Press Room

	Audit	Compensation	Nominating & Corporate Governance
Michael J. Callahan (Lead Independent Director)
Michael R. Farese
E. Thomas Hart
Arturo Krueger
Christine Russell
Gary H. Tauss

= Chair = Member = Chairman of the Board = Independent Director

Michael J. Callahan

Michael J. Callahan has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 1997. Since January 2004, Mr. Callahan has been the Chairman of Teknovus, Inc., a privately held company specializing in communications chipsets for subscriber access networks. From March 1990 through his semi-retirement in September 2000, Mr. Callahan served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of WaferScale Integration, Inc., a producer of peripheral integrated circuits. From 1987 to March 1990, Mr. Callahan was President of Monolithic Memories, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturing company. During this period Monolithic Memories became a subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturing company, where Mr. Callahan was Senior Vice President of Programmable Products. From 1978 to 1987, Mr. Callahan was employed by Monolithic Memories in various positions including Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Monolithic Memories, he worked at Motorola Semiconductor for 16 years where he was Director of Research and Development as well as Director of Linear Operations. Mr. Callahan also serves on the Board of Micrel, Incorporated, which files reports pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the Exchange Act, and is a provider of analog power, mixed-signal and digital semiconductor devices. Mr. Callahan holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Michael R. Farese

Michael R. Farese has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2008. Mr. Farese is currently President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of BitWave Semiconductor Inc., a fabless semiconductor company and innovator of programmable radio frequency ICs, a position he has held since September 2007. From September 2005 to September 2007, Mr. Farese was Senior Vice President, Engineering, of Palm, Inc., a leading mobile products company. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of WJ Communications, a radio frequency (RF) semiconductor company from March 2002 to July 2005 and President and CEO of Tropian Inc., a developer of high efficiency RF ASICs for 2.5 and 3G cellular phones, from October 1999 to March 2002. Prior to that time, Mr. Farese held senior management positions at Motorola Corp., Ericsson Inc., Nokia Corp. and ITT Corp. Mr. Farese has held management positions at AT&T Corp. and Bell Laboratories and has been in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry for more than 35 years. He also serves on the boards of PMC-Sierra, Inc., an Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, and Newfound Communications, Inc, a privately held provider of Voice XML and Voice over IP ("VoIP") software solutions. Mr. Farese holds a B.S. degree and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

E. Thomas Hart

Chairman and CEO E. Thomas Hart has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors since June 1994, and as our Chairman since April 2001. Prior to joining QuickLogic, Mr. Hart was Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Networks Division at National Semiconductor Corporation where he worked from September 1992 to June 1994. Prior to joining National Semiconductor, Mr. Hart was a private consultant from February 1986 to September 1992 with Hart Weston International, a technology-based management consulting firm. Prior experience includes senior level management responsibilities in semiconductor operations, engineering, sales and marketing with several companies including Motorola, Inc., an electronics provider, and National Semiconductor. Mr. Hart holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Washington.

Arturo Krueger

Arturo Krueger has served as a member of our Board of Directors since September 2004. Mr. Krueger has more than 40 years of experience in systems architecture, semiconductor design and development, operations, marketing and technical as well as general management. Since February 2001, Mr. Krueger has been a consultant to OEM automobile manufacturers and to semiconductor companies serving the automotive and telecom markets. Mr. Krueger was Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) from January 1998 until February 2001. Mr. Krueger was the Strategic and Technology/Systems advisor to the President of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector from 1996 until January 1998. In addition, Mr. Krueger was the Director of the Advanced Architectural and Design Automation Lab at Motorola. Mr. Krueger is a director of Marvell Technology Group Ltd., which files reports pursuant to the Exchange Act. Marvell is a semiconductor provider of high-performance analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing and embedded microprocessor integrated circuits. He holds an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology in Switzerland, and has studied Advanced Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.

Christine Russell

Christine Russell has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2005. Ms. Christine Russell is currently Chief Financial Officer at Evans Analytical Group (EAG), a provider of analytical services focused on surface analysis, materials characterization and electronic testing services serving the semiconductor and materials sciences industry. She served as EVP of Business Development and CFO at Virage Logic, a semiconductor intellectual property company, from June 2006 to April 2009. Ms. Russell served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of OuterBay Technologies, Inc., a privately held software company enabling information lifecycle management for enterprise applications, from May 2005 until February 2006, when OuterBay was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company. From October 2003 to May 2005, Ms. Russell served as the Chief Financial Officer of Ceva, Inc., a company specializing in semiconductor intellectual property offering digital signal processing cores and application software. From October 1997 to October 2003, Ms. Russell served as the Chief Financial Officer of Persistence Software, Inc., a company specializing in enterprise software providing infrastructure for distributed computing. Prior to 1997, Ms. Russell served in various senior financial management positions with a variety of technology companies for a period of more than twenty years. Ms. Russell is a director of Peak International, Inc. Peak is a supplier of precision-engineered packaging products for storage, transportation and automated handling of high technology products. Ms. Russell holds a B.A. degree and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Santa Clara.

Gary H. Tauss

Gary H. Tauss has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2002. From October 2006 until February 2008, Mr. Tauss served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mobidia Technology, Inc., a provider of performance management software that enables wireless operators to provide users with high-quality mobile content. From May 2005 until the sale of its assets to Transaction Network Services, Inc. in March 2006, Mr. Tauss served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of InfiniRoute Networks Inc., a provider of software peering services for wireline and wireless carriers. From October 2002 until April 2005, Mr. Tauss served as President and Chief Executive Officer of LongBoard, Inc., a company specializing in fixed-to-mobile convergence application software for leading carriers and service providers. From August 1998 until June 2002, Mr. Tauss was President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of TollBridge Technologies, Inc., a developer of voice-over-broadband products. Prior to co-founding TollBridge, Mr. Tauss was Vice President and General Manager of Ramp Networks, Inc., a provider of Internet security and broadband access products, with responsibility for engineering, customer support and marketing. Mr. Tauss earned both a B.S. and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Illinois.