Credo Technology Group Appoints Jim Laufman as New Chief Legal Officer

Credo Technology Group Appoints Jim Laufman as New Chief Legal Officer

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Dan O’Neil
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Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (NASDAQ: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions, today announced that Jim Laufman has been appointed Chief Legal Officer (CLO) and Corporate Secretary.

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“I am thrilled to have Jim join the Credo leadership team,” said Bill Brennan, President and CEO of Credo Technology Group. “His extensive business and legal experience, especially in the connectivity space, will be indispensable as we manage new growth opportunities for all of our product lines. Jim’s collaborative approach, sharp business insight, and strong leadership will be a tremendous asset to our company.”

“It’s a privilege to join a company like Credo, which is pioneering groundbreaking product categories such as Active Electrical Cables and transforming the connectivity industry,” said Jim Laufman. “The potential for growth is both large and attainable, and I am eager to contribute to the company’s future successes alongside Bill and the team.”

Jim Laufman has led legal departments for several decades and served as general counsel for several public companies, including Integrated Device Technology, Marvell Technology, and Infinera Corporation. Most recently Jim served as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Automation Anywhere. Jim has a wide breadth of knowledge and significant experience in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, commercial contract negotiation, intellectual property licensing, litigation management, labor and employment matters, and enterprise risk management. Jim received his JD from Santa Clara University School of Law.

About Credo

Our mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G, 800G and the emerging 1.6T (or Terabits per second) port markets. Credo products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include Integrated Circuits (ICs) for the optical and line card markets, Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes Chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.

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