Exar Corp.

"Mr. Kamsler was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in February of 2007. Prior to joining Exar, Mr. Kamsler was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Centillium Communications, Inc., from July 2004 to February 2007. He also served as Vice President of Operations at Wyse Technology Inc. from 2003 to 2004 and as Chief Financial Officer at Tasman Networks, Inc. from 2000 to 2002. Prior to Tasman Networks, Mr. Kamsler served as Chief Financial Officer of four public companies: Symmetricom, Inc, DSP Technology Inc., Solitec, Inc. and E-H International, Inc. Earlier in his career, he held various finance positions at Intel and was an auditor with Peat Marwick Mitchell. Mr. Kamsler is a CPA and received his Bachelor of Arts from Willamette University and his M.B.A. from the University of Washington. "

"Mr. Vu is Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology. Mr. Vu has over 25 years of experience with leading semiconductor companies. Prior to joining Exar, Mr. Vu was a Vice President of IT at Mattson Technology as well as serving as IT director at LSI Logic and National Semiconductor. Mr. Vu has a broad background in system integration as well as developing software for the enterprise. Mr. Vu has also been involved in building computer centers and infrastructure needed for companies to effectively run their worldwide information systems. Recently Mr. Vu had his own company in which he worked on ERP systems and other implementations at Advanced Analogic Technologies and Monolithic Power Systems. Mr. Vu received his Bachelor of Information System Management degree from University of San Francisco. "

"Mr. Michael is Senior Vice President, Operations and Reliability & Quality Assurance. He joined the Company as Vice President New Market Development in September 1992. In July 1995, he was appointed Vice President Operations and in May 2001, he was appointed to Vice President, Operations and Reliability & Quality Assurance. Mr. Michael has 30 years of semiconductor industry experience, most recently as Vice President and General Manager, Analog and Custom Products with Catalyst Semiconductor. He joined Catalyst in 1987 and served in various senior positions. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis. "

"Mr. Long has over 20 years of semiconductor sales and marketing experience including the last 11 at Exar where he was most recently Vice President of the Americas and Global Distribution. He has previously worked at VLSI Technology as an Area Sales Manager and Worldwide Strategic Account Manager, as well as held various technical positions at Texas Instruments. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the University of Tennessee. "

"Hung Le is Vice President of Engineering. Prior to his current position, Mr. Le was Division Vice President of Technology since 2004. Mr. Le joined the Company in March 1995 when the Company acquired Startech Semiconductor, Inc., where he served as Director of Technology. Prior to joining Startech in 1994, he was Manager of Technology at Sierra Semiconductor, Inc. Hung Le has 24 years of experience in semiconductor physics and design and has been issued 8 patents. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "

"Mr. Melendrez joined the Company in April 1986 as Corporate Attorney. He was promoted to Director, Legal Affairs in July 1991, and again to Corporate Vice President, Legal Affairs in March 1993. In March 1996, Mr. Melendrez was promoted to the position of Corporate Vice President, General Counsel. In June 2001, Mr. Melendrez was appointed Secretary of the Company. In April 2003, Mr. Melendrez was promoted to General Counsel, Secretary and Vice President Business Development. In July 2005, Mr. Melendrez was promoted to General Counsel, Secretary and Senior Vice President Business Development. In April of 2007, Mr. Melendrez was promoted to his current position as General Counsel, Secretary and Executive Vice President Business Development. Mr. Melendrez has over 25 years legal experience in the semiconductor and related industries. He received a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, a J.D. from the University of San Francisco and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University. "

"Richard L. Leza joined the Company in October 2005 as a Director and was elected our Chairman of the Board in September 2006. In February 2007, he was appointed interim Chief Executive Officer and President and served in this capacity through August 25, 2007. He was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AI Research Corporation from 1988 to 2007. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CastaLink, Inc. Prior to 1998, he held similar positions at NucleoTech Corporation and RMC Group, Inc. He is a Board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Counsel and the New Mexico State University Foundation. Mr. Leza earned an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Engineering from New Mexico State University. "