Mr. Kiddoo, 45, joined Broadcom in 1999 as Controller of the Broadband Communications Business Unit. He became the company's Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer in July 2002, and in January 2003 he was elected a Vice President. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Kiddoo held various senior financial management positions for over five years at LSI Logic Corporation. Previously he held various financial positions at IBM and in the United States Navy, where he worked in Naval Reactors. He received a B.S. in Applied Science from the United States Naval Academy and an M.B.A. from the College of William and Mary. In his nearly seven years with Broadcom, Mr. Kiddoo has had a wide variety of financial responsibilities, including leadership of business unit finance, company-wide financial reviews, and the company's implementation of internal controls mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. For the past four years he has been second in command in the Finance department, with responsibility for all operational finance and accounting matters. He has also represented Broadcom at financial conferences and in meetings with analysts and investors. Mr. Kiddoo will continue in the position of Vice President and Corporate Controller while serving as Acting Chief Financial Officer. He also serves as a director and officer of certain Broadcom subsidiaries.