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Dr.
David
Sear
has
been
a
Director
since
December
2003.
He
currently
is
an
independent
consultant.
Previously
he
was
Chief
Executive Officer of Forte Design Systems, an EDA software provider, from January 2006
through December 2006, and
previously was the Chief Executive Officer of
NeoAxiom, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer, from February 2004 through
December 2005. Prior to joining NeoAxiom, Dr. Sear was an independent consultant from
April 2003 to February 2004. Dr.
Sear also served as Chief Executive Officer
of Optics Networks from January 2002 to March 2003. Previously, he served as
President
and
Chief
Executive
Officer
of
Vaishali
Semiconductor
(1999
to
2002),
President
and
Chief
Operating
Officer
of
Quality Semiconductor (1997 to 1999), President and Chief Executive Officer of
Integrated Circuit Systems (1994 to 1997),
President and Chief Operating
Officer of Catalyst Semiconductor (1991 to 1994), as well as senior management positions with
Fujitsu
Microelectronics
(1987
to
1991)
and
ICI
Array
Technology
(1984
to
1987).
Dr.
Sear
earned
a
B.Sc.
in
Electronic
Engineering and a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics and Quantum Mechanics from the University
of London in London, England.
Dr.
John
Sprague
has
been
a
Director
since
July
1996
and
previously
from
January
1994
until
July
1995.
He
is
a
consultant
and was President of John L. Sprague Associates, a consulting company, from 1988 through
2002. He was President and
Chief Executive Officer of Sprague Electric
Company, a manufacturer of electronics components, from 1981 to 1987, and
served in various technical and operations positions with that company from 1959 to
1981. During the mid 1980s, when Dr.
Sprague was President & CEO,
Sprague Electric Company employed more than 10,000 persons worldwide and had revenues
in excess of $500 million. Dr. Sprague is a Director of MRA Labs, a private research and
development and electronic materials
company and was a director of SIPEX
Corporation, a publicly-traded semiconductor company from 1993 until May 2004. Dr.
Sprague
earned
an
A.B.
in
chemistry
from
Princeton
University
in
Princeton,
New
Jersey,
and
a
Ph.D.
in
chemistry
from
Stanford University in Stanford, California.
David
Wittrock
has
been
a
Director
since
June
2003.
Mr.
Wittrock
has
been
in
private
practice
as
a
tax
and
financial
consultant
to high technology and healthcare companies since October 2002. Previously, he was Vice
President, Finance and Business
Affairs for Rioport, Inc., an applications
service provider for digital music distribution, from 2000 through September 2002, and
was
a
tax
partner
at
KPMG,
LLP
from
1988
to
1999
where
he
served
as
the
partner
in
charge
of
the
tax
practice
professional
standards
for
the
firms
Northern
California
offices.
Mr.
Wittrock
is
the
past
President
of
the
Silicon
Valley
Chapter
of
Financial
Executives
International.
Mr.
Wittrock
earned
a
B.S.
in
Business
Administration,
Accounting
from
Creighton
University
in
Omaha, Nebraska and a J.D. from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
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