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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chun Ki Hong is one of the founders of Netlist and has been our president and chief executive officer and a director since our inception. Mr. C.K. Hong assumed the title of chairman of the Board of Directors in January 2004. From September 2000 to September 2001, Mr. C.K. Hong served as president and chief operating officer of Infinilink Corporation, a DSL equipment company. Mr. C.K. Hong assisted us on a part-time basis until his departure from Infinilink, at which time he assumed full-time responsibilities with us. From July 1998 until September 2000, Mr. C.K. Hong served as Executive Vice President of Viking Components, Inc., a memory subsystems manufacturing company. From November 1997 to June 1998, he was General Manager of Sales at LG Semicon Co., Ltd., a public semiconductor manufacturing company in South Korea. From April 1992 to October 1997, Mr. C.K. Hong served as Director of Sales at LG Semicon America, Incorporated, a subsidiary of LG. From December 1983 to March 1992, Mr. C.K. Hong held various management positions at LG Subsidiaries in South Korea. Mr. C. K. Hong received his B.S. in economics from Virginia Commonwealth University and his M.S. in technology management from Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Management. As one of our founders, Mr. C.K. Hong brings to the Board extensive knowledge of the organization and our market. Richard J. Char is Managing Director and Global Head of Information Services with Citi’s Global Enterprise Payments. He served as CEO of VIPGift LLC, a provider of corporate and consumer loyalty and incentive programs from October 2008 to March 2010. From June 2006 to July 2008, Mr. Char was the senior vice president of corporate development and general counsel at Blackhawk Network, Inc., a provider of prepaid merchant gift cards and network branded cards. From March 2003 to April 2005, Mr. Char served as the president and chief executive officer of IC Media, a developer of CMOS image sensors that was acquired in April 2005. Prior to joining IC Media, from March 1999 to January 2002, Mr. Char was managing director with the Technology Group of Credit Suisse First Boston. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Char was co-head of technology investment banking at Cowen & Company, and from 1984 to 1997; he was a partner in the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Mr. Char currently serves on the board of directors of Iteris, Inc. (AMEX: ITI) and serves as a member of its audit committee. Mr. Char received his A.B. degree from Harvard College and his J.D. degree from Stanford Law School. Mr. Char brings to the Board of Directors executive leadership experience, as well as corporate finance and corporate development experience. Thomas F. Lagatta has served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Broadcom Corp. since June 2006. Prior to that, he served as the Enterprise Computing Group’s senior vice president and general manager since 2003. He joined Broadcom in 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Lagatta served as vice president and general manager of Anadigics, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer. Before Anadigics, Mr. Lagatta served as vice president of business development at Avnet, Inc. Prior to Avnet, Mr. Lagatta served in various senior management and technical positions for over 11 years at Symbios Logic, a storage systems company. Mr. Lagatta received his B.S.E.E. from Ohio State University and M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California. Mr. Lagatta has leadership experience with manufacturing companies in sales management and building strategic relationships with large system OEMs. Alan H. Portnoy has served as a member of our Board of Directors since March 2004. He is also a business consultant to Amiral Advisors, LLC, a corporate advisory firm. Mr. Portnoy has previously served as president of Macronix America, Inc., chief operating officer of LG Semicon America, vice president of General Instruments Corporation and senior vice president of Silicon Systems. Mr. Portnoy began his career with Fairchild Semiconductor. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Portnoy brings leadership to the Board, experience in the memory manufacturing industry and decades of operating experience. Claude Leglise joined the Netlist Board in October 2011 and is co-founder and Managing Director of ClearSpot Energy, Inc., a solar energy services company. Prior to his tenure at ClearSpot Energy, Inc., Mr. Leglise served as Head of the San Francisco office of WI Harper Group, a venture capital firm where he also served as Managing Director from 2006 to 2007. Prior to WI Harper, Mr. Leglise had a successful career at Intel Corporation that spanned more than two decades. From 2001 to 2005, he served as Vice President of Intel Capital where he was responsible for the company’s venture capital investments outside the United States. From 1982 to 2005, he served as Vice President and General Manager of the Home Products Group, Vice President of the Content group, Director of Worldwide Developer Relations, Director of Marketing in the Microprocessor division and as General Manager of the Supercomputers Components Operation. Mr. Leglise also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Camelot Information Systems Inc., a publicly held company that is a leading provider of enterprise application services and financial industry information technology services in China. Mr. Leglise holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, in Paris, France, as well as an MBA from Stanford University. Mr. Leglise brings to the Board a track record of building profitable businesses and an understanding of how technology companies can partner profitably.
COMMITTEES Audit Committee Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Compensation Committee
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