Board of Directors

David Dominik
David Dominik has been a Managing Director of Golden Gate Capital since its inception in 2000. Prior to co-founding Golden Gate Capital, Mr. Dominik spent ten years as a managing director at Bain Capital. While there, he successfully focused on making operationally intensive growth investments, with a particular emphasis in the information, software, semiconductor and electronic hardware industries.

The common theme for Mr. Dominik has been partnering with management to pursue buyouts of companies applying technology or operating in technology-related industries. Mr. Dominik was responsible for managing Information Partners, a specialized fund within Bain Capital that focused on opportunities in the information services and software markets. Mr. Dominik also served on the investment committee of Brookside, Bain Capital's public equity hedge fund. In addition, Mr. Dominik opened and ran the California office for Bain Capital.

Previously, Mr. Dominik was a partner at Zero Stage Capital, an early stage technology venture capital firm where he helped co-found several successful technology ventures. He was an early investor and assistant to the chairman of Genzyme Corporation. He also served as a Consultant at Bain & Company.

Education
J.D. from Harvard Law School (cum laude)
A. B. in Social Studies (Economics & History) from Harvard College (magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa)

Stefan Kaluzny
Stefan Kaluzny is a Managing Director and joined Golden Gate Capital at its founding in 2000. Prior to joining Golden Gate Capital, Mr. Kaluzny conceived and co-founded Delray Farms, a Hispanic specialty food company. At Delray Farms, he led the growth of the company from a startup to $100 Million in 3 years. At Golden Gate Capital, Mr. Kaluzny has focused on transactions in several sectors including software, semiconductors, information services, consumer products and retailing.

Prior to co-founding Delray Farms, Mr. Kaluzny was a Consultant at Bain & Company. He was a member of the private equity group, and advised clients regarding portfolio companies in the airline and consumer products industries. Prior to joining Bain & Company, Mr. Kaluzny was an Associate with the LEK Partnership and President of K-Software International.

Education
M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar)
B.A. in History from Yale University

Prescott Ashe
Prescott Ashe has been a Managing Director of Golden Gate Capital since its inception. Prior to joining Golden Gate Capital, Mr. Ashe was a Principal at Bain Capital, which he initially joined in 1991. While at Bain Capital, Mr. Ashe spent the majority of his time working in close tandem with Mr. Dominik in the sourcing, negotiating, structuring, closing, and monitoring of technology buyouts.

Mr. Ashe has more than 10-years of private equity investing experience spanning both growth-equity and management buyout transactions. During his career, he has participated in more than 30 acquisitions/ recapitalizations with aggregate enterprise values of approximately $3.0 billion. Mr. Ashe focuses on the following industry segments: electronic manufacturing and other outsourced services; semiconductors; IT services; and traditional manufacturing.

Prior to Bain Capital, Mr. Ashe was a consultant at Bain & Company.

Education
J.D. from Stanford Law School
B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley (first in his class)

Steve Laub
Steven Laub has over 15 years experience in executive level roles in the semiconductor industry, most recently as President and CEO of Silicon Image Corporation, a leader in multi-gigabit semiconductor solutions. Prior to Silicon Image, Mr. Laub served as President and a Member of the Board of Directors of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation. During his tenure at Lattice, revenues grew from $39 million to a high of $568 million and Mr. Laub held management responsibility for an organization with over 800 staff members worldwide. At Lattice he was responsible for the negotiation and subsequent integration of several acquisitions, including the $500 million acquisition of Vantis Corporation from AMD and the $250 million acquisition of Agere's FPGA business.

Prior to Lattice Semiconductor, Mr. Laub was a partner at Bain & Company where he was a founding member of Bain's west coast technology practice and advised clients in the semiconductor, PC peripheral, data storage and software industries.

Education
J.D. from Harvard Law School (cum laude)
B.A. in Economics, University of California Los Angeles (summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa)

Gerald Fitch
President and Chief Executive Officer
Gerald Fitch is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Teridian Semiconductor Corp. In this role he is responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the company, business development and day-to-day operations. He was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer immediately following the acquisition of the company by Golden Gate Capital. Mr. Fitch joined Teridian’s predecessor company TDK Semiconductor Corp. as Chief Financial Officer in August 2000, and became Chief Operating Officer in August 2004.

Before joining Teridian, from 1997 to 2000 Mr. Fitch served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Airport Group International, a privately-held worldwide property development and management services provider owned by General Electric, Bechtel, and the Soros Quantum fund. From 1991 to 1997 Mr. Fitch was Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller of UnionBanCal Corporation and its primary subsidiary Union Bank, one of the 30 largest financial institutions in the United States.

Mr. Fitch received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Southern California.

David Gruetter
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
David Gruetter has 20 years of engineering and engineering management experience in development of mixed signal and DSP based ICs for communications and storage applications. Prior to joining TDK in 2000, he was Texas Instruments' director of engineering for magnetic storage and home networking read/write channels. He had previously held senior engineering positions with Silicon Systems, Inc., which was acquired by Texas Instruments in 1996.

Mr. Gruetter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, and a second Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Computer Science, both from the University of California, Irvine.