Rahul Patel Biography and Net Worth

Rahul G. Patel serves as Independent Director of the Company. Since May 2015, Mr. Patel has served as senior vice president and general manager, Connectivity & Networking Business Unit, at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. From August 2002 to May 2015, Mr. Patel worked at Broadcom Corporation where his last role was senior vice president and general manager for the Wireless Communications & Connectivity business. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Patel was a business line manager at HiFn, Inc., a security processor company. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Patel was a senior marketing manager at Samsung Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Patel was Senior Marketing Manager at Tritech Microelectronics, a semiconductor company. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Patel served as various Integrated Circuit Design Engineering and Marketing roles at EPSON/S-MOS Systems, a semiconductor company. Mr. Patel holds an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University, a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Arizona State University, and a B. Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. Our Board believes that Mr. Patel’s extensive executive, managerial, marketing and engineering experience and in-depth knowledge of the semiconductor, consumer, mobile and telecommunications industries qualify him to serve as a member of our Board of Directors.