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Table of Contents
In fiscal 2004, we utilized TriNet Employer Group, Inc., an employer services company, to provide human resource services. TriNet was
the employer of record for payroll, benefits, employee relations and other employment-related administration matters. We terminated
our arrangement with TriNet at the end of fiscal 2004, and we will be the employer of record going forward.
Executive Officers of the Registrant
The following table sets forth the names, ages and positions of our executive officers as of March1, 2005.
Name
Age
Position
Patrick C.S. Lo
48
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan R. Mather
54
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mark G. Merrill
50
Chief Technology Officer
Michael F. Falcon
48
Vice President of Operations
Albert Y. Liu
32
General Counsel and Secretary
Ian McLean
43
Vice President of Asia Pacific Sales
Charles T. Olson
49
Vice President of Engineering
David Soares
38
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Support
Michael A. Werdann
36
Vice President of Americas Sales
Patrick C.S. Lo
has served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since March 2002. From September 1999 to March 2002, he
served as our President, and since our inception in 1996 to September 1999, he served as Vice President and General Manager. Mr.Lo
joined Bay Networks, a networking company, in August 1995 to launch a division targeting the small business and home markets and
established the NETGEAR division in January 1996. From 1983 until 1995, Mr.Lo worked at Hewlett-Packard Company, a computer and
test equipment company, where he served in various management positions in software sales, technical support, network product
management, sales support and marketing in the United States and Asia, most recently as the Asia/ Pacific marketing director for Unix
servers. Mr.Lo received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.
Jonathan R. Mather
has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since October 2003 and served as our Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer since August 2001. From July 1995 to March 2001, Mr.Mather worked at Applause Inc., a
consumer products company, where he served as president and chief executive officer from 1998 to 2001, as chief financial officer and
chief operating officer from 1997 to 1998 and as chief financial officer from 1995 to 1997. From 1985 to 1995, Mr.Mather was at Home
Fashions Inc., a consumer products company, where he served as chief financial officer from 1992 to 1995, and as vice president,
finance of an operating division, Louverdrape, from 1988 to 1992. Prior to that, he spent more than two years at the semiconductor
division of Harris Corporation, a communications equipment company, where he served as the finance manager of the offshore
manufacturing division. He has also worked in public accounting for four years with Coopers Lybrand (now part of
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) and for two years with Ernst Young. Mr.Mather is a certified management accountant (CMA)and is also
a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Sri Lanka, where Mr.Mather received his undergraduate B.A.
degree equivalent. Mr.Mather received an M.B.A. from Cornell University, New York.
Mark G. Merrill
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 SynOptic’s first 10BASE-T products.
Mr.Merrill received both a B.S. degree and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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