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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
	Louis DiNardo	Director
	Pierre G. Guilbault	Director
	Brian Hilton	Director
	Richard L. Leza	Chairman
	Gary Meyers	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): Brian Hilton, Izak Bencuya, Gary Meyers
	Compensation Committee	Chairperson: Izak Bencuya
		Member(s): Izak Bencuya, Richard L. Leza, Gary Meyers, Pierre G. Guilbault (Observer)
	Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee	Chairperson: Richard L. Leza
		Member(s): Richard L. Leza, Brian Hilton, Izak Bencuya, Pierre G. Guilbault (Observer)

The Company's Corporate Governance Principles are available as a PDF file 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

The Company's Certificate of Incorporation of Exar Corporation is available as a PDF file by clicking the link below.

Certificate of Incorporation of Exar Corporation

The Company's Bylaws of Exar Corporation (a Delaware Corporation) is available as a PDF file by clicking the link below.

Bylaws of Exar Corporation (a Delaware Corporation)

Executive Officers

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

	Louis DiNardo	President and Chief Executive Officer
	Kevin S. Bauer	Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
	Chris Dingley	Executive Vice President of World Wide Sales
	Diane Hill	Vice President, Human Resources
	Frank Marazita	Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations/Reliability & Quality Assurance
	Thomas R. Melendrez	General Counsel, Secretary and Executive Vice President, Business Development
	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 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Exar Corporation was held on August 31, 2011. The meeting took place at the Company's Corporate Headquarters, 48720 Kato Road, Fremont, CA 94538.


Independent Auditors

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
488 Almaden Blvd (Suite 1800)
San Jose, CA 95110

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