Executive Team

Ronald Black, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Black has over 20 years of experience managing businesses and running companies in global semiconductor and mobile markets. As president and CEO, Dr. Ronald Black provides the overall vision and leadership necessary to drive future growth for the Company. Prior to Rambus, Dr. Black held positions of chief executive officer for MobiWire, formerly Sagem Wireless, UPEK, which later merged with AuthenTec, and Wavecom, a publicly-traded French wireless solutions company. In addition, Dr. Black has served as executive vice president of the Client Systems Group at Agere Systems as well as holding a number of senior executive roles at other companies, including Motorola and IBM Microelectronics. Dr. Black holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Cornell University.

Kevin Donnelly, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Memory and Interfaces

Kevin Donnelly, senior vice president and general manager of the Memory and Interface Division, , leads the development of the Company's DRAM and high-speed link technology. Prior to this position, Mr. Donnelly served as the senior vice president of both IP Strategy and Engineering, where he led business strategy and future technology development for the Company. Earlier, Mr. Donnelly served as vice-president, Logic Interface Division, where he led the development and deployment of logic interface products. Before joining Rambus, Mr. Donnelly held engineering positions at National Semiconductor, Sipex and Memorex. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and a master's degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University. Mr. Donnelly holds numerous patents in the area of high-speed clocking and I/O circuits.

David Eggleston, Senior Vice President, Non-Volatile Memory/Storage Division

David Eggleston, senior vice president, leads the Company's Non-Volatile Memory and Storage division. Mr. Eggleston was the CEO of Unity Semiconductor, which was acquired by Rambus in February 2012. He joined Unity in 2007 as Vice President of Engineering and Marketing, and was appointed CEO in 2010. Prior to Unity, Mr. Eggleston built and spearheaded the NAND Systems Engineering organization at Micron and ran it for 12 years. Mr. Eggleston has built and managed R&D organizations at successful non‐volatile memory start‐ups MQD (acquired by Micron) and SanDisk. Mr. Eggleston received his MS in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Duke University.

Paul Kocher, President and Chief Scientist, Cryptography Research Division

Paul Kocher, senior vice president and president of the Cryptography Research division of Rambus, has gained an international reputation for his research and innovative designs in cryptography. His accomplishments include discovering timing attacks and differential power analysis (including techniques for preventing against these vulnerabilities), helping author the widely used SSL 3.0 standard, and leading the design of the record breaking DES Key Search machine. He has recently focused on developing anti-piracy technologies for securing digital content. Paul was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009. Prior to founding Cryptography Research, Paul held positions at RSA Security and was a founding member of Valicert, Inc. (now Tumbleweed). He holds a bachelor of science degree from Stanford University.

Thomas Lavelle, Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Thomas Lavelle, senior vice president and general counsel, is responsible for the overall legal direction of the Company, including securities, compliance, intellectual property, and litigation. Mr. Lavelle served as vice president and general counsel at Xilinx, one of the world's leading suppliers of programmable chips, where he oversaw all legal matters. Mr. Lavelle joined Xilinx in 1999 after spending more than 15 years at Intel Corporation where he held various positions in the legal department. Mr. Lavelle earned his J.D. degree from Santa Clara University School of Law and his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Jeffery Parker, President, Lighting and Display Technology

Jeffery Parker, senior vice president and president of the Lighting and Display Technology Division, leads the Company's lighting and display business. Prior to joining Rambus, Mr. Parker was co-founder and CEO of Global Lighting Technologies. He also helped start Lumitex, a company primarily developing LCD backlighting and medical illuminators for phototherapy. Mr. Parker has over 25 years experience in technology and product development for the information display, LED, medical and lighting markets. He is the key inventor of MicroLens® technology and has been granted over 100 patents covering inventions in LCD backlighting, fiber optics, LEDs, light management films, general lighting, medical and other optoelectronics applications. Mr. Parker graduated from the University of Akron with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering.

Satish Rishi, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Satish Rishi as senior vice president of Finance and chief financial officer is responsible for the overall financial direction of the Company. Prior to joining Rambus, he held the position of executive vice president of Finance and chief financial officer of Toppan Photomasks, one of the world's leading photomask providers. During his 20-year career, Mr. Rishi has held senior financial management positions at semiconductor and electronic manufacturing companies. He served as vice president and assistant treasurer at Dell. Prior to Dell, Mr. Rishi spent 13 years at Intel, where he held financial management positions both in the U.S. and overseas. Mr. Rishi holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Delhi University, and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Michael Schroeder, Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Facilities

Michael Schroeder as senior vice president of Human Resources and Facilities is responsible for maintaining the open and collaborative culture at Rambus as well as leading the Company's efforts to implement compensation practices that align individual objectives with corporate goals. Prior to Rambus, Mr. Schroeder served as vice president of Human Resources for Digital Think and prior to that held various positions at Synopsys, most recently as vice president, Human Resources for Business Group Operations. He has also held human resources positions at Alphabox Corporation and Apple Computer. Mr. Schroeder attended the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee as a Russian language major.

Martin Scott, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer

Martin Scott, chief technology officer, leads the Company's platform development efforts, responsible for long-range research and development. Dr. Scott joined Rambus from PMC-Sierra where he was most recently vice president and general manager of its Microprocessor Division. Previously, Dr. Scott was vice president and general manager for I/O Solutions at Agilent Technologies. Dr. Scott started his professional career at HP Labs before holding various management positions at HP including ASIC Business Unit manager. He earned his bachelor's degree at Rice University and both a master's degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Laura Stark, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy

Laura Stark leads the Company's efforts of diversification as senior vice president of Corporate Strategy. Originally joining Rambus in 1996 as strategic accounts manager, Ms. Stark has held positions of vice president, Alliances and Infrastructure, vice president, Memory Interface Division, and senior vice president, Platform Solutions Group. Prior to joining Rambus, she held various positions in the Semiconductor Products Division of Motorola during a six-year tenure, including technical sales engineer for the Apple sales team, and field applications engineer for the Sun and SGI sales teams. Ms. Stark earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.