisition. He was Senior Vice President, iPod Division of Apple Inc. (Apple) from 2003 to 2006 and Senior Vice President, Hardware Engineering of Apple from 1997 to 2003. Mr. Rubinstein is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Mr. Rubinstein has been a director of Amazon.com, Inc. since December 2010. Mr. Rubinstein holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. degree in computer science from Colorado State University. |
| Ms Patricia Stonesifer
| Patricia Q. Stonesifer has been a director at Amazon since February 1997. Ms. Stonesifer has served as the President and CEO of Martha’s Table, a non-profit, since April 2013. She served as Chair of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution from January 2009 to January 2012 and as Vice Chair from January 2012 to January 2013. From September 2008 to January 2012, she served as senior advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a private philanthropic organization, where she was Chief Executive Officer from January 2006 to September 2008 and President and Co-chair from June 1997 to January 2006. Since September 2009, she has also served as a private philanthropy advisor. From 1988 to 1997, she worked in many roles at Microsoft Corporation, including as a Senior Vice President of the Interactive Media Division, and also served as the Chairwoman of the Gates Learning Foundation from 1997 to 1999. |
| Mr William Gordon
| Mr. Gordon has been a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, since June 2008. Mr. Gordon is a co-founder of Electronic Arts Inc. and served as its Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer from March 1998 to May 2008. Mr. Gordon serves on the boards of Lockerz, Inc., a web-based social commerce company; Klout, Inc., a social media company; Amazon.com, Inc., a multinational e-commerce company; Zazzle Inc., a web-based custom products company; and Mevio, Inc. He was also a founding director at ngmoco, LLC (acquired by DeNA Co. Ltd. in 2010) and Audible, Inc. (acquired by Amazon.com, Inc. in 2008). Mr. Gordon was awarded the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 and held the game industry’s first endowed chair in game design at USC School of Cinematic Arts. He earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Yale University, where he serves on the President’s Council. |
| Mr Jeffrey Preston Bezos
| Jeffrey P. Bezos, age 48, has been Chairman of the Board since founding the Company in 1994 and Chief Executive Officer since May 1996. Mr. Bezos served as President from founding until June 1999 and again from October 2000 to the present. |
| Mr Tom Alberg
| Tom A. Alberg, age 72, has been a director at Amazon.com Inc since June 1996. Mr. Alberg has been a managing director of Madrona Venture Group, LLC, a venture capital firm, since September 1999, and a principal in Madrona Investment Group, LLC, a private investment firm, since January 1996. |
| Mr Daniel J. Smoke
| Mr Daniel J. Smoke is a member of board of directors at Rofin Sinar Technologies Inc since August 2003. Most recently Mr. Smoke was the Chief Financial Officer of JAC Products Inc from January 2010 to January 2011. Previously he was the CFO of Truck Bodies and Equipment International, Inc. from 2006 to 2007; B.R. Lee Industries, Inc. from 2005 to 2006; and Marco Wood Products Inc. from 2004 to 2005. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Smoke was in a private consulting practice. Mr. Smoke served as Vice President and CFO of Bucyrus International, Inc. from 1996 to 1999. Prior to that, he served as Vice President and CFO for the Folger Adam Company from 1995 to 1996. Mr. Smoke held various positions at Eagle Industries, Inc. from 1986 to 1994, including Corporate Controller, Vice President of Finance, Senior Vice- President and Group Executive, and Division President. Mr. Smoke has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from Washington State University and a Master of Science Degree in Accounting from California State University. |
| Mr Carl F. Baasel
| Mr Carl F. Baasel is a member of board of directors at Rofin Sinar Technologies Inc since October 2000, following the Company's acquisition of a majority stake in Carl Baasel Lasertechnik GmbH, a company that Mr Baasel founded in 1975. Mr Baasel served as that company's Managing Director until September 2001, when it was transformed into a limited partnership under the name Carl Baasel Lasertechnik GmbH & Co. KG. From September 2001 until June 2008, he has served as Managing Director of this limited partnership, which is a fully owned subsidiary of the Company. Mr Baasel holds a Master's Degree in Physics from the Technical University of Munich. |
| Mr Ralph E. Reins
| Mr Ralph E. Reins is a member of board of directors at Rofin Sinar Technologies Inc since September 1996. Mr Reins was a Director of Group Dekko until June 2009 and of Weirton Steel until December 12, 2002. He was Chief Executive Officer of Qualitor Inc. until July 1, 2002 and remained as Chairman of Qualitor Inc. until it was sold in December 2004. Mr Reins served as President and Chief Executive Officer of AP Parts International, Inc. from 1995 to 1997, as President and Chief Executive Officer of Envirotest Systems Corp. in 1995, as President of Allied Signal Automotive from 1991 through 1994 and as President of United Technologies Automotive from 1990 to 1991. Prior to that, he was Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer of Mack Truck from 1989 to 1990 and President and Chief Executive Officer of ITT Automotive from 1985 to 1989. Mr Reins is a member of the Company's Audit, Compensation, and Nominating Committees. |
| Mr Thomas Merk
| Mr Thomas Merk is a member of board of directors at Rofin Sinar Technologies Inc since July 1, 2015. He has been Chief Operating Officer of the Rofin Micro Business since December 2005 and the Rofin Marking Business since July 2006, and has been a Managing Director of Carl Baasel Lasertechnik GmbH & Co. KG. since May 2000. He started his career in 1989 at Boehringer Werkzeugmaschinen Vertriebs GmbH, Germany, and remained there until 2000, most recently serving as sales director. Mr. Merk holds a Master's Degree in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Stuttgart, Germany. |
| Mr Peter Wirth
| Dr Peter Wirth is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Rofin Sinar Technologies Inc since September 1996. In October 2009, Dr Wirth retired as General Manager of RSL and continues to serve as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Dr Wirth was previously the Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company from September 1996 until May 2005. He has also served as General Manager of RSL from October 1994 until September 2009. From 1991 until October 1994, Dr Wirth was President of Rofin-Sinar Inc. He joined RSL in 1979 as Sales Manager for industrial lasers, and became Director, Sales and Marketing in 1983. He holds a Master's Degree and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Technical University in Munich, Germany. |
| Mr D. Scott Mercer
| Mr D. Scott Mercer serves as independent director at SanDisk Corp since September 17, 2013. He has been a director of Polycom since November 2007. From April 2008 to April 2011, Mr. Mercer served as the Chief Executive Officer of Conexant Systems, Inc., a semiconductor solutions company that provides products for imaging, video, audio and Internet connectivity applications. Mr. Mercer also served on the board of directors of Conexant from May 2003 to April 2011 and served as Chairman of the board of directors of Conexant from August 2008 to April 2011. Mr. Mercer served as interim Chief Executive Officer of Adaptec, Inc., a provider of software and hardware-based storage solutions, from May 2005 through November 2005. Mr. Mercer also served as a senior vice president and advisor to the chief executive officer of Western Digital Corporation, a supplier of disk drives to the personal computer and consumer electronics industries, from February 2004 through December 2004. Prior to that, Mr. Mercer was a Senior Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer of Western Digital Corporation from October 2001 through January 2004. 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, Mr. Mercer held various senior operating and financial positions with Dell, Inc. In addition to Conexant, Mr. Mercer 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, and Palm, Inc. from June 2005 until July 2010 when Palm was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company. Mr. Mercer has served as a director of QLogic Corp. since September 2010. He holds a B.S. in Accounting from California Polytechnic University. |
| Mr Scott Ford
| Mr Ford is a Member and Chief Executive Officer of Westrock Group, LLC (a privately-held commodity trading firm in Little Rock, Arkansas) which he founded in 2013. Westrock Group operates Westrock Coffee Company (a coffee exporter, trader, importer, and roaster), founded by Mr. Ford in 2009 and Westrock Trading, LLC (a commodity trading business), founded by Mr. Ford in 2011. Mr. Ford previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Alltel Corporation (a provider of wireless voice and data communications services) from 2002 to 2009, and served as an executive member of Alltel Corporation’s board of directors from 1996 to 2009. He also served as Alltel Corporation’s President and Chief Operating Officer from 1998 to 2002. Mr. Ford led Alltel through several major business transformations, culminating with the sale of the company to Verizon Wireless in 2009. Mr. Ford received his B.S. in finance from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He was elected a Director of AT&T in 2012. He is the Chairperson of the Corporate Development and Finance Committee and a member of the Executive Committee and the Human Resources Committee. Mr. Ford is a Director of Bear State Financial, Inc. |
| Mr Thomas Mcinerney
| Thomas J. McInerney, age 47, has served as a director of ILG since May 2008. Mr. McInerney served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of IAC from January 2005 through March 2012. Mr. McInerney previously served as Chief Executive Officer of IAC's Retailing sector from January 2003 through December 2005. Prior to this time, Mr. McInerney served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ticketmaster (prior to it becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of IAC in January 2003) and its predecessor company, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, Inc., since May 1999. Prior to joining Ticketmaster, Mr. McInerney worked at Morgan Stanley, most recently as a Principal. Mr. McInerney currently serves as a director of HSN Inc., a television and online retailer and of Yahoo! Inc., a digital media company. |
| Mr David Filo
| Mr. Filo, a founder of Yahoo! and Chief Yahoo, has served as an officer of Yahoo! since March 1995, and served as a director of Yahoo! from its founding through February 1996. Mr. Filo is involved in guiding Yahoo!’s vision, is involved in many key aspects of the business at a strategic and operational level, and is a stalwart of the Company’s employee culture and morale. Mr. Filo co-developed Yahoo! in 1994 while working towards his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, and co-founded Yahoo! in 1995. Mr. Filo holds a Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Tulane University and a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. |
