Mr. Cantwell served as Chief Executive Officer of inSilicon Corporation, a semiconductor licensing company. Mr. Cantwell holds a BSEET in Engineering from DeVry Institute of Technology.
We believe Mr. Cantwells extensive experience in leadership positions at venture capital firms and his knowledge and insight in the technology sector make him well qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE
FOR THE ELECTION OF THE NAMED NOMINEES.
Directors Continuing in Office Until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
K. Charles Janac has served as our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since July 2005, has served on our
board of directors since July 2005, and has served as Chairman of our board of directors since August 2007. Previously, Mr. Janac served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nanomix Inc., an early developer of carbon nanotube
based nano electronic sensors, from September 2001 to January 2003. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Janac served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Infinity Capital, an early-stage Venture Capital Firm.
Prior to that, Mr. Janac served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Smart Machines, a semiconductor wafer handling robotics firm from 1993 to 1999. Mr. Janac started his high technology career as a
co-founder of SDA, Inc., a predecessor company of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a public electronic design automation company. From 1983 to 1992, Mr. Janac held a variety of Finance, Marketing and Sales
Positions finally becoming the Vice President of Marketing, Analog Division of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Mr. Janac holds a BS and MS in Chemistry and Organic Chemistry from Tufts University. Mr. Janac also holds an MBA from the Stanford
University Graduate School of Business. We believe that Mr. Janac is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his deep knowledge of the business and his experience in the semiconductor IP industry. We believe Mr. Janacs
experience and insight, acquired through his numerous years of service, including as our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, make him well qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors.
S. Atiq Raza has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2014.
Since June 2014, Mr. Raza has served as the Chairman of Virsec Systems, Inc., a cybersecurity software company. Mr. Raza also serves as an independent director of Weebit Nano, a non-volatile
memory company, and as Chairman of the board of directors of both PeerNova, a company applying Blockchain technology to financial data transport, and CloudDefense, a software company that provides security scanning tools. Formerly, Mr. Raza
served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a publicly traded semiconductor company, from January 1996 to October 1999. In January 2008, the SEC filed insider trading charges against Mr. Raza
alleging he unlawfully traded on confidential information he received in his capacity as a director of OrthoClear Holdings, Inc. Also in January 2008, without admitting or denying the SECs allegations, Mr. Raza agreed to pay a total
of approximately $3.0 million, which was comprised of the disgorgement of his trading profits, a civil penalty and interest. In addition, Mr. Raza agreed to a five-year ban from serving as a director
or officer of any publicly traded company. The ban expired on January 24, 2013. Mr. Raza holds a BS (Hon) in Physics from the University of the Punjab in Lahore, a BS (Hon) in Electronic Engineering from the University of London, United
Kingdom and a MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. We believe Mr. Razas knowledge and insight, gained through his experience in leading companies in the semiconductor field and technology sector generally,
make him well qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors.
Directors Continuing in Office Until the 2024
Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Raman K. Chitkara has served as a member of our board of directors since
January 2021. Mr. Chitkara has also served as a director of Automation Anywhere, a software company that develops
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