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Mr. Neely was appointed to our Board of Directors effective January 31, 2007. He has more than 24 years of financial and operations management experience in the semiconductor and electronic design automation industries, as well as start-up company environments. Since September 2005, Mr. Neely has served as Chief Financial Officer of Monolithic Power Systems, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company. From November 2002 to September 2005, Mr. Neely was the Chief Financial Officer of NuCORE Technology, Inc., a privately held developer of digital and analog imaging devices for digital still and video cameras. From August 2001 to November 2002, Mr. Neely was the principal of his own consulting practice, Neely Consulting. In addition, Mr. Neely spent 16 years, from 1980 to 1996, with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in a variety of senior financial management positions worldwide, including assignments in the Philippines, Singapore and Switzerland. Mr. Neely holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Whitman College and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago. | 