Catherine P. Lego
Director since 2006
Age 62
Board Committees:
Audit
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Chair: 2009 2014
° Member: 2006 2015
Compensation and Human Resources
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Chair since 2015
Nominating and Governance
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Member since 2014
Public company director-ships in last five years:
Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
Guidewire Software, Inc.
IPG Photonics Corporation
Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. (former)
SanDisk Corporation (former)
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Catherine P. Lego is
the founder of Lego Ventures LLC, a consulting services firm for early stage electronics companies, which she operated from 1992 until December 2018. From December 1999 to December 2009, she was the General Partner of The Photonics Fund, LLP, an
early stage venture capital investment firm focused on investing in components, modules and systems companies for the fiber optics telecommunications market, which she founded. Ms. Lego was a general partner at Oak Investment Partners, a venture
capital firm, from 1981 to 1992. Prior to Oak Investment Partners, she practiced as a Certified Public Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand, an accounting firm.
Ms. Lego has served as a member of the board of directors of Guidewire Software, Inc., an industry platform provider for property and casualty
insurers, since September 2019; Cypress Semiconductor Corp., an advanced embedded solutions company for automotive and other products, since September 2017, where she is chair of the audit committee and a member of the nominating and corporate
governance committee; and IPG Photonics Corporation, a high-power fiber laser and amplifier company for diverse applications, since July 2016, where she is a member of the audit committee and chair of the compensation committee.
She previously served on the board of directors of the following public
companies: Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc., a fabricator of power management devices, from August 2013 to September 2016, where she was a member of the compensation committee and nominating and governance committee; SanDisk Corporation, a
global developer of flash memory storage solutions from 1989 to 2016, where she was the chair of the audit committee; ETEC Corporation, a producer of electron beam lithography tools, from 1991 through 1997; Uniphase Corporation (presently JDS
Uniphase Corporation), a designer and manufacturer of components and modules for the fiber optic based telecommunications industry and laser-based semiconductor defect examination and analysis equipment, from 1994 until 1999, when it merged with JDS
Fitel; Zitel Corporation, an information technology company, from 1995 to 2000; WJ Communications, Inc., a broadband communications company, from October 2004 to May 2008; and Micro Linear Corporation, a fabless analog semiconductor company. Ms.
Lego also served as a member of the board of directors of other technology companies that are privately-held.
Ms. Lego earned an M.S. degree in accounting from the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a B.A. degree in economics and
biology from Williams College.
The Board has concluded that Ms. Lego
should serve as a director of the Company because of her experience on our Board, her substantial accounting and finance expertise, her knowledge of the electronics and semiconductor industries, her experience on boards of companies that are
customers of our customers, her experience with mergers and acquisitions, and her board governance experience on other boards, including her service as a former chairman of an audit committee and current member of audit, compensation committee and
nominating and governance committees.
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