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• Lloyd Carney
  Chief Executive Officer

  • Lloyd Carney was named Chief Executive Officer of Brocade in January 2013 and will be appointed to the Brocade board of directors.  As CEO, Carney is responsible for executing the Company’s vision and strategy to lead the networking industry through its next phase of evolution that will be defined by data center virtualization, cloud computing and software networking. Before joining Brocade, Carney was CEO and member of the board of directors at Xsigo Systems, a technology leader in the data center virtualization market with solutions for cloud computing and software-defined networking. Previous to that, Carney was CEO of Micromuse, Inc., a networking management software company which became an integral part of the IBM Tivoli framework. Carney also has extensive experience in the IP networking industry. He served as the Chief Operating Officer at Juniper Networks where he oversaw the engineering, product management and manufacturing divisions. Carney also served as President of the Core IP, Wireless Internet and the Enterprise divisions at Nortel Networks, which generated multi-billion dollars in revenue. Before this, Carney was the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Business Unit at Bay Networks. Carney holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Wentworth Institute and a Master of Science degree in Applied Business Management from Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• Dan Fairfax
  Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer

  • Dan Fairfax was named Chief Financial Officer and VP of Finance in June 2011 and has responsibility for the company's financial processes and reporting, as well as global real estate and facilities. Fairfax joined Brocade in 2008, as the result of the Company's acquisition of Foundry Networks, where he served as CFO. Fairfax joined Foundry Networks in May 2006, and has more than 25 years of senior financial and operations management experience.   Prior to joining Foundry Networks, Fairfax served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GoRemote Internet Communications. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Ironside Technologies, Inc.; ACTA Technology; and NeoVista Software. Before that, Fairfax held senior financial management and operations positions at Siemens and Spectra-Physics. Fairfax holds a BA in Economics from Whitman College and an MBA from the University of Chicago, and is a Certified Public Accountant in California with an inactive license.

    Holdings: 226,975 shares     View Transactions Date Type Shares Traded Price Range Apr 1, 2013 Automatic Sell 12,000 5.75 Mar 5, 2013 Automatic Sell 12,000 5.75 Jan 23, 2013 Automatic Sell 12,000 5.75 Dec 3, 2012 Acquisition (Non Open Market) 1,132 3.79 Nov 27, 2012 Automatic Sell 12,000 5.75 Nov 1, 2012 Disposition (Non Open Market) 12,547 5.48 Nov 1, 2012 Option Execute 34,209 n/a Oct 25, 2012 Disposition (Non Open Market) 18,340 5.35 Oct 25, 2012 Option Execute 50,000 n/a May 31, 2012 Acquisition (Non Open Market) 2,398 3.95 Mar 23, 2012 Sell 20,378 5.65 Jan 31, 2012 Automatic Sell 29,842 5.56 Dec 22, 2011 Automatic Sell 12,000 5.12 Nov 30, 2011 Acquisition (Non Open Market) 881 4.28 Nov 23, 2011 Automatic Sell 12,000 4.99 Nov 1, 2011 Disposition (Non Open Market) 12,602 4.17 Nov 1, 2011 Option Execute 27,000 n/a Oct 27, 2011 Automatic Sell 12,000 4.49 Sep 22, 2011 Automatic Sell 12,000 4.01 Jul 31, 2011 Disposition (Non Open Market) 67,328 5.48 Jul 31, 2011 Option Execute 170,616 n/a Jul 21, 2011 Automatic Sell 12,000 5.90 Jun 20, 2011 Statement of Ownership 0 n/a Jul 31, 2009 Disposition (Non Open Market) 65,334 7.86 Jul 31, 2009 Option Execute 170,617 n/a Mar 10, 2009 Statement of Ownership 0 n/a

• Dave Stevens
  CTO and Vice President, Corporate Development

  • As Brocade's CTO and Vice President, Corporate Development, Dave Stevens is instrumental in driving the company's technology strategy, key business initiatives, M&A and investment portfolio, as it expands its role in the evolving enterprise network market. Stevens has over 20 years of experience in the enterprise networking, security, compute, and data storage industries. Most recently he was Founder and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, a privately held company that developed next-generation firewall products. Prior to that, Stevens was a partner at Foundation Capital. Stevens previously served at Brocade from 2003 to 2004 as the Vice President and CTO of Brocade Transport Systems, having joined Brocade through the acquisition of Rhapsody Networks, where he was Vice President of Business Development. Prior to that, Stevens served in senior management positions at Atmosphere Networks, Nortel (Bay Networks/SynOptics Communications), and Microdyne. Stevens currently serves on the board of Imation Corp., a storage and data security company. Stevens holds both a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia.

• Jeff Lindholm
  Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales

  • As Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Jeff Lindholm is responsible for leading the development and execution of the company’s overall global sales strategy spanning across all networking products and solutions. In addition, he oversees the global sales organization and is focused on implementing strategies to expand the company’s customer base to take advantage of new business opportunities that are arising in the networking industry today. With more than 30 years of experience in the high-tech industry, Lindholm has held a number of sales and marketing leadership positions at networking and telecommunications technology companies. At Juniper Networks, he served in key executive roles including the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales as well as the Chief Marketing Officer. Most recently, Lindholm served as the Senior Vice President of Field Operations at Arbor Networks, a provider of network security and management solutions for enterprise and service provider networks. Lindholm holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

• Tyler Wall
  Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary

  • As Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, Tyler Wall is responsible for all aspects of the company's legal department functions, practices, and policies. His executive experience includes a focus on technology licensing and distribution agreements; mergers and acquisitions; financing; commercial transactions and agreements; domestic and international corporate affairs; and public company reporting. Prior to Brocade, Wall served at Chordiant Software, Inc. as Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary. Before that, he worked at Oracle Corporation as Corporate Counsel for the Commercial Licensing and Distribution group in Oracle's Legal department. Wall has a BS in Economics from the University of Utah, a JD from Santa Clara University School of Law, and an MBA from Santa Clara University School of Business.

    Holdings: 8,551 shares     View Transactions Date Type Shares Traded Price Range Dec 3, 2012 Acquisition (Non Open Market) 1,376 3.79 Nov 5, 2012 Automatic Sell 7,237 5.50 Nov 2, 2012 Automatic Sell 12,263 5.49 Nov 1, 2012 Automatic Sell 15,830 5.30 Nov 1, 2012 Disposition (Non Open Market) 11,295 5.48 Nov 1, 2012 Option Execute 30,795 n/a Oct 25, 2012 Disposition (Non Open Market) 9,170 5.35 Oct 25, 2012 Option Execute 25,000 n/a May 31, 2012 Acquisition (Non Open Market) 3,750 3.95 May 1, 2012 Automatic Sell 23,745 5.57 Apr 29, 2012 Disposition (Non Open Market) 13,755 5.53 Apr 29, 2012 Option Execute 37,500 n/a Mar 6, 2012 Sell 300,000 5.45 Mar 6, 2012 Option Execute 300,000 3.38 - 4.06 Mar 5, 2012 Sell 24,169 5.68 Nov 30, 2011 Acquisition (Non Open Market) 1,220 4.28 Nov 1, 2011 Disposition (Non Open Market) 7,103 4.17 Nov 1, 2011 Option Execute 19,367 n/a Jun 30, 2011 Sell 23,745 6.50 May 31, 2011 Acquisition (Non Open Market) 3,750 4.28 Apr 29, 2011 Disposition (Non Open Market) 13,755 6.25 Apr 29, 2011 Option Execute 37,500 n/a Mar 4, 2011 Sell 77,585 6.38 Dec 15, 2010 Sell 65,616 5.30 Nov 1, 2010 Disposition (Non Open Market) 33,350 6.41 Nov 1, 2010 Option Execute 79,367 n/a Oct 29, 2010 Disposition (Non Open Market) 38,009 6.35 Oct 29, 2010 Option Execute 103,625 n/a May 28, 2010 Acquisition (Non Open Market) 3,525 4.63 Mar 5, 2010 Sell 117,080 5.81 Nov 25, 2009 Sell 103,760 7.25 Nov 24, 2009 Acquisition (Non Open Market) 174,998 n/a Nov 24, 2009 Disposition (Non Open Market) 71,238 7.10 Nov 1, 2009 Disposition (Non Open Market) 11,004 8.60 Nov 1, 2009 Option Execute 30,000 n/a Nov 24, 2008 Disposition (Non Open Market) 3,575 2.87 Nov 24, 2008 Option Execute 10,000 n/a

• Paul Martin
  Vice President, Global Services

  • Paul Martin was promoted to Vice President of Global Services in June 2011. Prior to this role, Martin served as Brocade's Vice President of Worldwide Technical Support. Martin has more than 25 years of engineering and technical support experience, including serving as the VP of Engineering at CNT and McData following that company's acquisition of CNT. Prior to this, Martin served as Executive VP of Engineering and Support Operations at Calabrio, a VoIP company, where he was responsible for providing support and services for a worldwide installed base of over 750,000 IP-based voice and networking solutions.  Martin has been awarded two patents in the area of VoIP. Martin has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana and Executive MBA from the University of Minnesota.

• Lisa McGill
  Vice President of Human Resources

  • Lisa McGill is responsible for leading and driving Brocade's strategic human resource initiatives globally. Ms. McGill emphasizes an employee centric culture through evolving employee engagement plans and a robust learning and development organization. As a key contributing member of the executive team, Ms. McGill is a true business partner to Brocade's business leaders, ensuring the company's targets are achieved and Brocade remains an aggressive market leader. Ms. McGill has nearly twenty years of HR experience with particular expertise in Int'l HR management & compensation. Ms. McGill was the VP of HR at Foundry Networks, which Brocade acquired in December, 2008. Ms. McGill was with Foundry for nearly 8 years and previously held senior HR positions at Alcatel and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Ms. McGill holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Science degree in business management.

• Raymond Lee
  Vice President of Operations and Information Technology

  • As Vice President of Operations and Information Technology, Raymond Lee is responsible for the company's global supply chain and IT operations. Supply chain operations include order fulfillment, component sourcing, manufacturing strategy, and logistics. IT operations include technology solution delivery, development, and data center operations. Before joining Brocade in 2001, Lee held various senior leadership positions in IT, operations, professional services delivery, and product management at companies such as Walker Digital, IT Solutions (now known as Keane), and Ingersoll-Rand. Lee holds a BS in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Wisconsin as well as an MS in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance and Operations from Indiana University.

• Parviz Ghalambor
  Senior Vice President of Engineering

  • Parviz Ghalambor is responsible for the research and development of all Brocade SAN and IP products globally, a position he has held since 2007. He was previously Senior Director of Engineering at Rhapsody Networks, which was acquired by Brocade in 2003. Ghalambor has over 30 years of engineering management experience, and he has pioneered the design and development of a broad range of technologies, including mainframes, ATM systems, IP networking and storage networking systems. Prior to joining Brocade, he was Senior Director of Engineering at AccessLan Communications. He also held technical management positions at Synoptics and Unisys. Ghalambor holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach.

• Jason Nolet
  Vice President, Data Center Networking Group

  • As Vice President of Brocade's Data Center Networking business, Jason Nolet is responsible for defining the company's vision, strategy and execution plans to drive the company's business results for all SAN and IP/Ethernet data center products and network management solutions. He joined Brocade in 2009, bringing nearly 25 years of experience in the networking industry. Prior to Brocade, Nolet held a variety of executive positions at Cisco during a 13-year period. He was most recently Vice President of Engineering, leading product development for a wide range of security products and solutions. Prior to Cisco, Nolet spent more than a decade in engineering leadership roles at Stratus Computer, AT&T Global Information Systems, and NCR Corporation. Nolet has a BS in Business Administration and Information Systems from San Diego State University.

• Ken Cheng
  Vice President, Routing, Application Delivery and Software Networking Group

  • As Vice President of Routing, Application Delivery and Software Networking Group, Ken Cheng is responsible for the overall vision, strategy, and execution of the Brocade advanced routing, application delivery and software businesses. Cheng joined Brocade in 2008, through the company's acquisition of Foundry Networks. During his 12-year tenure at Foundry, he held a variety of executive management positions. Prior to Foundry, Cheng served as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Engineering for DG Systems (now DG FastChannel), a content distribution network company that operates the largest network designed specifically for media distribution. Cheng also held senior engineering management positions at Network Equipment Technologies (NET) and Bell Northern Research (later Nortel Labs). Cheng has a BS in Applied Mathematics from Queen's University (Canada), an MBA from Santa Clara University, and a Certificate in Music from the Royal Academy of Music (England).