Dr. Garrettson Served as a director of the Company since September 2004. Dr. Garrettson is currently the President and CEO of ClairVoyante Laboratories, a privately held company that develops and licenses proprietary intellectual property to flat panel display manufacturers. Prior to this, Dr. Garrettson was affiliated with Spectrian Corporation, a manufacturer of high power radio frequency transistors and amplifiers for wireless network equipment. He served as President and CEO from 1996 to 2000 and as Chairman of the Board from 2000 to 2002. Before joining Spectrian, Dr.Garrettson served as the President and CEO of Censtor Corporation from 1993 to 1996, a developer of contact magnetic recording head disc technology for the data storage industry. From 1989 to 1993, Dr. Garrettson was the Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Corporate Development and Technology at Seagate Technology, a maker of hard disc drives and storage systems. Dr. Garrettson has also served as the Vice President of the Minneapolis Data Storage Operations at Imprimis Tehnology, and as a Laboratory Director at Hewlett Packard. Dr. Garrettson who has served on boards of four public companies, is currently a director of Catalyst Semiconductor and ClairVoyante and on the advisory board of Diamond Head Ventures and Nucleus Partners. Dr. Garrettson has an M.S. in Engineering Physics as well as a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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