Robert E Grady

Mr. Grady has served as a director of Maxim Integrated since August 2008. Since October 2009, Mr. Grady has been a Managing Director at the Cheyenne Capital Fund, a private equity investment firm. Mr. Grady was appointed as Chairman of New Jerseys Council of Economic Advisors by Governor Chris Christie in January 2010, became a member of the New Jersey State Investment Council (which oversees the states $75 billion pension fund) in June 2010, and was elected Chairman of the New Jersey State Investment Council in September 2010. Mr. Grady was a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm, from 2000 to 2009, where he served as a member of the firms Management Committee; Chairman and Fund Head of Carlyles U.S. venture and growth capital group, Carlyle Venture Partners (CVP); on the investment committees of CVP, Carlyle Asia Growth Partners, and Carlyle Europe Technology Partners; and as a director of multiple Carlyle portfolio companies. Between 1993 and 2000, he was a Partner and Member of the Management Committee at Robertson Stephens & Company, an emerging growth-focused investment banking firm. Previously, Mr. Grady served in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States of America, as Executive Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and as Associate Director of OMB for Natural Resources, Energy and Science. Mr. Grady is a former director of the National Venture Capital Association, and he served as Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association in 2006 and 2007. From 1993 to 2004, Mr. Grady served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a Lecturer in Public Management. In addition to Maxim Integrated, Mr. Grady currently serves on the board of directors of Stifel Financial Corp., a financial services firm focused on investment banking and asset management, and of several privately-held companies. From July 2004 to June 2010, Mr. Grady also served on the board of directors of AuthenTec, Inc., a maker of fingerprint identification semiconductors, and from September 2009 to July 2010, Mr. Grady served on the board of directors of Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc., which was acquired by Stifel Financial Corp. Mr. Grady holds an A.B. degree from Harvard College and a M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.