Dean Personne has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2006. Mr. Personne joined the Company in February 2005 as President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Mr. Personne was self-employed as a management consultant. From August 2000 until November 2001, Mr. Personne served as Chief Executive Officer of Novus Packaging Corporation, a manufacturer of plastic packaging materials. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Personne served as President and Chief Operating Officer of ASAT Limited, a Hong Kong company engaged in the back end assembly of semiconductors. Mr. Personne has bachelor and master degrees in business administration from Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.
Keith Bladen
Keith Bladen joined Peak's board in October of 2007 and is the current VP of Marketing for Zilog Inc., a leading provider of products and design tools for the semiconductor industry. Mr. Bladen has served in various senior product planning roles at Intel Corporation over the past 14 years including setting the direction for some of the world's largest system memory manufacturers, leading the ramp-up of the Pentium II and III products in the late 90's, and leading Intel into several mobile platforms. Prior to that he was the Director of Operations and Interim CEO of Human Engineered Software. He is a graduate of San Jose State University.
Douglas Broyles
Douglas Broyles has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 1999. Since June 2000, Mr. Broyles has served as a general partner of Huntington Ventures, a venture capital firm. From 1996 to March 2000, Mr. Broyles served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Avalon Data, a wireless data communications design and manufacturing company. Prior to that, he was a partner for ten years with Glenwood Management, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Mr. Broyles has been a member of the Board of Directors of NetLogics Microsystems, Inc. since 1999.
Christine Russell
Christine Russell has served as a member of our Board of Directors since March 2000. Since June 2006, Ms. Russell has served as Chief Financial Officer of Virage Logic Corporation, a technology and market leader in providing advanced embedded memory intellectual property for the design of complex integrated circuits. Prior to that, from April 2005, Ms. Russell served as Chief Financial Officer of OuterBay Technologies, a database archiving company, which was sold to Hewlett-Packard in February 2006. From 2003 to 2005, Ms. Russell served as Chief Financial Officer of Ceva, Inc., a company that provides digital signal processing cores for the wireless and multimedia markets. From 1997 to 2003, Ms. Russell served as Chief Financial Officer of Persistence Software, a company that provides distributed data management software. She is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara and has a master degree in business administration in finance. Ms. Russell has been a member of the board of directors of Quick Logic, Inc. since June 2005.
Russ Silvestri
Russ Silvestri has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2005. Mr. Silvestri is a Managing Director of SKIRITAI Capital LLC, the investment manager for the Leonidas Opportunity Fund. Prior to forming SKIRITAI Capital LLC in June 2002, Mr. Silvestri was a managing and founding partner of Focus Capital LLC. Mr. Silvestri worked with Robertson Stephens & Company from 1989 to 1999 serving as a Managing Director from 1995. Mr. Silvestri represented the United States on the 1988 and 2000 Olympic teams for sailing. Mr. Silvestri has been a member of the Board of Directors of TST Impresso, Inc. since March 2007.
