NVIDIA 2008 Annual Report Download - page 17

Executive Officers of the Registrant
The following sets forth certain information regarding our executive officers, their ages and their positions as of February 27, 2009:
* On February 27, 2009, we announced that David L. White was appointed as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, succeeding
Marvin Burkett, whose decision to retire was disclosed in March 2008.
Jen
- Hsun Huang co - founded NVIDIA in April 1993 and has served as its President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors since its
inception. From 1985 to 1993, Mr. Huang was employed at LSI Logic Corporation, a computer chip manufacturer, where he held a variety of positions, most
recently as Director of Coreware, the business unit responsible for LSI
’ s “system - on - a - chip” strategy. From 1983 to 1985, Mr. Huang was a microprocessor
designer for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a semiconductor company. Mr. Huang holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Oregon State University and an M.S.E.E. degree
from Stanford University.
David White joined NVIDIA in February 2009 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From August 2004 to February 2009, Mr. White
served as the Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Sanmina
- SCI Corporation, a global provider of customized, integrated electronics
manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers in the communications, enterprise computing and medical industries and various other end markets.
From 2003 to 2004, Mr. White was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Asyst Technologies, Inc., a provider of integrated hardware and software
automation solutions that enhance semiconductor and flat
- panel display manufacturing productivity. Mr. White served as President and Chief Executive Officer of
Candescent Technologies Corporation, a developer of field emission display technology for next
- generation thin flat - panel displays, and held various other
positions, from 1995 to 2002. Mr. White holds a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.
Ajay K. Puri joined NVIDIA in December 2005 as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and became Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales in January
2009. Prior to NVIDIA, he held positions in sales, marketing, and general management over a 22
- year career at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mr. Puri previously held
marketing, management consulting, and product development positions at Hewlett
- Packard Company, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., and Texas Instruments
Incorporated. Mr. Puri holds an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University, an M.S.E.E. degree from the California Institute of Technology and a B.S.E.E. degree from
the University of Minnesota.
David M. Shannon joined NVIDIA in August 2002 as Vice President and General Counsel. Mr. Shannon became Secretary of NVIDIA in April 2005, a Senior
Vice President in December 2005 and an Executive Vice President in January 2009. From 1993 to 2002, Mr. Shannon held various counsel positions at Intel,
including the most recent position of Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. Mr. Shannon also practiced for eight years in the law firm of Gibson Dunn and
Crutcher, focusing on complex commercial and high
- technology related litigation. Mr. Shannon holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Pepperdine University.
Debora Shoquist joined NVIDIA in September 2007 as Senior Vice President of Operations and became Executive Vice President of Operations in January
2009. From 2004 to 2007, Ms. Shoquist served as Senior Vice President of Operations at JDS Uniphase Corporation, a provider of communications test and
measurement solutions and optical products for the telecommunications industry. From 2002 to 2004, she served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of
the Electro
- Optics business at Coherent, Inc., a manufacturer of commercial and scientific laser equipment. Her experience includes her role at Quantum
Corporation as the President of the Personal Computer Hard Disk Drive Division. Her experience also includes senior roles at Hewlett
- Packard Corporation. She
holds a B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University and a B.S. degree in Biology from Santa Clara University.
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- K.
Name
Age
Position
Jen - Hsun Huang
45
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
David L. White*
53
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Ajay K. Puri
54
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales
David M. Shannon
53
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Debora Shoquist
54
Executive Vice President, Operations
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