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Board of DirectorsBertrand Cambou has served as Spansion’s president and chief executive officer since July 2003. From July 2003 through November 2005, he was a member of Spansion LLC’s board of managers, and has served on the board of directors since November 2005. From January 2002 through the company’s public offering in December of 2005, he also served as a vice president of AMD, first as group vice president of AMD’s Memory Group, and then as an executive vice president. Dr. Cambou was chief operating officer and co-president of Gemplus International S.A. from June 1999 to January 2002. Also during this time, he was a board member of Gemplus International S.A. and of Ingenico Ltd. Dr. Cambou’s career includes a 15-year tenure at Motorola Inc. where he held various management positions including senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Computing System Group as well as chief technical officer of the Semiconductor Sector. Dr. Cambou received his engineering degree from Supelec, Paris, and his doctorate in electrical engineering from Paris XI University. He is the author of 15 U.S. patents. David K. Chao has been a director of Spansion Inc. since 2005. Mr. Chao is a co-founder of Doll Capital Management (DCM) a venture capital firm based in the Silicon Valley and has been a managing general partner since 1996. Prior to DCM, Mr. Chao was a co-founder and member of the board of directors of Japan Communications, Inc. Before co-founding Japan Communications, Mr. Chao worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in San Francisco and as a marketing manager at Apple Computer. Prior to these positions, he was an account executive for Recruit, a Japanese human resources, advertising and services company. Mr. Chao serves on the boards of numerous DCM portfolio companies, including 51job, Inc,where he has served since 2000. He is a management board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Board of Trustees and a member of The Thacher School Board of Trustees. Mr. Chao received a bachelor’s degree in economics and East Asian studies from Brown University and a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University. Gilles Delfassy has been a director of Spansion Inc. since September 2007. Mr. Delfassy, previously senior vice president of Texas Instruments Incorporated, has been at the helm of the company’s successful wireless terminals unit since its inception in 1995, growing it into a multibillion dollar operation. Under his guidance, TI became the world’s leading supplier of semiconductors for the wireless industry. He joined TI in 1978. Before his position in Dallas, Texas, he served as TI’s European Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Department Manager and before that he was running TI Europe’s Automotive Electronics business. In 1977, Mr. Delfassy received an Engineering Diploma (equivalent to master's of science in electrical engineering) at Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Electronique et d’ Automatique de Toulouse. He then graduated in Business Administration from Institut d’Administration des Entreprises de Paris in 1978. Robert L. Edwards has been a director since 2006. Mr. Edwards has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Safeway, Inc. since March 2004. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Maxtor Corporation from September 2003 until March 2004. Before joining Maxtor, Mr. Edwards was senior vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer at Imation Corporation, where he was employed from 1998 to August 2003. He is also a director of Casa Ley, in which Safeway has a 49 percent ownership interest. Mr. Edwards holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in business administration from Brigham Young University. Patti S. Hart has been a director since 2005. Most recently, she served as chairman and CEO of Pinnacle Systems. Ms. Hart previously served as chairman and CEO of Excite@Home. Ms. Hart served as the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Telocity and as a member of its board of directors from July 1999 through its sale to DirecTV in March 2001. Prior to joining Telocity, Ms. Hart was at Sprint Corporation from 1986 to 1999, most recently as president and chief operations officer of Sprint’s Long Distance Division. She is a member of the board of directors for Korn Ferry International, Game Technology and LIN TV Corp., and previously served on the boards of Plantronics Inc, Vantive Corporation, Earthlink, Inc. and Premisys Corporation. Ms. Hart holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and economics from Illinois State University. Donald L. Lucas has been a director of Spansion Inc. since September 2007. Mr. Lucas received his B.A. degree from Stanford University in 1951 and his M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1953. After serving two years as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Mr. Lucas worked in the Corporate Finance Department of Smith, Barney and Co. in New York from 1955-1959. In 1960, Mr. Lucas became an associate of Draper, Gaither & Anderson. Subsequently, he was both a general and limited partner. Draper, Gaither & Anderson’s holdings were quite profitably distributed to the general and limited partners at the end of 1966. Since 1967, Mr. Lucas has been actively engaged in venture capital activities as a private individual. He has been a director of Oracle since March 1980 and currently serves as Chairman of the Executive Committee. He is a director of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and Chairman of the Board of DexCom, Inc., and 51job Inc. Mr. Lucas also serves as a director of several privately held companies. David E. Roberson has served as a director of Spansion Inc. since December 2005. Mr. Roberson is senior vice president and general manager of the Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks Division and has served in that position since May 2007. Mr. Roberson was most recently president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Hitachi Data Systems from April 2006 until May 2007. Mr. Roberson was appointed chief executive officer of Hitachi Data Systems in 2006 after serving as president and chief operating officer since April 2002. He was named chief operating officer at Hitachi Data Systems in April 2000. Mr. Roberson received a bachelor’s degree in Social Ecology from the University of California at Irvine, and a law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, California. Mr. Roberson also studied financial management at Harvard Business School. John M. Stich has been a director since December 2006. He is the Honorary Consul General of Japan at Dallas. Previously, he spent 35 years at Texas Instruments, with his most recent position as chief marketing officer in Japan. He lived and worked for Texas Instruments in Asia for a total of 24 years where he held various additional management positions such as vice president of semiconductors for Texas Instruments Asia Ltd., managing director of Texas Instruments Hong Kong Ltd., and marketing director of Texas Instruments Taiwan Limited. Mr. Stich has been active in leading various industry associations, including serving as: governor of the American Chambers of Commerce in Japan and Hong Kong, and chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association (Japan Chapter). Currently, he is a director of Stonestreet One, Inc., a leading provider of short-range wireless solutions, and Diodes Incorporated, a leading manufacturer and supplier of high-quality discrete and analog semiconductors. In addition, he is a member of the Dallas/Taipei Sister City Committee, a member of the Advisory Council for Southern Methodist University's Asian Studies Program, a director of the Japan America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth, vice dean of the Consular Corps of Dallas/Fort Worth and a member of the Pastoral Council of Prince of Peace church. Mr. Stich holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University. |
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