Brian L Halla

Mr. Halla is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of National. From 1996 until the beginning of the 2006 fiscal year, he was also President of National. He came to National from LSI Logic Corporation where he was Executive Vice President of LSI Logic Products. He had also held positions at LSI Logic Corporation as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Microprocessor/DSP Products Group and Vice President and General Manager, Microprocessor Products Group. Prior to that, he was with Intel Corporation for 14 years, where his last position was Director of Marketing for Intel's Microcomputer Group. Mr. Halla is a director of Cisco Systems, Inc.