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As President, Chief Executive Officer, and member of the Board of Directors, Mr. Roche sets Analog Devices’ strategic vision and oversees operational execution across the business. Since becoming ADI’s president in 2012 and CEO in 2013, Mr. Roche has been instrumental in growing the organization’s market leadership in the high-performance analog sector through a strong customer-centric focus and unyielding commitment to innovation and engineering excellence. Under his leadership, ADI has expanded the breadth of its product portfolio and added new technologies and capabilities to provide more comprehensive solutions to customers’ toughest technical challenges. Mr. Roche is only the third CEO to lead the company since its founding in 1965. He began his career at ADI in 1988, progressively gaining responsibility in product line management, strategic marketing, and business unit management roles during his early tenure. Mr. Roche held senior positions for ADI in Ireland, Massachusetts, and California, and in 2001 was given responsibility for global sales and marketing as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. In 2009, Mr. Roche was named Vice President for the newly created Worldwide Sales and Strategic Market Segments Group, where he focused on integrating ADI technology into optimized solutions for industrial, automotive, and infrastructure customers. Mr. Roche was promoted to President of ADI in 2012, taking responsibility for all R&D, sales, marketing and business development and in May 2013, he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Roche serves on the Board of Directors of Acacia Communications, Inc., a leading developer of high-speed coherent optical interconnect products that transform communications networks through improvements in performance and capacity and a reduction in associated costs. Mr. Roche earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Limerick in Ireland.

Sasan Goodarzi has served as a member of Atlassian's board of directors since April 2018. Mr. Goodarzi is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Intiuit Inc. From May 2016 to December 2018, Mr. Goodarzi served as executive vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Small Business and Self-Employed Group. Prior to that, Mr. Goodarzi held multiple general management positions during two separate stints at Intuit, including as senior vice president and general manager for the company’s ProTax division and Intuit Financial Services from 2004 to 2010, as chief information officer leading Intuit’s transition to the cloud from 2011 to 2013, and as general manager and executive vice president of TurboTax from 2013 to 2016. Prior to joining Intuit, Mr. Goodarzi worked for Invensys, a global provider of industrial automation, transportation and controls technology, serving as global president of the products group. He also held a number of senior leadership roles in the automation control division at Honeywell. Mr. Goodarzi earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Central Florida and a master's degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Foss was named president and chief executive officer of Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. in 2016, after serving as president from 2014 to 2016. He joined Jack Henry in 1999 when he arranged the sale of BancTec's financial solutions division to the company and subsequently served as president of Jack Henry's Open Systems Group and general manager of the Complementary Solutions Group. He was named general manager of Jack Henry's ProfitStars division in 2006 and as its president in 2009. Under his leadership, ProfitStars evolved from a startup division into a global brand serving more than 9,000 clients in the financial services industry. Foss received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Minnesota State University.

Patrick Spence is the Chief Executive Officer and serves on the Board of Directors for Sonos. Patrick joined Sonos as Chief Commercial Officer in 2012. He has played a central role in the development and launch of some of the company’s most successful products. Patrick has also led the company’s expansion into new territories including China, France, Australia, and Mexico. Prior to joining Sonos, Patrick spent over 14 years at RIM/BlackBerry in a variety of roles, including overseeing sales channels and country marketing operations in various regions including North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, ultimately becoming the Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. During Patrick’s time at RIM/Blackberry, the company grew from $50 million in revenue to more than $20 billion, and from 150 people to more than 17,000. In 2007, Patrick was named one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40, a national program to celebrate leaders of today and tomorrow and to honor Canadians who have reached a significant level of success. Patrick holds an Honors Degree in Business and Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Dr. Jason Providakes is the president and chief executive officer of The MITRE Corporation. He leads the organization in its mission to serve the public interest as a systems engineering and applied sciences company bringing communities together to solve large-scale and complex problems of national importance. MITRE is known for its stewardship of federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) on behalf of U.S. government sponsors. Since joining MITRE in 1991, Dr. Providakes has held leadership positions on major programs to modernize federal infrastructure and create mission capabilities for national security, public health, the country’s veterans, and civil agencies. Prior to becoming president and CEO, he served as senior vice president and general manager of MITRE’s Center for Connected Government (CCG). The FFRDCs within CCG (now known as the MITRE Public Sector) include the Center for Enterprise Modernization, the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HSSEDI™), the Judiciary Engineering and Modernization Center, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Alliance to Modernize Healthcare (The Health FFRDC). He also served as director of HSSEDI and The Health FFRDC. Dr. Providakes began his career in the National Security Engineering Center, the FFRDC sponsored by the Department of Defense (DoD). He supported the DoD chief information officer to ensure programs involving strategic and theater systems benefited from a systems engineering approach. He has also served as chief engineer for MITRE’s Washington Command, Control, and Communications Center and as executive director for MITRE’s Army Systems & Technology Division, where he was central to the Army’s “digitize the battlefield” transformation. Dr. Providakes’ career is rooted in scientific research in support of national security. He has served as a member of the Army Science Board and participated in several studies of the National Academy of Sciences. An optical and remote sensing technical expert, Dr. Providakes has taught, performed research, and published extensively on radar backscatter of the Earth’s ionosphere. He holds a doctorate from Cornell University, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.