Abhijit Y. Talwalkar has served as a member and Chairman of our board of directors since May 2016. Mr. Talwalkar served as President and Chief Executive Officer of LSI Corporation, a leading provider of silicon, systems, and software technologies for the storage and networking markets, from May 2005 to May 2014. From 1993 to 2005, Mr. Talwalkar was employed by Intel Corporation and held a number of senior management positions, including Corporate Vice President and Co-General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, which was comprised of Intel’s business client, server, storage and communications business, and Vice President and General Manager for the Intel Enterprise Platform Group. Prior to joining Intel, Mr. Talwalkar held senior engineering and marketing positions at Sequent Computer Systems, a multiprocessing computer systems design and manufacturer, Bipolar Integrated Technology, Inc., a VLSI bipolar semiconductor company, and Lattice Semiconductor Inc., a service-driven developer of programmable design solutions.
Mr. Talwalkar has served on the board of directors for Advanced Micro Devices, a leading provider of highperformance computing, graphics and visualization solutions since August 2017. Since March 2017, Mr. Talwalkar has served as a member of the board of directors of TE Connectivity Ltd. and previously served as an advisor to the board of directors from August 2016 to March 2017. Since 2011, Mr. Talwalkar has served on the board of directors of Lam Research Corporation and has previously served as a member of the board of directors of LSI from May 2005 to May 2014 and the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association from May 2005 to May 2014. He has served as the Chairman of the Bay Area chapter of the nationwide non-profit organization Friends of the Children since January 2015.
Mr. Talwalker holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University