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The Board of Directors

A short biography of each Board member is available by clicking on the Board member's name.

	Izak Bencuya	Director
	Pierre G. Guilbault	Director
	Brian Hilton	Director
	Richard L. Leza	Chairman
	Gary Meyers	Director
	J. Oscar Rodriguez	Director
	Pete Rodriguez	Director

The Company currently has three standing committees which are listed below. Each committee charter is available as a pdf file by clicking on the committee name.

	Audit Committee	Chairperson: Brian Hilton
		Member(s): Izak Bencuya, Gary Meyers, J. Oscar Rodriguez
	Compensation Committee	Chairperson: Izak Bencuya
		Member(s): Richard L. Leza, J. Oscar Rodriguez
	Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee	Chairperson: Richard L. Leza
		Member(s): Brian Hilton, J. Oscar Rodriguez

The Company's Corporate Governance Principles are available as pdf files by clicking the link below.

Corporate Governance Principles

The Company's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is available as a pdf file by clicking the link below.

Code of Business Conduct and Ethics

Executive Officers

A short biography of each Executive Officer is available by clicking on the officer's name.

	Pete Rodriguez	Chief Executive Officer and President
	George Apostol	Executive Vice President, Engineering and Operations and Chief Technology Officer
	Kevin S. Bauer	Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
	Diane Hill	Vice President, Human Resources
	Bentley Long	Vice President, Worldwide Sales
	Frank Marazita	Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations/Reliability & Quality Assurance
	Thomas R. Melendrez	General Counsel, Secretary and Executive Vice President, Business Development
	Paul Pickering	Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing
	Trong Vu	Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology
	Jiebing Wang	Vice President of Acceleration Technology; General Manager of China Development Center

The Company has adopted a Policy Code of Ethics for Principle Executives, Executive Management and Senior Financial Officers which is available as a pdf file by clicking the link below.

Executive Ethics Policy

The Company has adopted a Financial Integrity Compliance Policy which is available as a pdf file by clicking the link below.

Financial Integrity Compliance Policy

Annual Meeting

The 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Exar Corporation was held on September 16, 2009. The meeting took place at the Company's Corporate Headquarters, 48720 Kato Road, Fremont, CA 94538.


Independent Auditors

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Ten Almaden Boulevard, Ste. 1600
San Jose, CA 95113


Outside Counsel

O'Melveny & Myers LLP
2765 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025-7019


Registrar and Transfer Agent

Computershare Trust Company, N.A.
250 Royall Street
Canton, MA 02021