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Sandeep Vij, President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Vij brings to MIPS Technologies more than 20 years of senior-level management and marketing experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining MIPS, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Broadband and Consumer Division of Cavium Networks, a leading provider of highly-integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications, and connected home applications.

Prior to Cavium, Mr. Vij was on the executive staff of Xilinx Inc. for 12 years, where he was instrumental in growing the company’s business by 3X to over $1.8 billion per year and enabling it to become the industry’s largest programmable logic vendor. Mr. Vij also held roles at Xilinx as Vice President and General Manager of its General Products Division, and Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Services and Support. Prior to Xilinx, Mr. Vij spent five years in various senior roles at Altera Corporation.

Mr. Vij is a graduate of General Electric’s Edison Engineering Program and Advanced Courses in Engineering. He sits on the Board of Directors of Coherent Inc. He holds an MSEE from Stanford University and a BSEE from San Jose State University.

Maury Austin, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Austin joined MIPS Technologies in 2008 with more than 25 years of corporate finance experience including executive positions at Apple Computer and General Electric Company. He is experienced in all aspects of corporate finance and strategy, including business model development and implementation, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions and corporate funding.

Most recently, Mr. Austin served as SVP & CFO of Portal Software, Inc., where, working with the executive staff, he drove the redevelopment of the company's business model and was instrumental in its subsequent acquisition by Oracle Corporation. Mr. Austin also played critical roles in improving shareholder value at Southwall Technologies, Symmetricom, Inc. and Vicinity Corporation.

Mr. Austin holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Ravikrishna Cherukuri (Ravi Krishna), Vice President of Engineering

Mr. Cherukuri joined MIPS Technologies as Vice President of Engineering in March 2010. He is responsible for all of the company’s hardware and software engineering efforts. Previously, Mr. Cherukuri was Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering of Sonoa Systems, an infrastructure provider of analytics, management and governance solutions for cloud services and APIs. Prior to Sonoa, Mr. Cherukuri was on the founding team and managed ASIC and hardware development for Siara Systems, a KPCB funded company acquired by Redback Networks in 2000. Previously, Mr. Cherukuri spent eight years at Nexgen Microsystem/AMD, where he was a key designer of AMD’s K6 microprocessor and also led the K7 chipset (Irongate) development effort. Before that, Mr. Cherukuri was an engineer with HCL Infosystems, working on architecture and implementation of the company’s flagship Magnum multiprocessor platform.

Mr. Cherukuri holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from IIT Roorkee and a TRIUM Global EMBA jointly offered by NYU Stern, London School of Economics and HEC, Paris. He holds 19 approved U.S. patents in the fields of computer architecture and networking.

Sandy Creighton, Vice President of Corporate Administration

As Vice President of Corporate Administration, Ms. Creighton leads the corporate departments of human resources, legal and IT. Before assuming her current position, Ms. Creighton was Vice President of Human Resources for MIPS Technologies, and prior to that was Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Before joining MIPS Technologies in June 1998, Ms. Creighton was Deputy General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, Inc., serving as director of the products and technology legal department for the Computer Systems Group, Sun’s largest division

Prior to joining Sun in 1991, Ms. Creighton was a Business Associate at the law firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, where she provided a broad range of services for clients ranging from start-up ventures with new technologies to Fortune 500 companies.

Ms. Creighton holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University and a J.D. from Northwestern University.

Brad Holtzinger, Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Mr. Holtzinger joined MIPS Technologies in 2001 as the director of systems solutions and has more than 26 years of embedded industry experience in sales, marketing and engineering.

Mr. Holtzinger was salesman of the year at MIPS Technologies in his first year in sales. Subsequently, in his first year as vice president of sales, the Americas, he led the Americas team to record growth over the prior year. Mr. Holtzinger began his career at Motorola in 1979 and was one of the founding members of the Motorola Computer Group selling VME boards into the embedded market. In 1991 he joined Force Computers and established their embedded systems business unit. Additionally, he has had a successful career selling semiconductors as a manufacturer's representative for companies including Xilinx, PMC-Sierra, and Fujitsu, among others.

Mr. Holtzinger holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University.

Gail Shulman, General Counsel

Prior to assuming the role of General Counsel for MIPS Technologies, Ms. Shulman served as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary. Her responsibilities included a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including legal issues arising in international operations, mergers and acquisitions, employment, finance and facilities. Before joining MIPS Technologies in 1999, Ms. Shulman was the first in-house lawyer—establishing the legal department—for Axil Computer (a subsidiary of Hyundai Electronics). She also worked for Thelen, Reid, Brown, Raysman & Steiner for more than seven years, where she specialized in corporate and commercial transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Ms. Shulman received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law; and her B.A. from the University of California, San Diego.

Art Swift, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development

Mr. Swift joined MIPS Technologies in 2009 to lead marketing efforts for the company’s global operations. He has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and executive management for semiconductor and processor IP companies.

Mr. Swift held a range of senior marketing and executive leadership roles including President and CEO of Unidym, Inc. and President, CEO and Senior Vice President of Marketing at Transmeta Corporation, a provider of low-power microprocessors and IP. Prior to Transmeta, Swift was COO at embedded software provider Lynuxworks and Vice President and General Manager of several large divisions of chipmaker Cirrus Logic. He also held senior marketing, business development and engineering positions with Summit Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment, Bipolar Integrated Technology, and Fairchild Semiconductor.

Mr. Swift holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He is co-inventor of three U.S. patents relating to programmable logic architectures.