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Our senior management team has more than 100 years combined experience in the semiconductor industry, with individuals having worked for Agere Systems (formerly AT & T and Lucent Microelectronics), Analog Devices, Fairchild, Motorola, National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments. Our management has expertise in semiconductor design, marketing and manufacturing, in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In addition, we have an excellent retention record for both our engineers and management. We believe this expertise and workforce stability provides the foundation for us to execute our company strategy.

Board of directors		Management team
Ron Mackintosh, Chairman John Scarisbrick, Chief Executive Officer James Collier, Chief Technical Officer, co-founder Paul Goodridge, Finance Director David Tucker, Non-executive director Anthony Carlisle, Non-executive director Sergio Giacoletto, Non-executive director		Jon Hudson, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the PC, Automotive and Consumer Strategic Business Units J. Eric Janson, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Christopher Ladas, Vice President, Manufacturing Neil MacMullen, Senior Vice President, Convergence Strategic Business Unit Anthony Murray, Senior Vice President, Wireless Audio Strategic Business Units Philip O’Donovan, Commercial Director, co-founder Graham Pink, Executive Vice President R&D Matthew Phillips, Senior Vice President, Mobile Handset Connectivity Strategic Business Unit Ray Southam, Human Resources Director

Board of directors

Ron Mackintosh Chairman Mr Mackintosh has served as a non-executive director of CSR since May 2004 and was appointed Chairman with effect from 2 May 2007. Mr Mackintosh is a non-executive director and chairman of Northgate Information Solutions plc. He is also a non-executive director of software company Fidessa group plc, chairman of software company Smartstream Technologies Ltd and chairman of Differentis, a privately owned IT consultancy which he co-founded in July 2000. Mr Mackintosh has held a number of senior executive positions in European technology companies. Between 1992 and 2000 he was chief executive of Computer Sciences Corporation’s (CSC) European business which had revenues of $2.5 billion. He is also a former director and interim CEO of Gemplus SA. Age 58.

John Scarisbrick Chief Executive Officer Mr Scarisbrick was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 March 2006, having been Chief Executive Officer Designate since 1 December 2005. Mr Scarisbrick joined the board of CSR in June 2004 as a non-executive director. He has extensive experience in the telecommunications and semiconductor sectors, having worked for Texas Instruments for 25 years in a variety of senior roles including President TI Europe and a Senior Vice President of Texas Instruments Inc responsible for TI’s $5 billion Application Specific Products chip business and led the team which created TI’s Digital Signal Processor business. Prior to TI, Mr Scarisbrick worked in electronics systems design roles at Rank Radio International and Marconi Space and Defence Systems in the UK. He is a non-executive director of ARM Holdings plc and Intrinsity Inc. Age 53.

James Collier Chief Technical Officer, co-founder Mr Collier has served as the Company’s Chief Technical Officer since CSR’s establishment in April 1999. Mr Collier is a co-founder of CSR. Between 1984 and April 1999, Mr Collier held a number of executive and technical positions at Cambridge Consultants Ltd, where he formed the microelectronics group in 1987. Prior to 1984, Mr Collier held a number of executive and technical positions at Schlumberger. Mr Collier has a degree in physics from the University of Oxford. Age 47.

Paul Goodridge Finance Director Mr Goodridge has served as Finance Director for CSR since January 2002, having joined the Company in 2000. Prior to joining CSR, Mr Goodridge was head of UK finance for PA Consulting. From 1990 to 1997 Mr Goodridge had a variety of senior financial positions at Black & Decker Inc. and Charringtons Fuels Limited. Mr Goodridge is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Age 40.

David Tucker Non-executive director Mr Tucker joined CSR as a non-executive director in January 2004. After nineteen years as an investment manager with M&G unit trusts, Mr Tucker retired as deputy managing director in 1988. He is currently a non-executive director of Edinburgh UK Tracker Trust plc where, until April 2005, he was chairman and is a non-executive director of Rexam PLC where he chairs the audit committee. Mr Tucker is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Age 66.

Anthony Carlisle Non-executive director Mr Carlisle was appointed a non-executive director of CSR in July 2005. Mr Carlisle is an executive director of Citigate Dewe Rogerson, where he is responsible for strategic consultancy and client services. He has over thirty years experience in marketing and communications, advising major companies in the UK and internationally. He holds a BA in Economics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Relations. Age 59.

Sergio Giacoletto Non-executive director Mr Giacoletto was appointed a non-executive director of CSR in January 2007. Mr Giacoletto is executive vice president of Oracle Corporation, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mr Giacoletto also serves as a member of Oracle’s Executive Management Committee. Prior to joining Oracle in 1997, Mr Giacoletto was President, Value Added Services at AT&T, before which he spent 20 years with Digital Equipment Corporation in various senior management and executive roles. Mr. Giacoletto has served on multiple company boards and IT industry associations, is a member of the World Council for Sustainable Business Development and is a member of the South African Presidential International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Turin. Age 58.

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Management team

Jon Hudson Senior Vice President and General Manager of the PC, Automotive and Consumer Strategic Business Units Mr Hudson serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager for the PC, Automotive and Consumer Business Units, having joined CSR in March 2006. During the previous two years, Mr Hudson provided consultancy services to a number of US and European semiconductor companies. From 1977 to 2003 Mr Hudson held technical, marketing and managerial positions at Texas Instruments in Europe. Mr Hudson holds a B.Sc. in Physical Electronics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, and is a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.

J. Eric Janson Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Mr Janson is Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and is responsible for CSR’s sales, field applications engineering and sales operations around the globe. Upon joining CSR in May 2000, he established CSR’s US sales and applications engineering operations, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. He also headed CSR’s Marketing group for a two-year period. Prior to joining CSR, Mr Janson was with Lucent Technologies Microelectronics for 12 years in Munich, Germany and in Reading and Allentown, PA; most recently he was Director, Wireless Marketing for the company. Whilst at Lucent he structured its national Field Applications Engineering group and started up its Wireless RF Products group. From 1977 to 1988 he was with Analog Devices, Inc. (Wilmington, MA), and held positions in marketing and product line management. From 1974 until 1977 he was Member, Technical Staff for Micro-Bit Corporation, a high-end computer memory start-up in Lexington, MA. Mr Janson holds a BS in Engineering Science / Physics from the Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, and an MBA from Babson College, Wellesley, MA.

Christopher Ladas Vice President, Manufacturing Mr Ladas has served as CSR’s vice president, manufacturing since May 2000. Between January 1996 and May 2000, Mr Ladas served as the vice president of operations at Micro Linear Corporation. Prior to 1996, Mr Ladas held several managerial and technical positions at National Semiconductor, Fairchild, Harris, Sperry, Motorola and Signetics. Mr Ladas holds a B.S. in chemistry from Arizona State University, US.

Neil MacMullen Senior Vice President, Convergence Strategic Business Unit Neil MacMullen is the Senior Vice President of the Convergence Strategic Business Unit. Mr MacMullen joined CSR in early 2000 as an embedded software engineer. Prior to joining CSR, he was at Symbian and prior to this spent 9 years developing parallel-processing hardware and software at a small Canadian-based company. His early career at CSR involved creating the application software for the first Bluetooth headsets. He then went on to run the Embedded Application Group developing the Bluelab SDK and extending the range of CSR embedded applications. Mr MacMullen was appointed VP of Software in 2005 with responsibility for CSR’s Bangalore office and worldwide software development. Mr MacMullen holds a B. Eng in Electronic Engineering with Computer Science from University College London.

Anthony Murray Senior Vice President, Wireless Audio Strategic Business Units Mr Murray is the Senior Vice President of the Wireless Audio SBU. Prior to this he was Vice President of Automotive SBU, and has been at CSR since 2001. Mr Murray was Head Design Engineer for an electronics design house in the UK, and Design engineer at a defence electronics firm in South Africa, He qualified in Electronics Engineering at Technikon Natal in South Africa.

Philip O’Donovan Commercial Director, co-founder Dr O’Donovan has served as CSR’s managing director from April 1999 until April 2003 and is now commercial director. Before co-founding CSR, Dr O’Donovan was the vice president of telecommunications at Cambridge Consultants Limited. Prior to 1991, Dr O’Donovan served as chief research engineer at ITT’s Standard Telecommunications Laboratory. Dr O’Donovan holds a B.Sc. from the University of Warwick, UK, an M.Sc. from Birmingham University, UK and a PhD from the University of Essex, UK (all in electrical engineering). Dr O’Donovan is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.

Graham Pink Executive Vice President R&D Mr Pink has served as the head of CSR’s R&D since July 2006 and prior to this headed the Engineering Department. Mr Pink is a co-founder of CSR. Between 1984 and 1999, Mr Pink held a number of technical positions at Cambridge Consultants Ltd. Prior to 1984, he served as a control systems engineer at Lucas Aerospace Ltd. Mr Pink has a degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and is a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. Age 49.

Matthew Phillips Senior Vice President, Mobile Handset Connectivity Strategic Business Unit Mr Phillips is the head of CSR’s Mobile Handset Connectivity business unit. Mr Phillips leads the part of CSR’s business which supplies Mobile Handset manufacturers with world class wireless connectivity products. The Mobile Handset Business unit supplies devices and software to provide full systems solutions to global handset suppliers such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG and Siemens-BenQ. Mr Phillips joined CSR in October 1999 during the development phase of the world’s first CMOS IC to operate at 2.4GHz. Mr Phillips implemented CSR's market launch in Japan and other Asian countries and helped position CSR as the market leader in Bluetooth ICs. Mr Phillips was previously Marketing Manager of Consumer Microcircuits Ltd (CML), a UK based company specialising in ICs for wired and wireless communications applications. Mr Phillips started his career as a radio networks design engineer for Philips Radio Communications Systems also located in Cambridge.

Ray Southam Human Resources Director Mr Southam joined CSR as Human Resources Director in early 2007. Prior to joining CSR, Mr Southam spent eight years at Cambridge Positioning Systems as Chief Financial Officer and Director. From June 1997 to September 1998, Mr. Southam held financial management assignments with a European start-up operation of a US pharmaceutical company and a London law firm. Prior to that Mr Southam spent 12 years in senior financial and general management positions with MDIS plc, an international information systems company formerly part of McDonnell Douglas. He was Group Treasurer for MDIS during their management buy-out and subsequent flotation on the London Stock Exchange. He also led a number of acquisitions for MDIS in the UK and the US. Mr. Southam began his career at Lex Service Group and Cadbury Schweppes. Mr. Southam holds an HND. in Business Studies and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.