HK Desai Board’s Director, MaxLinear

MaxLinear, Inc., provider of integrated radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal integrated circuits for broadband communication applications, announced that HK Desai has been elected as the newest member of its board of directors.

 Desai joins MaxLinear with experience in scaling growth-oriented technology businesses, including leadership and executive positions at QLogic. He has served as chairman of the board of QLogic since 1999, and as executive chairman since 2010. From 1996 until 2010, he served as QLogic’s CEO. In these leadership roles, he focused QLogic’s resources on developing new markets and customers, led the I/O industry in innovative technology development, diversified into new markets and drove additional growth through acquisitions.

"We are extremely pleased to welcome HK to the MaxLinear board of directors," said Kishore Seendripu, Ph.D., chairman, and CEO of MaxLinear. "His experience and outstanding accomplishments in the very competitive networking and storage markets, and specifically his proven ability to profitably expand and scale into new businesses, is exactly what MaxLinear needs as we continue charting our path to growing the company and creating value for our customers and shareholders."

"I am excited to be able to combine my hard-fought experience in successfully growing new businesses with an outstanding technology platform such as MaxLinear," Desai commented. "MaxLinear’s outstanding engineering talent and differentiated analog/RF architectures position it well to participate in exciting growth markets, and I look forward to helping steer MaxLinear’s future."