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About the Company

Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) creates effortless networking experiences that enable all of us to advance. We push the boundaries of technology leveraging the powers of machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, and automation. Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions and rely on our top-rated services and support to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver progress like never before.

About the Person

Eric Broockman has been Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Extreme Networks Inc. since February 14, 2014. Mr. Broockman founded Alereon Inc. in 2003 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Broockman served as Vice President, marketing in charge of Legerity's global marketing organization, including oversight of the marketing and engineering functions for new products entering the VoB market. Mr. Broockman has more than 23 years of leadership experience in the fabless semiconductor and communication IC industries, with specific experience in managing products, customer and strategic marketing, branding, marketing communications and public relations. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Acorn Networks. He served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Alchemy Semiconductor Inc., where he was instrumental in the fabless semiconductor company's successful spin-out from Cadence Design System's Austin Microprocessor Design Group, and its introduction of the world's highest performance, lowest power Internet edge processor system-on-a-chip (SOC). Mr. Broockman served as senior management positions at Cirrus Logic Inc., where he served as Vice President and General Manager of the Crystal Industrial and Communications Products Division and at IBM, where, during his 17 year tenure, he was a DSP product line manager for IBM Microelectronics, a product manager of High Bandwidth Systems, an SNA architecture manager, a senior technical staff member for IBM's networking products division, and a senior design engineer, with expertise in bipolar and NMOS technologies. He is an accomplished technology executive having held Chief Executive Officer and General Manager roles over the last 25 years. He serves as a Director of Alereon Inc. Mr. Broockman holds seven US patents and was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow. He graduated from the University of Florida with B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering. Mr. Broockman is also a graduate of the prestigious UNC Chapel-Hill Executive Program in Business Administration.