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Nelson C. Chan
Nelson C. Chan has been the Chair of our Board of Directors since October 2018 and a director of the Company 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. Mr. Chan is a member of the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee of Deckers Outdoor Corporation, an NYSE-listed company, which is a footwear, apparel and accessories designer and distributor, and a member of the Board of Directors of Twist Bioscience, a Nasdaq Global Select Market-listed company, which manufactures synthetic DNA. 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, a Nasdaq Global Select Market-listed company, from 2010 to June 2020, prior to its acquisition by Dialog Semiconductor PLC, a member of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Compensation Committee and member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance committee of Socket Mobile, a Nasdaq Global Select Market-listed company, from 2016 to 2019, a member of the Board of Directors of Silicon Laboratories, Inc., a Nasdaq Global Select Market-listed company, from 2007 to 2010, a member of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation Committee of Affymetrix, from 2010 to 2016, prior to its acquisition by Thermo Fisher, and a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Board of Directors from June 2013 to September 2016 of Outerwall, a Nasdaq Global Select Market-listed company, 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.