Board of Directors

Hugh Barnes Hugh Barnes
Chairman of the Board

R. Hugh Barnes has served as Chairman of our Board of Directors since May 2007, as a director of Transmeta since November 1998, and as President and Chief Operating Officer of Transmeta from October 2001 to April 2002. Mr. Barnes served as a business advisor to Transmeta from March 1997 to November 1998.

From April 1984 to January 1997, Mr. Barnes was employed at Compaq Computer Corporation, a computer manufacturer, where he held a variety of positions, most recently as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer. Mr. Barnes also serves on the Board of Directors of several privately held companies.

Mr. Barnes holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University.


Lester M. Crudele Lester M. Crudele
President and Chief Executive Officer

Lester M. Crudele was appointed Transmeta's president and chief executive officer in February 2007. He originally joined Transmeta's board of directors in June 2005.

Les began his career at Motorola, where he was chief architect for several Motorola MC 68000-series microprocessors and served in a variety of management positions, most recently returning to Motorola in 1990 and serving as vice president and general manager of its RISC Microprocessor Division from 1991 to 1997. He also has senior management experience at several computer systems companies, including Compaq, where he served as vice president and general manager of Compaq's Workstation Products Division from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2000, he served on the board of directors and as a management consultant for Quantum Effect Devices until QED was acquired by PMC-Sierra in 2000. Most recently, from 2000 to 2004, he served on the board of directors of Banderacom, a privately held InfiniBand semiconductor company, for which he also served as president and CEO from 2000 to 2002. In addition, he has served on boards of directors for several privately held companies and industry groups.

Mr. Crudele holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University.


Robert V. Dickinson Robert Dickinson
Director

Robert V. Dickinson has served as a director of Transmeta since May 2005.

Mr. Dickinson has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors of California Micro Devices Corporation, a supplier of application specific analog semiconductor products for the mobile handset, personal computer and digital consumer electronics markets, since April 2001. From August 1999 to April 2001, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Optical Storage Division of Cirrus Logic, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer, where previously, starting in 1992, he served in several other senior executive roles, including President of its Japanese subsidiary. From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Dickinson held senior management positions at Western Digital Corporation, a semiconductor and disk drive manufacturer, following its acquisition of Verticom, Inc., where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1987 to 1988.

Mr. Dickinson holds an A.B. from University of California at Berkeley and an M.S. from the University of Washington, both in physics. He was also a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.


Murray Goldman Murray Goldman
Director

Murray A. Goldman has served as a director of Transmeta since November 1998, as Chairman of our Board of Directors from November 1998 to May 2007, and as Chief Executive Officer from October 2001 to April 2002. Dr. Goldman served as a business advisor to Transmeta from March 1997 to November 1998.

From July 1969 to January 1997, Dr. Goldman was employed at Motorola, a provider of integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions, where he held a variety of positions, most recently as Executive Vice President and Assistant General Manager of the Semiconductor Products Sector.

Dr. Goldman holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from New York University.


William P. Tai William P. Tai
Director

William P. Tai has served as a director of Transmeta since December 1995.

Since June 2002, Mr. Tai has served as a general partner of Charles River Ventures, a venture capital firm. Since July 1997, Mr. Tai has also served as a general partner and managing director of Institutional Venture Management, a venture capital firm. Mr. Tai also serves on the Board of Directors of Microtune, a provider of broadband wireless components, as well as the boards of directors of several privately held companies.

Mr. Tai holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.


T. Peter Thomas T. Peter Thomas
Director

T. Peter Thomas has served as a director of Transmeta since December 1995.

Mr. Thomas has served as Managing Director of ATA Ventures Management LLP since April 2004 and has been a General Partner of Institutional Venture Management since November 1985. Mr. Thomas also serves on the Board of Directors of Atmel Corp., a manufacturer of a broad range of high performance non-volatile memory and logic integrated circuits, as well as several privately held companies.

Mr. Thomas holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Utah State University and an M.S. in computer science from Santa Clara University.


Rick Timmins Rick Timmins
Director

Rick Timmins has served as a director of Transmeta since May 2003.

From January 1996 until his retirement in April 2007, Mr. Timmins was employed at Cisco Systems, Inc., a computer networking products company, where he held a series of financial management positions, most recently as Vice President of Finance. From January 1974 until December 1995, Mr. Timmins was employed at Motorola, a provider of integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions, where he held a series of financial management positions, most recently as Vice President and Controller of the Microprocessor, Memory and Microcontroller Group. Mr. Timmins also serves on the Board of Directors of Ultratech Stepper, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of photolithography equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductor and nanotechnology components.

He holds a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from the University of Arizona and an M.B.A. from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. Mr. Timmins is a Certified Public Accountant.