Board of Directors - Silicon Laboratories

Nav Sooch

Mr. Sooch co-founded Silicon Labs in August 1996 and has served as Chairman of the Board since our inception. Mr. Sooch served as Chief Executive Officer from August 1996 to December 2003 and as interim Chief Executive Officer from April 2005 to September 2005. Mr. Sooch also served as the CEO of Ketra, Inc., a private company in the field of solid-state lighting, from October 2011 to April 2018. Prior to founding Silicon Labs, Mr. Sooch held various positions at Crystal Semiconductor/CirrusLogic, a designer and manufacturer of integrated circuits, including Vice President of Engineering and was a Design Engineer with AT&T BellLabs. Mr. Sooch holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Dearborn and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson serves as President and CEO of Silicon Labs, a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world. Prior to becoming CEO, Matt led the company’s Internet of Things (IoT) business unit through a period of accelerating growth and industry leadership. Silicon Labs is now solely focused on technology solutions to enable smart, connected devices, which are transforming industries, growing economies, and improving lives and our environment. Before joining Silicon Labs, Matt held leadership positions at NXP, Freescale, and Fairchild Semiconductor. Matt is dedicated to a strong company culture, innovative product development and operational excellence. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from the University of Maine and has completed executive programs at Harvard Business School and Stanford University. Matt currently serves on the Board of Directors of Novanta, the Semiconductor Industry Association, and the Board of Trustees of Dell Children's Medical Center Foundation.

Bill Bock

Mr. Bock originally joined Silicon Labs’ Board of Directors in 2000 and served as Chairman of the audit committee until he joined the management team and was appointed CFO in 2006. He was re-appointed to the board of directors in mid-2011, returning as interim CFO in early 2013 and was then appointed President in mid-2013 before retiring from the management team in early 2016. Mr. Bock previously participated in the venture capital industry, principally as a partner with CenterPoint Ventures. Before his venture career, Mr. Bock held senior executive positions with three venture-backed companies, Dazel Corporation, Tivoli Systems and Convex Computer Corporation. He began his career with Texas Instruments. Mr. Bock currently serves as Chairman of the Board of SolarWinds Corporation (NYSE: SWI) and Chairman of the Board of N-able Inc. (NYSE: NABL). Mr. Bock also currently serves on the Board of SailPoint Technologies, a private technology company. Mr. Bock holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University and an M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.

Gregg Lowe

Mr. Lowe has served as a Director of Silicon Labs since 2017. Mr. Lowe served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Wolfspeed, Inc. (NYSE: WOLF), an innovator of lighting-class LEDs, lighting products and Wolfspeed™ power and radio frequency (RF) semiconductors, from 2017 until November of 2024. He previously served as President and CEO of Freescale Semiconductor from June 2012 until its merger with NXP (NASDAQ: NXPI) in 2015. Prior, Mr. Lowe served as senior vice president and manager of the Analog business for Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) where he helped to direct the acquisition of National Semiconductor. During his 27 years at Texas Instruments, he held various leadership positions across field sales, automotive sales, marketing, and integrated circuits where he oversaw a global team with design centers and customers on every continent. Mr. Lowe currently serves on the boards of Wolfspeed, the Semiconductor Industry Association, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), where he serves as a trustee, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio and St. Edward’s High School in Lakewood, Ohio. Mr. Lowe has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana and is a graduate from the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University. Mr. Lowe has been recognized for his accomplishments in the community and within the semiconductor industry as the recipient of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Career Achievement Award.

Sherri Luther

Ms. Luther joined the Silicon Labs Board of Directors in January 2022. Ms. Luther currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a global leader in materials, networking, and lasers. Prior to Coherent, Ms. Luther served as the Chief Financial Officer of Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), a global leader of low power programmable FPGAs. Prior to Lattice, Ms. Luther was a senior financial executive at Coherent, most recently serving as Corporate Vice President of Finance where she oversaw large scale acquisitions and provided thought leadership and strategic direction across 40 global sites. Previously, she held a number of senior finance and accounting positions at companies including Quantum Corporation, Ultra Network Technologies and Arthur Andersen. Ms. Luther holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, with a dual major in Accounting and Finance, from Wright State University. Ms. Luther is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant), is NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) Directorship Certified and graduated from the Executive MBA Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Ms. Luther has been recognized for her high ethical and professional standards and received the ‘CFO of the Year’ Award from the Business Journal in Portland, Oregon as well as the ‘Woman CFO of the Year’ by the Financial Executives International (FEI) Silicon Valley Association.

Nina Richardson

Ms.Richardson has served as a Director of Silicon Labs since 2016. Ms.Richardson was previously the Chief Operating Officer at Go Pro where she led Engineering, Operations, Sales, Sales Operations, Support and Human Resources. She also held a variety of executive positions at global EMS provider, Flex, including Vice President and GM where she managed several manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Mexico. Ms.Richardson is also a board member of public companies, Resideo Technologies, Inc.(NYSE:REZI), a global provider and distributor of comfort and security solutions and Cohu, Inc.(NASDAQ:COHU), a global provider of back-end semiconductor equipment and services. She is also a board member for Tonal, a privately held smart-fitness equipment and services company. She was previously a director of SGI, until its sale to HPE, Callidus Cloud, until its sale to SAP, Zayo Group and Eargo (NASDAQ:EAR). She holds a B.S.in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University.

Sumit Sadana

Mr. Sadana has served as a Director of Silicon Labs since 2015 and became Lead Director in 2022. He is currently the Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology, and he has been in this role since 2017. In this role, Mr. Sadana is responsible for all the business units in Micron, the company P&L, as well as company strategy and global communications and marketing. In 2022, he also served as Micron’s Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Sadana has over 30 years of technology industry experience, in roles ranging from chip design, software development, operations management, strategy development and IP licensing, to executive roles such as CTO, CFO and GM. He has served in leadership positions at SanDisk, Freescale Semiconductor and IBM. Sumit has completed approximately $40 billion of M&A in his career. Mr. Sadana has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (India) and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Christy Wyatt

Ms. Wyatt has served as a Director of Silicon Labs since 2019. Ms. Wyatt has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Absolute Software Corporation, an endpoint security and data risk management company that was publicly traded on both the Nasdaq and Toronto Stock Exhange until its acquisition by Crosspoint Capital Partners in July 2023. Ms. Wyatt currently is a director of Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), a position she has held since 2023. Ms. Wyatt previously served as a director of Quotient Technology, Inc. (NYSE: QUOT), a digital promotions, media and analytics company, from July 2018 to April 2022. Ms. Wyatt previously served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Good Technology Corporation from 2013, leading to its acquisition by Blackberry in 2015, and also served as President and Chief Executive Officer and Director of Dtex Systems, a threat detection company, from 2016 to 2018. Ms. Wyatt has held leadership positions in the technology industry within Citigroup, Motorola, Apple, Palm and Sun Microsystems and also served as a board member for Centrify. Ms. Wyatt as named “CEO of the Year” by the Globe and Mail in 2020, one of the “Top 50 Women in Saas” by the Software Report in 2019, a “Top 50 Women Entrepreneur in America” by Inc. Magazine, “CEO of the Year” by Information Security Global Excellence Awards and a “Most Influential Women in Wireless” by Fierce Wireless.