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Managment Team


	Carl Schlachte, President and CEO Carl has more than twenty years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including CEO roles at global fabless semiconductor and IP companies, and executive positions at Motorola and ARM Holdings plc. At ARM he established its North American operations and secured strategic relationships with some of the largest chip and system companies in the United States. Carl resides in the East Bay of Northern California with his wife and children, and is active in his local community and philanthropic causes. He is Chairman of the Board of MOSAID Technologies Inc.

	Derek Meyer, Chief Operating Officer Derek is one of the pioneers of the semiconductor IP industry. In the role of Chief Operating Officer for ARC International, he is responsible for worldwide marketing, sales, engineering, as well as strategic business and technology initiatives. His direct reports include worldwide sales and engineering activities as well as ARC's Office of the CTO. Meyer's 20-year-plus career has included senior management and executive positions at MIPS Technologies, Ceva, Sun Microsystems, and Harris Semiconductor. He was a founding member of the management team that launched MIPS Technologies from Silicon Graphics in the late 1990's. As vice president of sales and marketing, Meyer was responsible for MIPS achieving over $100 million in licensing revenue, including landmark agreements with Fortune 1000 companies Sony, Nintendo, Broadcom, Philips, among others.

	Victor Young, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Victor has over 35 years of corporate accounting and management experience with technology companies such as Selectica, Mobilitech, BOPS and Tera Systems. Victor's industry experience includes service with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and multinational venture capital, technology, manufacturing, telecommunications and service corporations. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University.

	Tom Huppuch, Senior Vice President and General Counsel In his twenty-five years as a technology lawyer, Tom has served as General Counsel to successful public and private firms and has been an advocate for and successful litigator in connection with the protection of IP assets worldwide. Prior to ARC, Tom was VP and General Counsel of Virata Corporation during its ascent as the leading fabless semiconductor company for DSL. Tom managed legal services through Virata's successful IPO and secondary offerings, four strategic acquisitions and the dramatic increase in its licensing and patent programs. At DEC Tom was Senior Counsel for Worldwide Semiconductor Business Operations, responsible for the acquisition and licensing of core semiconductor related IP. Tom is admitted in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. He is a member of the American Corporate Counsel Association.

	Sandy O’Gorman, Vice President of Human Resources Sandy brings to ARC decades of experience as an HR executive who has helped growing companies transform to world class, multinational organizations. Most recently, she was responsible for global HR services for more than 2,000 employees in 20 countries at software giant Hyperion Solutions. Sandy also held executive HR positions at Quantum, SyBase, and Sun Microsystems. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from and did graduate work in HR administration at San Jose State University, and is certified in process re-engineering from Crosby Quality College, Rummler-Brache, Kolbe, and Zenger-Miller.

	Craig Slayter, Vice President, Corporate Business Development Craig brings over 25 years of executive experience in technology businesses for semiconductor IP licensing, embedded systems, system software, and system-on-chips. Craig has also driven the merger or acquisition of a half dozen technology companies. Previously, Craig was a co-founder or chief executive officer for several startups, including the system software company SoftStyle acquired by Phoenix Technologies. Craig was a key member of the management team participating in Phoenix's IPO, and then became senior vice-president of worldwide field operations running over $100M in software licensing business. He has BSE and MSE degrees from the University of Michigan.

David Doyle, Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations

David joined in November 1999 and established ARC's European Sales operation. David has had a successful career in the semiconductor and EDA industry for over twenty years. Prior to joining ARC's executive team he was Director of Northern European Sales for VeriBest Inc , Strategic Account Manager for Motorola Semiconductor and held various management positions at Intergraph, Plessey Semiconductor and Ferranti Semiconductor.

Lee Flanagin, Vice President, Worldwide Corporate Marketing

Lee is the architect of the company’s brand and strategic market awareness programs. At ARC Lee also is responsible for investor and analyst relations, public relations, executive communications, and electronic marketing. He joined the company in 2004 and has played an instrumental role in increasing the recognition and appreciation of ARC’s leadership position within the global semiconductor industry and UK financial community. Prior to joining ARC, Lee was Director of Global Corporate Marketing for MIPS Technologies, where he launched MIPS into Asia and was recognized for linking MIPS’s solutions to everyday consumer and business products. Prior to MIPS, Lee drove innovative branding and communications programs in the high technology sector for multinational billion dollar companies and PR agencies. Lee resides in the East Bay of Northern California, and has close to a decade of experience with non-profit and community organizations.

Paul Holt, Vice President of Product Development and Services

Paul has over 20 years experience working for IP, IC and EDA companies. Prior to his appointment with ARC International he has held positions in engineering, engineering management, marketing, quality, services and program management for companies such as Texas Instruments, VLSI Technology, Compass Design Automation, Avant! and Ericsson Microelectronics. He has extensive knowledge of European work practices, having lived and worked in England, Germany, France and Sweden.

Bill Jackson, Vice President Marketing

Bill has over 25 years of experience in the electronics industry – the past 15 of which has been focused on the IP and processor sectors working for Eastman Kodak, MIPS Technologies, and Toshiba. He has an MBA with Honors from Boston University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He also holds a number of U.S. patents with several more pending.

Andy Jaros, Vice President of Licensing

Andy has more than twenty years of semiconductor industry experience in key revenue generating positions, with more than ten years in the intellectual property licensing industry. He has held management positions at ARM and Motorola, as well as the positions of President and General Manager at a privately held business. Andy obtained a degree in BSE in chemical engineering from Arizona State University.

Felix Litvinsky, Vice President

Felix has over 20 years of technology and management experience. He is a co-founder of Alarity, where prior to its acquisition by ARC, he served as Chief Executive Officer. Felix has led Alarity to become a major player in the rapidly expanding Consumer Electronics, Multimedia, and Security markets. Before co-founding Alarity, Felix held various technology management positions in major financial services institutions among them Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and General Electric.

Tom Paddock, Vice President of Audio Systems

Tom has over 25 years of experience in the design, evaluation, and measurement of electro-acoustical, acoustical and psycho-acoustic environments. Prior to joining ARC through the acquisition of Sonic Focus, Inc. Tom was the founder, president and CEO of Sonic Focus. He has designed professional audio systems and environments for Windham Hill, Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, George Winston, Grateful Dead, Santana, Cher, Clear Channel, among others. He has filed and holds multiple patents in the field of signal processing and has been awarded numerous RIAA Platinum and Gold Records.

Charles Rendell, Company Secretary and Vice President of Finance

Charles close to two decades of experience working with technology companies. Previously, Charles was CFO of Argonaut Software prior to ARC’s spin off and subsequent IPO in September 2000. Charles led financing rounds for both Argonaut and ARC, dealing with venture capital companies and investors. Charles also held various finance positions within Sega Europe. Charles is a Chartered Accountant who qualified with KPMG in London.

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Office of the CTO


	Dr. Akash R. Deshpande Dr. Akash R. Deshpande has close to two decades of experience in the high-performance system software industry, with applications to network and multimedia system designs. He was the founder, CTO, and director of Teja Technologies, a Silicon Valley startup that was formed based upon his fundamental research at UC Berkeley. Teja was backed by “Tier 1” venture capital funds such as Mayfield, and acquired by ARC International. Previously, Akash worked in engineering, management, and executive positions at various high-technology companies including Teknekron Communications Systems and AT&T Paradyne. Akash has published numerous peer-reviewed and invited papers, addressed and chaired industry conferences, and advised startups as well as established companies on their technology strategies. At ARC, Akash continues his interests in algorithms for low-power multimedia codecs, automata and graph theory, security, and system software. Akash received a Ph.D. in EECS from UC-Berkeley, an M.S. in EECS from U-Florida, and B,Tech in EE from IIT-Bombay.

	Dr. David Greaves Dr. David Greaves received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge on the subject of ATM metropolitan area networks. His work experience includes research and engineering positions at numerous companies, including being the founder of Virata and the founder and chief scientist of Tenison; he currently is a technology advisor to companies such as AT&T and BT (British Telecommunications). In 1993 David was the network architect for the Cambridge Interactive Television Trail that was the world’s first test to provide packet-switched network connectivity all the way to the home. Today David is a faculty member and lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, where he is a member of the Systems Research Group and undertakes research in the area of hardware design and system specification with emphasis on networking. He recently has been working on tools for advanced hardware description using logic programming and the HOL theorem prover, and is now applying these techniques to more general software system specification and co-design and the design of the ultimate ubiquitous system.

	Dr. Tom Pennello Dr. Tom Pennello has over a quarter century experience in the area of software tools for programmers. Tom has created automated compiler tools, compiler front ends, code generators, assemblers, debugger engines and GUIs, multicore instruction set simulators and cycle-accurate simulators, hardware bus and memory models in SystemC, hardware/software co-simulation tools, and various computer languages along the way. Tom was a co-founder of MetaWare Incorporated and its Chief Technology Officer until MetaWare’s acquisition by ARC in late 1999. Tom enjoys the interesting mix of hardware and software in his work at ARC International.

	Dr. Eugene Metlitski Dr. Eugene Metlitski is co-founder and CTO of Alarity Corporation, where he was responsible for R&D and the technological vision of the company. He is renowned in the fields of multimedia technology, signal processing, computer architecture, and information security. Eugene has authored more than 50 books and papers, holds 9 patents in the field of computer science, and is a member of the editorial board of an international technical journal.

	Dr. Nigel Topham Dr. Nigel Topham is chief architect for ARC International and professor of computer systems at the University of Edinburgh. He has led a number of processor design teams, including the configurable ARC 600 processor family. Prior to joining ARC, he was Chief Architect for Siroyan, a startup that created a high-performance scalable VLIW DSP. He is a founding director of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture at Edinburgh University, where he researches new design methodologies for compilers, architectures and micro-architectures. He also enjoys teaching computer architecture to the next generation of processor architects. He holds BSc and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, both from the University of Manchester.