Abhi Talwalkar was appointed LSI president and chief executive officer in May 2005 and was elected to the company's board of directors at the same time. Talwalkar joined LSI from Intel Corporation where he served as vice president and co-general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group which is comprised of Intel's business client server storage and communications businesses. Previously he served as vice president and general manager for the Intel Enterprise Platform Group. In this position he focused on developing marketing and supporting Intel business strategies for enterprise computing. Prior to joining Intel in 1993 Talwalkar held senior engineering and marketing management positions at Sequent Computer Systems (now part of IBM) Bipolar Integrated Technology Inc. and Lattice Semiconductor Inc.

Talwalkar received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1985.

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