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Karen S. Gibson has served as Chief Information Officer of Invitrogen since January 2004. Prior to joining Invitrogen she served as Vice President of Global eBusiness and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for General Electric (GE) Medical Systems Information Technologies. From January 1997 to May 2000 Ms. Gibson served as an Information Management Leader within GE's Industrial Systems division. Ms. Gibson has also served as Director of IT for Quantum Health Resources and Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (a Johnson & Johnson Company). Ms. Gibson received a B.S. in Computer Technology from Purdue University, and an M.B.A. from Ohio University.

Bernd Brust has served as Senior Vice President of Sales for Europe and the Americas since November 2006. Brust joined Invitrogen in 2004 and previously served as General Manager and Vice President of European Operations. He has more than 15 years of sales, commercial operations and management experience. Prior to joining Invitrogen he served as General Manager of Sales & Marketing for GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, where he was awarded GE Medical Systems IT Commercial Leader of the Year. Brust holds a degree in Engineering from MTS in Amsterdam and is Six Sigma Green Belt certified.

Claude D. Benchimol Ph.D. has served as Senior Vice President of Research and Development of Invitrogen since September 2003. Prior to Invitrogen, Dr. Benchimol held a variety of technology leadership roles during his more than 15 years at General Electric (GE) Corporation. He was Vice President and General Manager of global technology for GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, serving in that position from January 2002 to August 2003. Prior to GE Dr. Benchimol was employed by Thomson-CGR, a medical imaging company. He served as Manager of Advanced Research Laboratory from 1981 to 1988 and Research Engineer from 1979 to 1980. Dr. Benchimol received an equivalent of an M.S. in Engineering from cole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in France, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in Systems Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Benchimol is also a member of the French Academy of Technology.

John Cottingham is Life Technologies' Chief Legal Officer, and served as Invitrogen's Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since May 2004. He served as Vice President, General Counsel for Invitrogen from September 2000 until May 2004. Prior to the merger of the former Life Technologies, Inc. (LTI) with Invitrogen, Mr. Cottingham was the General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of LTI from January 1996 to September 2000. From May 1988 through December 1995, he served as an international corporate attorney with the Washington, D.C. office of Fulbright and Jaworski L.L.P. Mr. Cottingham received his B.S. in political science from Furman University, his J.D. from the University of South Carolina, his LL.M. in Securities Regulation from Georgetown University and his M.S.E.L. from the University of San Diego. He is a member of the board of directors of the California Healthcare Institute and the San Diego chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel.

Peter M. Leddy has served as Invitrogen's Senior Vice President of Human Resources since July 2005. Prior to Invitrogen, Dr. Leddy held several senior management positions with Dell Incorporated from 2000 to 2005 and was most recently, Vice President, Human Resources for Americas Operations. Prior to joining Dell Incorporated, Dr. Leddy served as the Executive Vice President for Human Resources at Promus Hotel Corporation (Doubletree, Embassy Suites). Dr. Leddy also served in a variety of executive and human resource positions at PepsiCo. Dr. Leddy received his B.A. in Psychology from Creighton University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 50 —Mr. Iyer has been a director of Conexant since 2002. He served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of the Company from January 1999 to June 2003. He has served as a consultant to Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (networking infrastructure semiconductors) from June 2003 through December 2004. Mr. Iyer is currently a director of IHS, Inc., Invitrogen Corporation, Power Integrations, QLogic Corporation and Skyworks Solutions, Inc.