Management Team

Mr. Halim has been a director since January 2002 and our chief executive officer since June 2003. He was the senior vice president and chief executive officer of the internet infrastructure business of Conexant from February 2002 to June 2003 and the senior vice president and general manager, network access division, of Conexant from January 1999 to February 2002.

Bret W. Johnsen has been our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since July 2008. Prior to joining us, Mr. Johnsen served in a variety of finance and accounting positions with Broadcom Corporation (wired and wireless communication semiconductor and software products) from October 1999 through June 2008, including as Vice President and Corporate Controller (principal accounting officer) from September 2007 through June 2008, Senior Director of Finance, Wireless Connect... 

Mr. Bajwa has been our senior vice president and general manager, lightspeed connectivity solutions, since October 2007. Mr. Bajwa previously served as our vice president of marketing and applications engineering from October 2006 to October 2007, executive director of marketing from April 2006 to October 2006 and director of marketing from August 2003 to April 2006 for our optical communications IC product line. Prior to joining us, Mr. Bajwa was the director, navigation business, of Agilent... 

Mr. Busch has been our senior vice president and general manager, high-performance analog, since October 2007. Mr. Busch previously served as our vice president of marketing and applications for our switching and signal conditioning product line from November 2006 to October 2007 and our executive director of business development from January 2006 to November 2006. Prior to joining us, Mr. Busch was a business development manager of Analog Devices, Inc. (signal processing solutions) from Nove... 

Mr. Cao was appointed Senior Vice President, Operations, March 31, 2008. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Cao was the Vice President, Operations, of HOYA Corporation USA, formerly Xponent Photonics, Inc. (optical network component manufacturer), from August 2006 to March 2008. Mr. Cao also served as the Vice President, Manufacturing and Technology, from March 2006 to August 2006 and the Director, Assembly Operations, from January 2001 to March 2006 of Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (semic... 

Mr. Hamilton has been our senior vice president, worldwide sales, since July 2006. Mr. Hamilton previously served as our vice president of sales for the Asia Pacific region from June 2003 to July 2006. He served as the vice president of sales for the Asia Pacific region of Conexant from September 2001 to June 2003.

Mr. Mankar has been our senior vice president and general manager, very large scale integration engineering, since August 2008. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Mankar was the senior vice president, worldwide core engineering, and chief development officer from December 2006 to May 2008, vice president, very large scale integration hardware systems broadband media processing, and vice president, worldwide core engineering from January 2005 to December 2006, and vice president, very large sca... 

Mr. Medrek has been our senior vice president and general manager, communications convergence processing, since June 2004. Mr. Medrek previously served as our senior vice president and general manager, broadband internetworking systems, from June 2003 to June 2004. Mr. Medrek served as the vice president and general manager, broadband internetworking systems, of Conexant from February 2001 to June 2003 and the vice president of marketing, broadband internetworking systems, of Conexant from ...