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Nelson C. Chan
Nelson C. Chan has served as Chair of our Board since October 2018 and as a director since February 2007. From December 2006 until August 2008, Mr. Chan served as the Chief Executive Officer of Magellan Corporation, a leader in the consumer, survey, GIS, and OEM GPS navigation and positioning markets. From 1992 through 2006, Mr. Chan served in various senior management positions with SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory cards, including as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Business. From 1983 to 1992, Mr. Chan held marketing and engineering positions at Chips and Technologies, Signetics, and Delco Electronics. He currently serves on the board, audit committee, and nominating and governance committee of Deckers Outdoor Corporation (NYSE), a footwear, apparel and accessories designer and distributor; on the board, audit committee, and nominating and governance committee of Twist Bioscience (NASDAQ), which manufactures synthetic DNA; and on the board and nominating and corporate governance committee of GCT Semiconductors (NYSE), a fabless designer and supplier of advanced 4G LTE, IoT and 5G semiconductor solutions. Mr. Chan also currently serves on the Boards of Directors of several private companies. Previously, Mr. Chan was Chair of the board of directors, chair of the compensation committee, member of the audit committee and member of the nominating and corporate governance committee of Adesto Technologies (NASDAQ), from 2010 to June 2020, prior to its acquisition by Dialog Semiconductor plc. He also served on the board, as chair of the compensation committee, and on the nominating and corporate governance committee of Socket Mobile (NASDAQ), from 2016 to 2019. From 2007 to 2010, he was a member of the board of directors of Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ), and from 2010 to 2016, he was a member of the board and compensation committee, and chair of the audit committee, of Affymetrix, prior to its acquisition by Thermo Fisher. From June 2013 through September 2016, Mr. Chan also was chair of the board of Outerwall (NASDAQ) prior to its acquisition by Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm. Mr. Chan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University.