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Mr. Panush joined our board of directors on February 13, 2024 and has served as our Chief Executive Officer since January 2023. He joined us from InvenSense, Inc., a TDK group company, where he served as Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of TDK Corporation's MEMS Sensors Business Group. Mr. Panush previously held various leadership positions at TDK following TDK's successful acquisition of InvenSense in 2017. Mr. Panush joined InvenSense in 2015, serving as head of the company's Strategy & Corporate Development, where he drove strategic expansion and diversification efforts. Prior to joining InvenSense, from May 2011 to March 2015, Mr. Panush served in various capacities at Qualcomm, most recently as the Senior Director of Product Management and Business Development for the IoE/IoT client business. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Mr. Panush led strategic marketing and partnerships at Atheros Communications, which was later acquired by Qualcomm. His earlier industry roles spanned software engineering and project management leadership at Texas Instruments and Comsys Mobile, which was acquired by Intel. Mr. Panush holds a Master of Business Administration from Haas Business School, University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor's degree, Cum Laude, in Computer Science from Technion Institute of Technology in Israel.

Mr. Arieli has served as our Chief Financial Officer since May 2005. Prior to his current position, Mr. Arieli served as President of U.S. Operations and Director of Investor Relations of DSP Group beginning in August 2002 and Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of DSP Group's DSP Cores Licensing Division prior to that time. Before joining DSP Group in 1997, Mr. Arieli served as an account manager and certified public accountant at Kesselman & Kesselman, a member of PricewaterhouseCoopers, a leading accounting firm. Mr. Arieli is a CPA and holds a B.A. in Accounting and Economics from Haifa University in Israel and an M.B.A. from Newport University and is also a member of the National Investor Relation Institute.

Mr. Toquet has served as our Chief Commercial Officer since January 2023. Mr. Toquet has more than 20 years of sales and management experience with the Company, most recently serving as our Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific, India and Europe. In particular, Mr. Toquet has spent over 15 years as our Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong, where he led the build-out and management of the sales and support functions in the region spanning China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Prior to joining the Company in 2002, Mr. Toquet held several roles in sales, business development, product marketing and business line management at Freehand DSP and Texas Instruments. Mr. Toquet holds a Master of Science in Engineering degree from Institut Superieur d'Electronique de Paris (ISEP).

Mr. Faintuch has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2025. Mr. Faintuch has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Volumez, a pioneering leader in the Data Infrastructure as a Service (DIaaS) sector, since December 2022. Previously, Mr. Faintuch held senior executive management positions spanning technical and business responsibilities at leading technology companies including: GlobalFoundries, where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Computing, Wired Infrastructure and Storage business; Intel Corporation where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Platform Engineering; and Qualcomm, where his roles included President of Qualcomm Atheros. Mr. Faintuch started his corporate career at Texas Instruments where he was responsible for establishing the company's technical and market leadership in mobile connectivity technologies such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and NFC. Mr. Faintuch holds a bachelor's degree in economics and business administration from Haifa University in Israel and a dual MBA degree in high technology management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.

Mr. McManamon joined our board of directors in April 2003 and has served as chairman of our board since May 2005. He was a business advisor with the Enterprise Ireland funded Stanford University program entitled Strategic Leadership for CFOs. Mr. McManamon served as Chief Financial Officer of Parthus Technologies plc from 1993 until March 2001, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development of Parthus Technologies plc from March 2001 until November 2002, a member of the board of directors of Parthus Technologies plc from 1993 until November 2002, and was one of the co-founders of Parthus Technologies plc. From May 2005 to August 2011, Mr. McManamon served as a partner of Atlantic Bridge, an investment company. In September 2011, he was appointed chairman of Atlantic Bridge. In December 2012, he completed his second five-year term as a board member of The National Development Finance Agency, and as a member of the Audit Committee of the National Treasury Management Agency, appointments made by the Irish Government. He also served as a director of Openmind Networks, Ltd., a provider of SMS and MMS router solutions for mobile and wholesale operators until September 2017. In September 2018, he was appointed and currently serves as a director of Broadwake Limited.

Mr. Silver has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2002. He currently serves as a corporate advisor and Managing Director for Alba Capital S. A. and Wicklow Corp., private holding investment companies. From April 2005 until April 2015, Mr. Silver was a principal at RP Capital Group, an alternative investment firm focused on investment opportunities in EMEA. Mr. Silver serves on the board of a number of private companies, was a director of DSP Group, a former Nasdaq-listed company, until May 2012, and director of Scopus Video Networks Ltd., a former Nasdaq-listed company, until December 2008.

Ms. Marced joined our board of directors in December 2016. From 2007 until her retirement in December 2023, she served as President of TSMC Europe BV, with responsibility for driving the development, strategy and management of TSMC's business in Europe. Before joining TSMC, Ms. Marced was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Sales and Marketing at NXP Semiconductors/Philips Semiconductors. She joined Philips Semiconductor in September 2003 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Connected Multimedia Solutions Business Unit overseeing Philips' semiconductor solutions for connected consumer applications. Previous to her work with Philips, Ms. Marced was employed at Intel where she developed her professional career for more than 19 years, reaching the top position in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region as Vice President and General Manager. She currently serves as Chairwoman of the EMEA Leadership Council of the GSA (Global Semiconductor Alliance). In June 2023, Ms. Marced was appointed to the board of directors of Sequans Communications S.A., and in November 2023, Ms. Marced was appointed to the board of directors of IQE plc.

Ms. Andrietti has enjoyed a successful thirty-plus year career with Intel Corporation following various technical positions at STMicroelectronics. At Intel, she held a series of executive positions, most recently as Vice President of Sales and Marketing of the EMEA region from March 2011 to October 2019 and as President of Intel France from 2003 to October 2017, as well as served as an industry consultant from November 2019 to July 2024. Ms. Andrietti holds a Baccalaureate Degree in Mathematics and Physics. She also has an engineering degree in Micro Electronics and Telecommunications from ESIEE Paris.

Ms. Liu has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2021. Ms. Liu is a senior Partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP, an international law firm, and has more than 25 years of experience in advising public companies on corporate governance matters, M&A strategies and China matters. She serves as outside general counsel to a number of public companies and provides big-picture, critical value-adding strategic advice. She formerly served as co-chair of Morrison & Foerster's Global Corporate Department of over 400 lawyers. Ms. Liu graduated from Harvard Law School.