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Table of Contents
Website Posting of SEC Filings
Our website provides a link to our SEC filings, which are available on the same day such filings are made. The specific location on the
website where these reports can be found is http://investor.netgear.com/sec.cfm
. Our website also provides a link to Section 16 filings which are
available on the same day as such filings are made.
Executive Officers of the Registrant
The following table sets forth the names, ages and positions of our executive officers (who are subject to Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934) as of February 17, 2009.
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, including as the Asia/Pacific marketing director for Unix servers. Mr. Lo received a B.S. degree in
Electrical Engineering from Brown University.
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 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 F. Falcon has served as our Senior Vice President of Operations since March 2006 and Vice President of Operations since
November 2002. From September 1999 to November 2002, Mr. Falcon worked at Quantum Corporation, a data technology company, where he
served as Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain Management. From April 1999 to September 1999, Mr. Falcon was at Meridian Data,
a storage company acquired by Quantum Corporation, where he served as Vice President of Operations. From February 1989 to April 1999,
Mr. Falcon was at Silicon Valley Group, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer, where he served as Director of Operations, Strategic
Planning and Supply Chain Management. Prior to that, he 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 from the University of California, Santa Cruz and has completed coursework in the M.B.A.
program at Santa Clara University.
Christine M. Gorjanc has served as our Chief Financial Officer since January 2008, as our Chief Accounting Officer since December 2006
and as our Vice President, Finance since November 2005. From September 1996 through November 2005, Ms. Gorjanc served as Vice
President, Controller, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary for Aspect Communications Corporation, a provider of workforce and customer
management
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Name
Age
Position
Patrick C.S. Lo
52
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mark G. Merrill
54
Chief Technology Officer
Michael F. Falcon
52
Senior Vice President of Operations
Christine M. Gorjanc
52
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Kim
38
Vice President, Legal and Corporate Development
Charles T. Olson
53
Senior Vice President of Engineering
David Soares
42
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Michael A. Werdann
40
Vice President of Americas Sales