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Balakrishnan Iyer added to Qlogic's Board
ALISO VIEJO, CA: QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), the company that powers storage area networks (SANs), today announced that Balakrishnan (Bala) S. Iyer has been appointed to its board of directors. Iyer is currently the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Conexant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNXT). Before joining Conexant in December 1998, Iyer served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of VLSI Technology Inc. Prior to that, he was corporate controller for Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Director of Finance for Advanced Micro Devices. Iyer has an M.B.A. in finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. degree in industrial engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. "I'm confident that Bala will be an invaluable addition to the QLogic board," said H.K. Desai, president, chairman and CEO of QLogic. "As a key executive of an established semiconductor company, and with his extensive background in both engineering and finance, Bala will be a key contributor to QLogic's strategic vision."