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Chief Executive Officer & Chairman

Matt Murphy — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (since 2016-07-11)

Chief Financial Officer

Willem A. Meintjes — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (since 2023-01)

Chief Technology Officer

Noam Mizrahi — Executive Vice President, Corporate Chief Technology Officer

Chief Operating Officer & President

Chris Koopmans — President and Chief Operating Officer (since 2025-02)

  • Tenure: COO since February 2025; prior roles: EVP Marketing & Business Operations (led M&A integrations, corporate transformation, global marketing); Networking Business Group leadership; Global Sales & Marketing. ✓ Company - Leadership - Chris Koopmans - Marvell
  • Prior Career: VP/General Manager Service Provider Platforms at Citrix Systems (post-2012); co-founder and COO of ByteMobile (acquired by Citrix 2012); earlier: engineer at Intel and SGI. ✓ Chris Koopmans - Marvell Technology | LinkedIn
  • Education: Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from University of Illinois. ◐ Chris Koopmans background

Mark Casper — Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary (CLO since 2023-04)

  • Tenure: Joined Marvell October 2021 as SVP & General Counsel; promoted to EVP CLO & Secretary in April 2023. ✓ Company - Leadership - Mark Casper - Marvell
  • Prior Career: General Counsel, VP, and Secretary at Maxim Integrated Products (pre-2021); practiced complex commercial real estate and corporate law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; first corporate attorney and eventually General Counsel at Maxim before Analog Devices acquisition. ✓ Mark Casper Speaks Purposefully - Modern Counsel
  • Education: BS Santa Clara University; JD Santa Clara University School of Law; MBA Leavey School of Business (Santa Clara). ◐ Mark Casper Profile
  • Approach: Drives legal department as true business partner; 20+ years in-house counsel experience. ✓ Modern Counsel Profile

Other Key Executives

  • Sandeep Bharathi — President, Data Center Group
  • Janice Hall — Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
  • Gary Ignatin — Executive Vice President, Corporate Development (M&A strategy)
  • Dean Jarnac — Executive Vice President, Chief Sales Officer
  • Dave Lazovsky — Executive Vice President, General Manager, Data Center Networking Business Group
  • Xi Wang — Senior Vice President and General Manager, Connectivity Group
  • Will Chu — Executive Vice President, General Manager, Custom Cloud Solutions Business

(Background details for non-named officers derived from leadership page; full biography links not available in public materials). ◐ Leadership - The Marvell Executive Team

Compensation Philosophy

Per FY2025 DEF 14A proxy (filed 2025-05-01), Marvell’s executive compensation is designed to be market competitive, performance-based, and aligned with stockholder long-term value creation through multi-year vesting equity awards. The Executive Compensation Committee (ECC) oversees all executive officer pay determinations. ✓ May 1, 2025 - DEF 14A Proxy

FY2025 financial performance: $5.77 billion revenue; $933 million capital returns (buybacks + dividends). ◐ Proxy Statement - Marvell Investor Relations

Historical Co-Founder Leadership (Departed 2016)

Weili Dai — Co-founder, former Chief Operating Officer & President (1995–2016)

  • Tenure at Marvell: Co-founded the company in 1995 with husband Sehat Sutardja and brother-in-law Pantas Sutardja. Held multiple senior titles including Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President, General Manager of Communications Business Group, Corporate Secretary, and Board Director. Promoted to President in 2013 (Marvell newsroom) — a return to a senior public-company executive title after the SEC officer/director bar (see below) had expired.
  • 2008 SEC Settlement (option-grant backdating): As COO and the only acting member of Marvell’s “Stock Option Committee” during fiscal years 2000–2006, Dai signed falsified meeting minutes for stock-option grants whose grant dates had been chosen retrospectively from low points in the historical share-price series. Settled SEC charges 2008-05-08 without admitting or denying allegations: paid $500,000 civil penalty and consented to a five-year officer/director bar from public companies (through ~May 2013). Marvell separately paid a $10M civil penalty and consented to a permanent injunction. SEC Press Release 2008-82, Litigation Release LR-20559, SEC v. Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. and Weili Dai, Case No. CV 08-2367-HRL (N.D. Cal., filed 2008-05-08). ✓ SEC Press Release 2008-82 | ✓ Litigation Release LR-20559
  • Continued role 2008–2016: Remained at Marvell in a non-officer capacity through ~May 2013 (during the 5-year bar), then re-elevated as President post-bar. Departed April 2016 amid the 2015–2016 Audit Committee revenue-pull-in investigation (a separate, unrelated internal-controls matter that produced no SEC enforcement action against Dai personally; both she and CEO Sehat Sutardja stepped down as the company restructured under Starboard Value’s ~7% activist position; Matt Murphy appointed CEO July 2016).
  • Education: BA Computer Science, UC Berkeley.
  • Origin: Born ~1961–1962 Shanghai, China; immigrated to US at age 17.
  • Post-Marvell ventures: MeetKai (co-founder, 2018, AI/metaverse); Silicon Box (co-founder, 2021, Singapore chiplet/advanced packaging); Alphawave IP Group plc board director (2024, following death of husband Sehat Sutardja).
  • Cross-reference: legal_contingencies.md — full SEC settlement detail and statutory predicates.

Sehat Sutardja — Co-founder, former Chairman & CEO (1995–2016)

  • Tenure at Marvell: Co-founded the company in 1995 (CEO and Chairman); led Marvell through 2000 IPO and growth into a leading semiconductor company. Departed as CEO and Chairman in April 2016 alongside Dai during the Audit Committee investigation; Matt Murphy succeeded him as CEO 2016-07-11.
  • Engineering role: Renowned analog/mixed-signal IC designer; PhD UC Berkeley; co-founder Pantas Sutardja (his brother) was Marvell’s CTO.
  • Death: 2024 (per multiple obituaries; specific date not confirmed in primary SEC sources but referenced in Alphawave IP coverage of Dai’s board appointment).
  • 2008 SEC settlement involvement: Sutardja was NOT a named defendant in the SEC’s May 2008 civil action — only Marvell (the corporation) and Dai (as Stock Option Committee member) were named.

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