Analog Devices Inc.

David Zinsner is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Analog Devices, Inc. Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to joining Analog Devices, Mr. Zinsner was employed with Intersil Corporation where he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to his promotion to CFO, he was corporate controller and treasurer. During his nine-year tenure at Intersil, Mr. Zinsner held various positions of increasing responsibility spanning the areas of accounting, finance, investor relations and treasury, as well as strategic planning, corporate M&A, and information technology. Earlier in his career, he was employed in international finance and treasury management positions at Harris Corporation, MCI Communications, and Mellon Financial Corporation. Mr. Zinsner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

Greg Koss has more than 20 years of management and operational experience in the networking industry. He was previously President and CEO of optical Ethernet startup Internet Photonics, which was acquired by Ciena. Before that he was the President and CEO of Sonoma Systems, which was acquired by Nortel. Greg has also held business development, product development and senior management positions with high-growth technology companies such as Andrew Corp., CrossComm, Proteon, Fibronics and Analog Devices.

Ray Stata is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Analog Devices, a global semiconductor company headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts. Mr. Stata was responsible for guiding Analog Devices from its genesis to billions of dollars in annual revenues. In addition to his leadership role at Analog Devices, Mr. Stata has been involved with a wide range of successful technology startups, including software and communication systems companies. At Deploy Solutions, Mr. Stata provides leadership and oversight on corporate strategy, organizational development and financial management.

Mike has twenty-five years operating experience in semiconductors and communications, specializing in strategic planning, marketing and business development at companies such as Analog Devices, Anadigics and the world's first DSP company, TRW LSI Products. Mike has also served as the CEO of a networking company and consultant to several technology start-ups. Most recently, he co-founded GTV Capital, an early stage venture fund. Mike is a frequent speaker and panel member at entrepreneur forums. Mike leads the firm's Boston office. Mike received his BSEE from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from California State University; he also studied strategic planning at Harvard University.

Mr. Fishman has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Analog Devices, Inc. since 1996, and has served in various management positions at the company since 1971. Mr. Fishman was first elected a Director of Cognex Corporation in 1998. Currently, he is a member of the Compensation/Stock Option and Nominating Committees. Mr. Fishman also serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of Analog Devices, Inc., and Xilinx, Inc.

James Champy is chairman of Perot Systems Corporation’s consulting practice and also head of strategy for the company. He is responsible for providing direction and guidance to the company’s team of business and management consultants. Mr. Champy is a leading authority worldwide on the management issues surrounding business reengineering, organizational change, and corporate renewal. He consults extensively with senior-level executives of multinational companies seeking to improve business performance. His approach centers on helping leaders achieve business results through four distinct, yet overlapping areas: business strategy, management and operations, organizational development and change, and information technology. Prior to joining Perot Systems, Mr. Champy was chairman and chief executive officer of CSC Index, the management consulting arm of Computer Sciences Corporation. He was one of the original founders of Index, a $200 million consulting practice that was acquired by CSC in 1988. Mr. Champy is co-author of Reengineering the Corporation, a best-seller which was on the New York Times best-seller list for more than a year and sold more than two million copies; it has been translated into 17 languages. His follow-up book, Reengineering Management, is also a best-seller and was recognized by Business Week as one of the best business books of 1995. His next book, co-authored with Harvard Business School professor Nitin Nohria, was The Arc of Ambition. Mr. Champy also collaborated with Professor Nohria for the book Fast Forward, which is a compilation of significant Harvard Business Review articles on change; it was published in March 1996. His next book, X-Engineering the Corporation, Reinventing Your Business in the Digital Age, was released in 2002. In this work, Mr. Champy takes up the opportunity and challenge for cross-organizational process design and collaboration. In his latest book, Outsmart! How to Do What Your Competitors Can’t, Mr. Champy looks at the success many companies have experienced building new business models, or altering existing ones. He reveals the surprising, counterintuitive lessons learned by companies that have achieved super-high growth for at least three straight years.

Osamu Mawatari is Chairman of the Board, President & Representative Director of Analog Devices K.K.(ADKK) , as well as a Vice President of Japan Sales at Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI). Mr. Mawatari joined ADKK in 2003 as Account Sales Director. He was appointed as the Vice President of ADKK in March 2006, and named Chairman of the Board, President & Representative Director of ADKK in May 2006, at which time he also became a Vice President of ADI. He started his career at Nippon Motorola Ltd. in 1979 where he gained experience in sales, marketing and operations including design and product engineering, and served as Director, Imaging and Entertainment Solutions, Semiconductor Sector (presently Freescale Semiconductor) until 2000. After that he worked as Director of Global Accounts at Nihon Synopsys from 2001 to 2002. Mr. Mawatari was born in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. He graduated with a BS in Electronics from Chuo University, Tokyo, in 1979. Mr. Mawatari resides in Kanagawa Prefecture with his wife and two children.

Dr. Fuller is the Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer at Analog Devices, Inc (ADI). In this position he guides the technology strategy of ADI, leads the design tools group within the company and other corporate wide engineering functions, and directs ADI's university-based research programs. Prior to joining ADI in 1998, Dr. Fuller was Vice President of Research and chief scientist at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he was responsible for establishing and leading Digital's research laboratories that led to innovations in RISC computers, network processors, and internet search engines. In the 1970s, Dr. Fuller was an associate professor of Computer Science and electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was involved in the design and performance evaluation of several experimental multiprocessor computer systems. Dr. Fuller serves on the board of ZYGO, Middlefield, CT and the CNRI (Corporation for National Research Initiatives). He currently serves as a member of the Division of Engineering and Physical Sciences Board of the National Research Council and the MESA Industrial Advisory Board review committee of DOE's Sandia Laboratories. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is an IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Seamus Brennan is Vice President, Corporate Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer for Analog Devices, Inc. Since joining ADI in Limerick, Ireland in 1984, Mr. Brennan has played a key role in the development and implementation of the Company’s worldwide financial systems, processes, and controls. After serving as Limerick’s Plant Controller from 1989 to 1994, he transferred to ADI’s corporate headquarters in Norwood, Massachusetts to manage the implementation of the company’s enterprise-wide system for transaction processing and financial reporting. In 1997, he became Assistant Controller and in 2002, was promoted to Corporate Controller. For the past six years, Mr. Brennan has been managing ADI’s worldwide accounting and transaction processing, internal control, management planning and reporting, internal audit, and SEC reporting functions. Prior to joining ADI, Mr. Brennan served for six years as a controller and financial systems manager for a regional development agency in Ireland. Earlier in his career, he spent five years in public accounting. Mr. Brennan holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and an associate of the Irish Taxation Institute.

Alex Glass is Vice President of Global Accounts at Analog Devices, Inc. He joined ADI in 2008 after serving as CEO of 4i2i Communications, a privately-held Scottish company that provides video and audio coding technology for the broadcast industry. Prior to joining 4i2i, Mr. Glass spent 10 years at Xilinx, Inc. In his most recent role with Xilinx, VP of Strategic Accounts, Alex was responsible for all of the company’s non-communications Tier One customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and North America. Prior to that, Mr. Glass held various sales leadership positions with Xilinx, including VP of Sales for EMEA, as well as Area Sales Director for Canada. He is a graduate of London Business School's Sloan Fellowship Program. Mr. Glass currently resides in Berkshire, England with his wife, Emma, and their two children.

Richard (Dick) Meaney is Vice President of Precision Signal Processing at Analog Devices, Inc. In this role, Dick oversees product development and worldwide marketing activities for the company’s analog technologies for applications that demand high-precision conversion. Mr. Meaney’s group develops precision linear and converter products for applications ranging from airport security scanners, factory-floor robotics, automotive airbags, scientific, medical and engineering instrumentation, bar code scanners and ultrasound equipment, to CAT scanners and semiconductor automatic test equipment. Mr. Meaney’s early design work included the development of ADI’s first switched-capacitor-based data converters. A graduate of the University of Limerick, Dick has held a variety of engineering and business management positions during his 26 years with Analog Devices.

Gerald "Jerry" McGuire, a luminary in the digital signal processing (DSP) community, leads Analog Devices' General Purpose DSP Group (GP-DSP). Named vice president of the group in 2007, he focuses on growing the company's global GP-DSP business across a broad-base of application areas including industrial and instrumentation, digital home, automotive, and portable consumer. Mr. McGuire has been with ADI for 20 years in a variety of roles that span applications engineering, product marketing, product line manager, product line director, and most recently as co-general manager of Convergent Platforms and Services (CPSG). His tenure at the company coincides with most of the history of DSPs worldwide. Over this time, he has been involved with all of the company's DSP architectures as well as related development tools and DSP software efforts. As product line director for the company's General Purpose DSP offerings, Mr. McGuire drove ADI's SHARC Processor business from infancy to its current status as the de facto standard in audio processing. Similarly, he worked on ADI's Blackfin Processor family nearly from its inception, putting together the team that turned the Blackfin Processor from an average DSP to one possessing superior attributes of power and performance. Mr. McGuire also helped establish ADI's CROSSCORE Development Tools as the industry-leading DSP tools, integrating two ADI acquisitions into the company and installing the management team for CROSSCORE. Mr. McGuire speaks and writes internationally on a variety of DSP and embedded processing topics. Recently he delivered the keynote address, "The New Frontier: Application Convergence in a Networked World," at Embedded World in Germany in 2006. He began his career at ADI in 1987 in DSP Applications Engineering. Mr. McGuire holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont, where his master's thesis was on the topic of multiprocessing, and a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Vermont.

Howard Cheng is Vice President for Asia; this includes Greater China, Korea, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam for Analog Devices, Inc. He has 20 years of experience in the electronic industry with working experience spread from one end of design engineer and manager to the other corner of business executives in several companies and fields in Taiwan. Prior to joining Analog Devices, Mr. Cheng held a number of senior management positions in Design, Product Marketing and Sales within several telecommunication companies. He holds a BSME from Tamkang University from Taiwan.

John Hussey is Vice President of High Speed Signal Processing at Analog Devices, Inc. He is responsible for product development and all related marketing activities for the company’s high-speed signal processing technology. Mr. Hussey’s group develops high-speed linear and converter products primarily for communications infrastructure and instrumentation applications. This core technology serves as a basis for application-specific linear and mixed-signal products for the consumer, computer and communications markets. Applications include advanced TV, digital cameras, set-top boxes, ADSL and digital radio. Mr. Hussey has held a variety of product line management and marketing positions during his 20 years with Analog Devices. He served most recently as Vice President for High Speed Data Converters. John is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Lon Bott serves as Vice President of Sales, the Americas, for Analog Devices, Inc. He has been with ADI since 1988 and has served in a number of sales management roles both domestically and internationally. Prior to joining ADI, Lon has worked in sales management, marketing, and engineering roles. He holds a BSEE degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University and resides in the Dallas, Texas area with his wife and children.

Margaret ("Marnie") Seif is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Analog Devices, Inc. Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In her position as General Counsel, Ms. Seif is responsible for all aspects of the company's legal work, including corporate and securities matters, governance matters, intellectual property management, and litigation. Prior to joining Analog Devices, Ms. Seif was Vice President and General Counsel of RSA Security, a leading provider of network security and data encryption products headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts and publicly traded on the Nasdaq exchange. In addition to her practice, Ms. Seif has participated in many continuing education programs for PLI, MCLE and others. She has recently authored articles on the topics of management of litigation by in-house counsel, and in-house counsel's role in the management of an SEC investigation. She has also participated in efforts by the online services industry to create privacy guidelines for consumers on the Internet, and to initiate copyright reform for new media. Ms. Seif is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Michigan Law School.

Mark Martin joined Analog Devices in 1985 and was named Vice President in 2007. Prior to joining this division, Mr. Martin held several senior management positions for ADI. As Product Line Director for RF and Wireless Systems (RFWS), he was responsible for the GSM chipset business targeting the WW handset market. As Asia Marketing Director based in Hong Kong, he built and led a regional marketing and application team focused on the wireless communications, computer and consumer markets in China, Taiwan, Korea, and Singapore. Mr. Martin's other roles at ADI included Product Line Manager, High Speed Consumer and Communication Standard Products and High Speed Converter Group Leader. Mr. Martin holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University as well as a M.S. in Engineering Management from the Gordon Institute of Tufts University.

Peter Henry is Vice President of Power Management Products and Portable Computing and Handsets at Analog Devices, Inc. He is responsible for product development and all related marketing of the company’s power management technology, as well as the strategic direction for Portable products. Mr. Henry’s group develops power management solutions for handheld computing, communications, fixed power, enterprise systems and the industrial and instrumentation. In addition, Mr. Henry’s group is pioneering the development and application of next-generation digital power technology, a technology that enables the creation of “smart” power management solutions that will dramatically reduce overall power consumption of traditionally power hungry systems. Prior to re-joining Analog Devices in March 2006 after an 8-year leave from the company, Mr. Henry served as vice president of National Semiconductor Corporation's Portable Power Systems product line and as vice president of marketing for Suni Imaging Systems. Originally joining Analog in 1990, he held various design, marketing and management positions in the company. Mr. Henry earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as completed the Stanford AEA Executive Institute program in 1999.

Peter Real is Vice President of the RF and Networking Components business unit at Analog Devices, Inc. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees in Electronic Engineering. He has worked in both Ireland and the USA throughout his Analog career, starting out as a designer initially focused on the development of precision and high speed converter products. He then progressed through increasing levels of engineering and product line management responsibility within a variety of market and applications segments including disk drives, power management, networking, video distribution, and wireless infrastructure. Today he takes full operating responsibility for the RF and Networking Components businesses at ADI. These businesses define, develop, and merchandise IC solutions primarily for communications markets and applications. He is the holder of nine patents and has presented at many international technical conferences.

Robbie McAdam serves as Vice President of Analog Semiconductor Components for Analog Devices, Inc. Mr. McAdam has held this position since 1999. Prior to his current position, Robbie was Vice President and General Manager of the Analog Standard Products Division and prior to this as Vice President of the Limerick Division, located in Ireland. He began his career with ADI in 1984 as a Marketing Manager for the Limerick Division. Before joining ADI, Robbie served as European Marketing Manager for General Electric's semiconductor division. Mr. McAdam earned a Bachelor of Engineering Degree and a Master of Engineering Degree from University College Dublin in Ireland.

Rob Marshall is the Vice President of Worldwide Manufacturing Operations and has held this position since 1991. Prior to this position he was Plant Manager for Limerick Manufacturing Operations which has the largest and first Fab within Analog Devices, Inc. Rob began his career with ADI in 1983 as an Engineering Manager for the Limerick division. Before joining ADI, Rob served as an Engineering Manager for NMOS production at General Instruments. Rob earned his Bachelors of Science in Engineering from the Dundee College of Technology, Scotland in 1975.

Thomas Wessel is the Vice President for European Sales and Marketing for Analog Devices, Inc. Since June 2005, he is responsible for spearheading the company’s European sales effort, managing an experienced team of sales people across the region to provide both technical support and business development for all customers, direct and distribution. Thomas Wessel earned a Certificate of Finalist in the ‘Best Turnaround Executive’ category of the 2008 International Business Awards, in recognition of his strong performance in implementing positive changes in Analog Devices’ European Sales and Marketing Organisation. He brings over ten years experience supporting electronics customers across Central Europe. He joined Analog Devices, Inc. in 2003. Mr. Wessel holds a B.Sc. in Applied Physics from the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck.

Vincent Roche is Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), headquartered near Boston in Norwood, Massachusetts. Mr. Roche began his career at ADI in 1988 as a senior marketing engineering in the company's Limerick, Ireland facility. Over the next several years he created and managed many new businesses, including ADI's fiber optical infrastructure initiative. These businesses cumulatively have generated significant revenue and intellectual property for ADI. In 1999, Mr. Roche was named Vice President and General Manager for ADI's Silicon Valley Business Units and Computer and Networking Segments. In his current role as Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Mr. Roche is responsible for ADI's worldwide sales channels, including direct sales, distribution, manufacturers' representatives and e-commerce, for all product lines. He is also responsible for corporate marketing and public relations. Mr. Roche grew up in Wexford, Ireland and earned a BSEE degree from Limerick University in Ireland. Mr. Roche resides in Massachusetts with his wife and four children.

William Matson joined Analog Devices as the head of Human Resources in November 2006, bringing a wealth of experience in organizational structure, leadership development and human resources operational infrastructure. Prior to joining Analog Devices, Mr. Matson was the first Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Lenovo, establishing the company as a global enterprise after the acquisition of IBM's PC business in December 2004. Prior to his role with Lenovo, Mr. Matson worked at IBM where he held various Human Resources over the course of his 23-year tenure. Mr. Matson earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in Industrial and Labor Relations. He lives in Dover, MA with his wife Donna and has two children currently in university in Boston. He is a member of the HR Policy Association and the HR Policy Institute.

Frank Weigold brings a wealth of experience in the management of emerging growth companies and turn arounds. He has worked at the highest level with companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations. Frank is currently the Vice President and General Manager of the Micromachined Products Division of Analog Devices, Inc., a position he has held since 1999. He is responsible for the management of two business units and four manufacturing site, including one in Europe and one in the far east. Mr. Weigold joined Analog Devices in 1992 as the Vice President and General Manager of the Transportation and Industrial Products Division. Prior to joining Analog Devices, Frank was President and General Manager of Unitrode Corporation, a provider of electronic components and subsystems. Before Unitrode, Frank worked in various Hambrecht & Quest controlled companies, from 1977 to 1987, including Vice President of New Product Development for Rexon Business Machines; President of Silicon General Inc and Vice President and General Manager of American Standard Inc. Prior to that Frank held various positions, including General Manager with TRW, Inc. from 1966. He started his career at Westinghouse where he held positions in applications engineering and marketing. Frank has a B.S.E.E. from Michigan Technological University and an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Itzik Parnafes is a partner at Stata Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by Ray Stata, founder and former chairman of Analog Devices. Prior to joining Stata Ventures, Mr. Parnafes co-founded Class Data (QOS management), acquired by Cisco Systems [CSCO, '98], as well as Kagoor Networks, acquired by Juniper Networks [JNPR, '05].

Dave Robertson is Vice President of Analog Technology at Analog Devices, Inc. In this position, Mr. Robertson works across all organizational teams to coordinate and leverage ADI's considerable technical expertise to best serve customers. Mr. Robertson joined ADI in 1985 and has worked on high-speed converter product design in a variety of process technologies, including complementary bipolar, BiCMOS, and submicron CMOS. Previously, as product line director for the High-Speed Signal Processing business unit, Mr. Robertson directed both core converter development and the mixed-signal product strategy focusing on broadband communications applications. Mr. Roberson has served on the Technical Program Committee for the ISSCC (International Solid States Circuits Conference) since 1999 and has served as chair of the Analog/Data Converter subcommittee from 2003 through 2009. Dave is an active member of ISTAC (Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee), a joint committee of industry and government members working to advise on technology export controls. Mr. Robertson has authored numerous technical papers and award-winning presentations for venues such as the ISSCC and the VLSI Symposium. He was awarded 16 patents on converters and mixed-signal circuits. Robertson received a Bachelor's degree in economics and a Bachelor's degree in of engineering from Dartmouth College.

Mr. Sicchitano has been retired since June 2001. He joined Price Waterhouse LLP, a predecessor firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or PwC, is a public accounting firm. At the time of his retirement, Mr. Sicchitano was the Global Managing Partner of Independence and Regulatory Matters for PwC. During his 31-year tenure with PwC, Mr. Sicchitano held various positions including the Global Managing Partner of Audit/Business Advisory Services and the Global Managing Partner responsible for Audit/Business Advisory, Tax/Legal and Financial Advisory Services. Mr. Sicchitano also serves as a director of PerkinElmer, Inc. and MetLife, Inc. Mr. Sicchitano is a certified public accountant.

Mr. Istel has been a Senior Advisor to Rothschild, Inc., an international investment bank, since April 2002, and was Vice Chairman of Wasserstein Perella & Co. International and Managing Director of Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc. from 1988 to 1992. Mr. Istel also serves as a director of Imperial Sugar Company, a processor and marketer of refined sugar, compagnie Financiere Richemont S.A., the parent group owning luxury good companies, including Cartier and Montblanc; and Chairman of the Board of Overseers of Reinet Investments S.C.A.

Lester Carl Thurow, Independent Director, is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. He is also a director of Analog Devices, Inc. Professor Thurow served as dean of the Sloan School of Management from 1987 to 1993. Professor Thurow holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and an M.A. in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.