Craig H. Barratt, PhD has been a member of our Board of Directors since April 2011 and, effective in April 2020, began serving as chairman of our Board of Directors. Dr. Barratt previously served as our independent lead director from April 2018 to April 2020. Until May 2020, Dr. Barratt served as senior vice president and general manager of the Connectivity Group of Intel Corporation, a semiconductor company, since its acquisition of Barefoot Networks, Inc., a computer networking company, in July 2019, where he previously served as president and chief executive officer since April 2017.
Dr. Barratt held several different roles at Google, Inc., an Internet company, from June 2013 to January 2017, including senior vice president, access and energy, and advisor. He previously served as president of Qualcomm Atheros, the networking and connectivity subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., a mobile technology company, from 2011 to 2013. He served as president, chief executive officer and a director of Atheros Communications, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, from 2003 until its 2011 acquisition by Qualcomm.
Dr. Barratt holds PhD and MS degrees from Stanford University, as well as a BS degree in electrical engineering and a BS degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Sydney in Australia. Dr. Barratt is a co-inventor of a number of U.S. patents in fields including wireless communications and medical imaging and has co-authored a book on linear controller design and open-source software.