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Table of Contents
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 Worldwide Operations and Support since January 2009. From March 2006 to
January 2009, he served as our Senior Vice President of Operations, and from November 2002 to March 2006, as our Vice President of
Operations. 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 from December 2006
to January 2008 and as our Vice President, Finance from November 2005 to December 2006. 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.
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, he
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.
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. From July 1978 to January 2003, Mr. Olson worked at Hewlett-Packard Company, 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, prior to that, in various other engineering management roles in Hewlett-Packard’s Unix server and personal
computer product divisions. 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.
David Soares has served as our Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales since August 2004. Mr. Soares joined us in January 1998, and
served as Vice President of EMEA sales from December 2003 to July 2004,
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