Ron Jankov
President and CEO

Ron Jankov was senior vice president and general manager of NeoMagic Corp.'s Multimedia Division before joining NetLogic Microsystems. While at NeoMagic, Jankov led an international team of 120 engineering, marketing, sales and design center professionals. Before NeoMagic, he was vice president and general manager of Cyrix Corp.'s Asian operations. Jankov also founded a semiconductor engineering and technical sales firm, Accell Corp., which was purchased by Cyrix in 1994.

His extensive semiconductor industry experience includes establishing operations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and China for LSI Logic Corp. Jankov also played a pivotal role in bringing Texas Instruments' first personal computer chipset and graphics chip products to market. Jankov holds a bachelor of science degree in Physics from Arizona State University.

Dr. Varad Srinivasan
CTO and Vice President of Product Development

Dr. Varad Srinivasan co-founded NetLogic Microsystems and is the principal designer of NetLogic Microsystems' product architectures. Prior to co-founding NetLogic Microsystems, Dr. Srinivasan was director of design at Quality Semiconductor. Before joining Quality in 1989, he designed the world's fastest bipolar PLD at Aspen Semiconductor. Before Aspen, Dr. Srinivasan was a design engineer at IDT, where he was a principal designer of the company's SRAMs, specialty and multi-port memories.

He also designed DRAM and SRAM products at Fairchild Semiconductor. He earned a master of science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a doctorate in Electronics from North Carolina State. Dr. Srinivasan has also developed and patented several innovations in processor and network search engine technology.

Ibrahim (Abe) Korgav
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Business Operations

Abe Korgav has more than 27 years of manufacturing and operational experience in semiconductor and optical (DWDM) transport systems. Prior to joining NetLogic Microsystems, Korgav was a member of venture capital firm Global Catalyst Partners as an entrepreneur-in-residence. Prior to joining Global Catalyst Partners, he was at Zaffire, an optical transport systems company, as senior vice president of operations. Previously, Korgav was with NeoMagic as vice president of manufacturing operations from its early start-up stage and helped build it into a successful public company with more than $250 million in sales. Before NeoMagic, he co-founded Micro Linear and also worked at Seeq, Synertek, AMD and Siliconix in various manufacturing engineering and operations positions.

Korgav holds master of engineering degree from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma and a bachelor of science degree in Engineering from the Mideast Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.

Michael T. Tate
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Prior to joining NetLogic Microsystems, Mike Tate was previously interim chief financial officer, vice president, corporate controller, and treasurer at Marvell Technology Group Ltd.  He joined Marvell in January 2001 as part of Marvell’s acquisition of Galileo Technology Ltd. Prior to joining Marvell, from 1997 to 2001, he served in various senior financial management roles at Galileo Technology Ltd., including vice president of finance and chief financial officer. From 1994 to 1997, Tate held various senior financial management positions at S3 Incorporated. In addition, he served for more than five years at Deloitte & Touche.

Tate is a CPA and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he graduated with honors.

Marcia Zander
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Marcia Zander was a top performer in semiconductor sales and sales management for QuadRep, Inc., a leading manufacturers representative firm, prior to joining NetLogic Microsystems in July of 1999. During her 12 years at QuadRep, Zander was recognized for her strong sales results while representing Hitachi Semiconductor America and Temic Semiconductor, among others.

In addition to selling semiconductors and other electronic components, she served as general sales manager for QuadRep's Bay Area Division. Before joining QuadRep, Zander held sales and sales management positions at AVX Corporation and Corning Electronics. She earned a bachelor of science degree in Business Management from Merrimack College.

Dr. Dimitrios Dimitrelis
Vice President of Engineering

Dr. Dimitrelis was director of processor development for Vitesse Corporation's Network Processor division prior to joining NetLogic. At Vitesse, he led the product definition and development for three generations (1 GE, OC-48 and 10G) of network processors for high-service classification and traffic management applications. Before joining Vitesse, Dr. Dimitrelis spent 11 years at VLSI Technology where his last assignment was the management of the ARM peripherals development group. In this role, he managed teams responsible for development of ARM peripheral IP components and for the integration of ARM processors into VLSI's product portfolio.

Dr. Dimitrelis holds a Ph.D. in engineering from U.C. Berkeley, a master of science degree in management from Stanford University, and a Diplom-Ingenieur degree from Fridericiana University in Karlsruhe, Germany. He holds a U.S. patent and has received various industry awards on product design achievements.