Board of Directors

Rob Chandra, Director

Rob S. Chandra has been a member of Mellanox's board of directors since November 2001. Mr. Chandra is a general partner of Bessemer Venture Partners, or Bessemer, a venture capital firm, which he joined in September 2000.  Prior to joining Bessemer, Mr. Chandra was a general partner with Commonwealth Capital Ventures, a venture capital firm, from January 1996 to September 2000. From September 1993 to December 1995, Mr. Chandra was an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm. Previously, from September 1988 to September 1993, Mr. Chandra was a consultant at Accenture, a management consulting and technology services company. Mr. Chandra holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Irwin Federman, Director

Irwin Federman has served as a member of Mellanox's board of directors since June 1999.  Mr. Federman has been a general partner of U.S. Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, since April 1990. From 1988 to 1990, he was a managing director of Dillon Read & Co., an investment banking firm, and a general partner in its venture capital affiliate, Concord Partners. From 1978 to 1987, Mr. Federman was president and chief executive officer of Monolithic Memories, Inc., a semiconductor company which was acquired by AMD in 1987. Mr. Federman serves on the boards of directors of SanDisk Corporation, a data storage company, Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd., an Internet security software company, and a number of private companies. Mr. Federman was two-term chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association, has served on the board of directors of the National Venture Capital Association and served two terms on the Dean’s Advisory Board of Santa Clara University. Mr. Federman holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Brooklyn College.

Amal M. Johnson, Director

Amal M. Johnson has served on Mellanox's board of directors since October 2006. Ms. Johnson is currently the chief executive officer of MarketTools, Inc., a market research company. Prior to joining MarketTools, Inc., Ms. Johnson was a venture partner of ComVentures, L.P. from April 2004 to March 2005, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, focusing on enterprise software and infrastructure, from March 1999 to March 2004. Previously, Ms. Johnson was president of Baan Supply Chain Solutions from January 1998 to December 1998, an enterprise resource planning, or ERP, software company, president of Baan Affiliates, an ERP software company, from January 1997 to December 1997, and president of Baan Americas, an ERP software company, from October 1994 to December 1996. Prior to that, Ms. Johnson served as president of ASK Manufacturing Systems, an MRP software company, from August 1993 to July 1994 and held executive positions at IBM from 1977 to June 1993. Ms. Johnson also serves on the board of directors of Opsource, Inc. and MarketTools, Inc.

Tom Riordan, Director

Tom Riordan is currently the president and chief executive officer of Exclara, a fabless semiconductor supplier of ICs for Solid-State Lighting. Most recently, Mr. Riordan was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Bessemer Venture Partners. Prior to Bessemer Venture Partners, Mr. Riordan was Vice President of PMC-Sierra's microprocessor division. Mr. Riordan joined PMC-Sierra when it purchased Quantum Effect Devices (QED), the company he co-founded in 1991. Prior to QED, Mr. Riordan was director of CMOS VLSI for MIPS Computer Systems, where he led development efforts for the R4000 64-bit microprocessor and the M2000 20 mips computer system. He was the principal logic designer of the R2000 RISC microprocessor and the lead designer of the R2010 floating-point co-processor. Mr. Riordan joined MIPS after serving as design engineer with both Weitek Corporation and Intel. Mr. Riordan holds a B.S. in Engineering, a B.A. in Government, and an M.S. in Engineering, all from Florida Technological University/University of Central Florida.

Eyal Waldman, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Eyal Waldman is a co-founder of Mellanox, and has served as Mellanox's chief executive officer, president and chairman of Mellanox's board of directors since March 1999. From March 1993 to February 1999, Mr. Waldman served as vice president of engineering and was a cofounder of Galileo Technology Ltd., or Galileo, a semiconductor company, which was acquired by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. in January 2001. From August 1989 to March 1993, Mr. Waldman held a number of design and architecture related positions at Intel Corporation, a manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Mr. Waldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

Thomas Weatherford, Director

C. Thomas Weatherford has been a member of our board of directors since November 2005.  From August 1997 until his retirement in December 2002, Mr. Weatherford served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Business Objects SA, a provider of business intelligence software. Mr. Weatherford also serves on the boards of directors of Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc., a maker of analog and power semiconductors, SMART Modular Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of memory products, Tesco Corporation, a global provider of technology-based solutions to the upstream energy industry, InfoUSA, Inc., a provider of sales leads, mailing lists, direct marketing, database marketing, e-mail marketing and market research solutions and several private companies.  Mr. Weatherford holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Houston. Mr. Weatherford is located in the United States.