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public accounting with a number of accounting firms. Ms. Gorjanc holds a B.A. in Accounting (with honors) from the University of Texas at El Paso
and a M.S. in Taxation from Golden Gate University.
Mark G. Merrill is our co-
founder and has served as our Chief Technology Officer since January 2003. From September 1999 to January 2003,
he served as Vice President of Engineering and served as Director of Engineering from September 1995 to September 1999. From 1987 to 1995,
Mr. Merrill worked at SynOptics Communications, a local area networking company, which later merged with Wellfleet to become Bay Networks,
where his responsibilities included system design and analog implementations for SynOptics' first 10BASE-
T products. Mr. Merrill received both a
B.S. degree and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Michael P. Clegg
has served as our Senior Vice President and General Manager of Service Provider Business Unit since August 2005. Prior to
joining NETGEAR, Mr. Clegg served as VP Engineering, at Entrisphere (acquired by Ericsson) from February 2003 to January 2005, and COO and
CTO at Virtual Access from September 1999 to April 2002. From March 1999 to September 1999, Mr. Clegg served as Vice President DSL
Solutions at Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe which acquired the Westell Europe subsidiary, which Mr. Clegg led as Managing Director from
May 1995 to September 1999. Prior to May 1995, Mr. Clegg served as Senior Consultant at Scientific Generics (now Sagentia) from December 1989
to April 1994. Mr. Clegg received both a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. degree in Digital Systems Design from the University of
the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
David S.G. Soares
has served as our Senior Vice President and General Manager of Retail Business Unit since April 2011, and Senior Vice
President of Worldwide Sales from August 2004 to March 2011. Mr. Soares joined us in January 1998, and served as Vice President of EMEA sales
from December 2003 to July 2004, EMEA Managing Director from April 2000 to November 2003, United Kingdom and Nordic Regional Manager
from February 1999 to March 2000 and United Kingdom Country Manager from January 1998 to January 1999. Prior to joining us, Mr. Soares was
at Hayes Microcomputer Products, a manufacturer of dial-up modems, where he was head of their retail, e-
commerce and DMR channels in the UK.
Mr. Soares attended Ridley College, Ontario Canada.
Michael F. Falcon
has served as our Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations and Support since January 2009, Senior Vice President of
Operations from March 2006 to January 2009, and Vice President of Operations from November 2002 to March 2006. Prior to joining us, Mr. Falcon
was at Quantum Corporation, where he served as Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain Management from September 1999 to November
2002, Meridian Data (acquired by Quantum Corporation), where he served as Vice President of Operations from April 1999 to September 1999, and
Silicon Valley Group, where he served as Director of Operations, Strategic Planning and Supply Chain Management from February 1989 to April
1999. Prior to February 1989, Mr. Falcon served in management positions at SCI Systems, an electronics manufacturer, Xerox Imaging Systems, a
provider of scanning and text recognition solutions, and Plantronics, Inc., a provider of lightweight communication headsets. Mr. Falcon received a
B.A. degree in Economics with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz and has completed coursework in the M.B.A. program at Santa
Clara University.
Charles T. Olson
has served as our Senior Vice President of Engineering since March 2006 and our Vice President of Engineering from January
2003 to March 2006. Prior to joining NETGEAR, Mr. Olson was at Hewlett-
Packard Company, from July 1978 to January 2003, where he served as
Director of Research and Development for ProCurve networking from 1998 to 2003, as Research and Development Manager for the Enterprise
Netserver division from 1997 to 1998, and, in various other engineering management roles in Hewlett
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Packard's Unix server and personal computer
product divisions prior to 1998. Mr. Olson received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and an M.B.A.
from Santa Clara University.
Andrew W. Kim
has served as our Vice President, Legal and Corporate Development and Corporate Secretary since October 2008 and as our
Associate General Counsel from March 2008 to October 2008. Prior to joining NETGEAR, Mr. Kim served as Special Counsel in the Corporate and
Securities Department of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a private law firm, where he represented public and private technology companies in a
wide range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity
financing arrangements, securities law compliance and corporate
governance from 2000 to 2003 and 2006 to 2008. In between his two terms at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Mr. Kim served as Partner in the
Business and Finance Department of the law firm Schwartz Cooper Chartered in Chicago, Illinois, and was an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship
at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Kim holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School, and received a B.A. degree in history from Yale University.
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