Patrick Brockett, President and CEO.
Prior to Summit Mr. Brockett was most recently at Zarlink Semiconductor as President and CEO from 2001-2005. Previously Mr. Brockett spent 20 years at National Semiconductor in various management roles including Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Analog Division from 1997-2000 and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales from 1990-1997. From 1967-1979 he was with Texas Instruments in sales and sales-management roles.

Paul MacMillan, Vice-President of Operations.
Before his current appointment Paul was Director of Product and Test Engineering where he oversaw major improvements in Product Development and Manufacturing at Summit Microelectronics. Previously, from 1997-2005, he held engineering and engineering management positions in Test and Product Development at Microchip Corporation's Analog Division (TelCom Semiconductor). Paul began his career in product manufacturing at Motorola's, East Kilbride, Scotland wafer fabrication plant. He graduated with honors from the University of Paisley Scotland in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Abid Hussain, Vice President Marketing.
Prior to joining Summit Microelectronics in 2004, Mr. Hussain was with Marvell Semiconductor and previously held management positions in Marketing and Applications with Volterra, TelCom Semiconductor and National Semiconductor over his nearly 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.

Asad Cochinwala, VP Finance.
Prior to Summit, Mr. Cochinwala was most recently at California Micro Devices as Operations Controller from 2003 - 2005. Previously Mr. Cochinwala spent 10 years at National Semiconductor in various roles including Director Finance of the Wired Communication Group from 2001 to 2003, Controller of the North American Sales and Marketing Group from 1999 to 2001 and Controller of the Power Business Unit from 1998-1999.

Everett Roach, Vice President Sales.
Prior to joining Summit Microelectronics in 2007 Mr. Roach was Vice President of Sales at NuCORE Technology, a digital imaging chip manufacturer. He has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience including leading sales organizations in the U.S. as well as in Japan, Europe and Hong Kong. Mr. Roach’s broad semiconductor industry background includes Intel Corporation, SiliconWave, Weitek, Cyrix Corporation, National Semiconductor and Tripath Technologies. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of California at Davis.

Sridar Kotikalapoodi, Vice President of Design.
Sridhar began his analog and power design career after receiving his MSEE from Oregon State University in 1994. After joining Summit in 2007, he was appointed Vice President of Design in February 2008. Earlier Sridhar joined Broadcom in September 2005. In April 2006, he was appointed Director of Engineering of Broadcom's Power Management Business Unit. In that position, he started the design group for the business unit and oversaw the development of its first products for portable power and PoE. Prior to Broadcom, Sridhar was responsible for building a portfolio of several successful portable power management products at Fairchild Semiconductor. He holds a number of granted and filed US patents.

Lawrence (Larry) Schmitz, PhD, Summit Fellow, Director of Product Engineering.
Dr. Schmitz is a veteran of more than 40 years of experience in Engineering and Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing. Prior to joining Summit, Dr. Schmitz was Chief Scientist at the Hughes Aircraft Semiconductor Division as well as Manager of Design, Test and Computer Aided Design. Hughes manufactured custom and semi-custom digital, analog and non-volatile ASICs for Commercial and Military applications. Dr. Schmitz holds BSEE, MSEE and PhDEE degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and has 16 patents, 1 patent pending and 3 publications.

Barry L. Cox
Barry Cox, a member of Summit Microelectronic’s Board is also Executive Chairman of the Board of BrightScale Inc. BrightScale is a privately held fabless semiconductor company. From September, 2000 until December, 2005, Mr. Cox maintained a relationship with Lightspeed Venture Partners where he worked with portfolio companies in all aspects of corporate development. Mr. Cox was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd., a publicly traded, semiconductor capital equipment company from May, 2003 until retiring in February, 2006. Additionally, Mr. Cox is a member of the board of directors of privately held, Nanoconduction Inc. and GigaFin Networks.

Mr. Cox was the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Quantum Effect Devices, Inc. (QEDI), a fabless semiconductor company, from July, 1998 until August, 2000. QEDI was acquired by PMC-Sierra (PMCS) in August, 2000. Mr. Cox joined Weitek Corporation, a publicly traded, fabless semiconductor company, in April, 1992 as President, Chief Operating Officer and a director, and was its Chief Executive Officer from October, 1993 to December, 1995. In February 1984, Mr. Cox co-founded and was a director of ATEQ Corporation, a semiconductor capital equipment company, and from 1987 until 1992 served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. ATEQ merged with ETEC Systems in 1992 and held its initial public offering in 1995. Mr. Cox was a founder of ICA Technology, a Japanese joint venture and was a member of the board of directors from 1989 to 1992.Mr. Cox's experience prior to ATEQ includes eight years with Intel Corporation, most recently as the President of Intel Europe and six years with Texas Instruments.

Mr. Cox holds a BS degree in engineering from the US Air Force Academy and an MBA from Boston University.

James Diller
Jim Diller, a member of the Board of Directors of Summit Microelectronics is also a member of the Intersil Board of Directors. Jim became a member of the Intersil Board as a result of the acquisition of Elantec Semiconductor in May 2002 where he was a Director since 1986, and was Chairman of the Board of Elantec from 1997 to 2002. He served as Elantec’s President and Chief Executive Officer from November 1998 to July 2000. Mr. Diller is a founder of PMC-Sierra, Inc. and was its President and Chief Executive Officer from 1983 to 1997; he is currently Vice Chairman of the Board. Mr. Diller was formerly a director of Sierra Wireless, a provider of wireless data communications hardware and software products. In addition, Mr. Diller serves on the board of several privately held companies. Mr. Diller holds a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Rhode Island.

Matthew Howard
Matt brings over 20 years of experience in marketing, product management, engineering, business development, and sales in a range of technologies to Summit Microelectronics’ Board. Matt was named to the Forbes Midas List as a top 100 dealmaker for the past three years.

At Norwest Venture Partners, Matt focuses his efforts on communication and storage systems, embedded systems, semiconductors, security and rich media. He currently serves on the board of ConteXtream, Omneon, Reconnex, Retrevo, Spectra Linear and Summit Microelectronics. Previously, Matt was on the board of Airespace (acquired by Cisco Systems), Skystream Networks (acquired by Tandberg Television), Spinnaker Networks (acquired by Network Appliance), Swan Labs (acquired by F5 Networks) and Webstacks (acquired by Extreme Networks). Matt is a board observer with FireEye, TestQuest, Veraz Networks (Nasdaq: VRAZ) and Yipes. He was a board observer with ZettaCom when it was acquired by IDT and he previously served on the board of the Wireless Communications Alliance (WCA).

Prior to joining NVP in 2000, Matt held senior positions with Cisco's IOS organization and Internet Business Unit. He established Cisco's security and VPN strategy, situated Cisco as the leading firewall appliance manufacturer, and launched the first load-balancing product.

Previously, Matt was vice president of marketing at Vertical Communications, where he focused on voice over IP and launched the first MGCP enabled media gateway. In addition, Matt has held various positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, BDM International, and Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) Communications Corporation. He began his career as a cryptological analyst with the U.S. Naval Security Group.

Tom Klein
Tom Klein is a Semiconductor Industry veteran. He worked in the Industry from 1960 until his retirement in 1992. He started at Mullard Research, the British subsidiary of Philips.

He joined Fairchild Semiconductor R&D Laboratories in 1966, where he demonstrated the feasibility of Silicon Gate MOS Integrated Circuits and lead a group that was responsible for bringing the first commercially available Silicon Gate MOS Integrated Circuit to the market place.

He joined National Semiconductor in 1970 and he worked there until 1984. He left National to start Sierra Semiconductor with fellow Board Member Jim Diller and others. Sierra Semiconductor subsequently became PMC-Sierra. As part of an agreement between Sierra Semiconductor and Singapore Technology, he moved to Singapore for two years to start and technically supervise the operation of Chartered Semiconductor.

After retirement, he continued to participate in the High Tech Industry through investment activities, both directly and through Venture Capital Partnerships. He became the first investor and Board Member of Summit Microelectronics in 1997.

Derrick Lee
Derrick Lee, a member of Summit Microelectronics Board of Directors is a Vice President of Bessemer Venture Partners and focuses primarily on semiconductor, hardware, and alternative energy investments. He spent a year with BVP China in Shanghai helping to develop that practice during 2006-2007. Derrick also serves on the board of BA Systems, and is involved with Bessemer's investments in Avnera, Berkeley Design, ChinaEDU, ColorChip, Miasole, PA Semi, Siano Mobile Silicon, Therative, and Tilera. Prior to BVP, Derrick was part of the sales team at Barcelona Design, an early-stage design automation software company. He has held senior technical and project management positions at Maxim Integrated Products. Derrick started his career as an analog circuit designer at Silicon Systems (acquired by Texas Instruments) and holds two US patents.

Derrick graduated with an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. He earned an MSEE degree from Stanford University, where he was awarded a School of Engineering Fellowship. He also holds a BSEE degree with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia, and earned the School of Engineering’s Shannon Award, which is given to the top graduate of the engineering class.