Ms. Handel served as Chief Financial Officer from October 22, 2004 through October 31, 2006. Ms. Handel retired from Applied on January 5, 2007. Nancy H. Handel has been a director of Broadcom since November 2005. Ms. Handel was the Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Applied Materials, Inc., a supplier of equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry, from October 2004 through November 2006. From November 2006 to January 2007, Ms. Handel served as Senior Vice President, Finance at Applied Materials and assisted in the transition with their new chief financial officer. She retired from Applied Materials in January 2007. From 1985 to October 2004 she served in various key financial leadership positions at Applied Materials, including four years as Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, and 13 years as Treasurer. Prior to joining Applied Materials, Ms. Handel held various financial management positions with Raychem Corporation, an electronics manufacturer, Crown Zellerbach Corporation, a paper manufacturing company, and two private early stage companies. She received a B.S. in Economics from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from The Ohio State University, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.