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Table of Contents
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 16, 2010.
Patrick C.S. Lo is our co-founder and has served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since March 2002. Patrick founded
NETGEAR with Mark G. Merrill with the singular vision of providing the appliances to enable everyone in the world to connect to the high
speed internet for information, communication, business transactions, education, and entertainment. From 1983 until 1995, Mr. Lo worked at
Hewlett-
Packard Company, where he served in various management positions in sales, technical support, product management, and marketing in
the U.S. and Asia. Mr. Lo received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Brown 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 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 solutions. From October 1988 through September 1996, she served as the Manager of Tax for Tandem Computers, Inc., a provider
of fault-tolerant computer systems. Prior to that, she served in management positions at Xidex Corporation, a manufacturer of storage devices,
and spent eight years in 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.
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Name
Age
Position
Patrick C.S. Lo
53
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mark G. Merrill
55
Chief Technology Officer
Michael F. Falcon
53
Senior Vice President of Operations
Christine M. Gorjanc
53
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew W. Kim
39
Vice President, Legal and Corporate Development, Corporate Secretary
Charles T. Olson
54
Senior Vice President of Engineering
David Soares
43
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Michael A. Werdann
41
Vice President of Americas Sales