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Dr. Robert W. Conn has been a member of our Board of Directors since August 2004. Dr. Conn was a member of the board of directors of ChipPAC prior to the merger. Dr. Conn has been the Managing Director of Enterprise Partners Venture Capital since July 2002. Dr. Conn served as Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego, from 1994 to 2002. From 1980 to 1994, Dr. Conn served as Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was founding director of the Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research. Dr. Conn co-founded a semiconductor equipment company in 1986, Plasma & Materials Technologies, now Trikon Technologies, and was Chairman of the Board through 1993. Dr. Conn is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and served in 1997 and 1998 as a member of the U.S. President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology Panel on Energy R&D Policy for the 21st Century. As Managing Director of a venture capital firm, Dr. Conn serves as a director of eleven private companies: NEXX Systems, Inc., Pivotal Systems, Inc., Nuelight Inc., 3Leaf Networks, Inc., Quorum Systems, Inc., Tarari Systems, Inc. Calient Networks, Inc., Hammerhead Systems, Inc., Novera Optics, Inc., Scoperta, Inc. and Quartics, Inc.. He is a member of one other public company board, Intersil Corporation, and serves on Intersil’s audit committee. Dr. Conn received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Physics from the Pratt Institute. He received a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D in Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology. | 