Atheros Communications

Christine King joined SMSC in October 2008 in the role of President and Chief Executive Officer. Most recently, Ms. King served as CEO of AMI Semiconductor (AMIS) for six years prior to the company’s merger with ON Semiconductor Corporation. Earlier, Christine King served as Vice President of Semiconductor Products for IBM Microelectronics and Vice President of the Networking Technology Business Unit. Ms. King also served as Vice President of Marketing and Field Engineering and Manager of ASIC Products at IBM earlier in her tenure with the company. She serves on the boards of Atheros Communications, Inc., Open-Silicon, Inc., Idaho Power Company and Symwave, Inc. Ms. King earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Jack R. Lazar has served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since September 2003 and as our Secretary since November 2003. Prior to joining Atheros, Mr. Lazar was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of NetRatings,Inc., a publicly traded Internet audience measurement and analysis company. Prior to joining NetRatings, from January 1996 to August 1999, Mr. Lazar was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Apptitude, Inc. (formerly Technically Elite, Inc. and acquired by hi/fn, inc. 2000), a developer and manufacturer of network management solutions. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Lazar served in various executive positions at Electronics for Imaging and prior to this he was employed by Price Waterhouse in San Jose, CA. Mr. Lazar is a certified public accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in commerce with an emphasis in accounting from Santa Clara University.

Adam H. Tachner is Vice President and General Counsel of Atheros Communications, a leading developer of wireless communications semiconductors, systems and related products. Prior to being named General Counsel, he was Atheros's Intellectual Property Counsel. Before joining Atheros, Adam was an associate attorney with Crosby, Heafy, Roach & May, P.C. (now ReedSmith), where he handled all facets of IP procurement, licensing, and strategic litigation in such diverse technologies as wireless communications and networking, electronic design automation, programmable logic, and semiconductor manufacturing processes. Adam also was outside patent counsel to the 3Tera founders' previous companies - Object Dynamics and Z-force - from 1995-2000, and helped lay the foundation for their growing global patent portfolio. Adam holds a J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law, a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from California State University, Fullerton and a Bachelor of Arts degree in social science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Aman Singla is the Vice President of Engineering for Atherosa Mobile Business Unit. Singla joined the company in 2000 as Senior Engineer, and was later promoted to Managing Director of Software Engineering, where he was responsible for leading the development of Atherosa first USB-based client device with an embedded CPU, as well as Atherosa first product targeted at the mobile WLAN and VoIP markets. Prior to joining Atheros, Mr. Singla was a member of the technical staff at Silicon Graphics, Inc. in the companya s High Performance Networking group. Singla holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Amir Faintuch has served as Vice President and General Manager of Atheros' Mobile Wireless Business Unit since September 2008. Prior to joining Atheros, Mr. Faintuch served as business, marketing and product management director for the Mobile Connectivity Solutions division of Texas Instruments (TI). Prior to joining TI, he held various senior management roles including general management, operations, finance and strategic business development at global technology companies in the telephony communications, software and HR services markets. Faintuch earned a dual Master's degree in management with an emphasis in high technology from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Tel-Aviv University's Recanati School of Management. He also holds Bachelor of Science degrees in economics and business management from Haifa University in Israel.

Edward Martin has served as our Vice President of Professional Development since July 2008. In this role, he is responsible for the development of our people and organizations as well as employee communications. Mr. Martin previously served as our Vice President of Global Human Resources between August 2006 and June 2008. Prior to joining Atheros, Ed was Director, Global Learning at Xilinx and prior to Xilinx was VP of Human Resources at Pixar Animation Studios for six years. Prior to Pixar Ed’s roles have included international human resource roles at leading Silicon Valley firms such as Tandem Computers, Intuit and Silicon Graphics. He has a degree Business Administration from San Jose State University and in 2006 produced a business DVD on human resources called "At the Table: a menu of senior perspectives on today's HR" which is now in distribution. He also gives talks on corporate culture to human resource professionals, small business owners and large company CEO's at conferences.

George Chu joined Conexant as president, China Operations in February 2007. Previously, he served as Broadcom's senior director and general manager of R&D in Shanghai, China. Prior to that, Chu held senior engineering and business management positions at Broadcom in the U.S. Before that, he served as vice president, Engineering for Altima Communications, which was subsequently acquired by Broadcom in 2000. Chu also held various U.S.-based engineering positions with 3COM, Stratus, and Raytheon. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, and earned his master's degree in computer engineering at Boston University.

Hing Chu has served as Atheros' vice president of operations since 2009. Mr. Chu has over 30 years of experience in engineering and operations functions with leading technology companies. Hing has been with Atheros since 2001, providing operations leadership as the senior director of engineering, operations to 2006 and vice president of engineering, operations through 2008. Prior to Atheros, Mr. Chu has served in a variety of engineering management roles at NEC Electronics, Silicon Systems and Texas Instruments. He holds Bachelor and Master of Science Degrees from Columbia University.

Dr. Jason Zheng has served as Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific since re-joining Atheros in 2009. In 2008, Dr. Zheng was a General Manager for a venture-backed company. Atheros’ first Director of Systems Engineering since 1999, Dr. Zheng became Vice President of Systems Engineering in 2004 and expanded his role to VP of Asia Pacific in 2005. Prior to joining Atheros, he was the Director of Systems Engineering at ATI Research (formerly Chromatic Research), a graphics and multimedia subsidiary of ATI Technologies, and was previously with Hewlett-Packard. Dr. Zheng holds a Ph.D. in electrical and biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University of China.

Richard G. Bahr has served as our Vice President of Engineering since February 2000. Prior to joining us, from July 1991 to February 2000, Mr. Bahr was the Vice President of Engineering for Silicon Graphics, Inc., a computing, visualization and storage company. Mr. Bahr holds Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tom is responsible for sales in North America and Asia. He was most recently vice president of worldwide sales for Atheros Communications, Inc., a public WLAN semiconductor company, where he built a global sales force. Prior to his experience at Atheros, Tom was vice president of Asia sales for Virata, a Santa Clara-based supplier of integrated software on semiconductors for DSL and related broadband applications. Tom earned a B.S. degree in business management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.

Teresa H. Meng, Atheros co-founder, has served on Atheros' Board of Directors since the company's inception in May 1998. From October 2000 through December 2006, Dr. Meng served as a consultant to Atheros'. From May 1998 to October 1999, Dr. Meng was Atheros' president and chief executive officer. Dr. Meng joined the faculty of Stanford University's Electrical Engineering Department in 1988, and in 2003, Dr. Meng was appointed the Reid Weaver Dennis Professorship. Dr. Meng is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Meng holds Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University.

Mr. Mohr joined Intuitive Surgical in March 2006 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Intuitive Surgical, Mr. Mohr worked at Adaptec, Inc. where he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since July 2003. Before joining Adaptec, Mr. Mohr was managing partner of the West Region Technology Industry Group for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led the firm's accounting and audit advisory practice. During his 22 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr. Mohr lead accounting relationships with many of the technology industry's most respected companies. Mr. Mohr received his BBA in accounting and finance from Western Michigan University.