Executive Biographies
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Abhi Talwalkar Abhi Talwalkar was appointed LSI president and chief executive officer in May 2005 and was elected to the company's board of directors at the same time. Talwalkar joined LSI from Intel Corporation, where he served as vice president and co-general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, which is comprised of Intel's business client, server, storage, and communications businesses. Previously, he served as vice president and general manager for the Intel Enterprise Platform Group. In this position he focused on developing, marketing, and supporting Intel business strategies for enterprise computing. Prior to joining Intel in 1993, Talwalkar held senior engineering and marketing management positions at Sequent Computer Systems (now part of IBM), Bipolar Integrated Technology Inc., and Lattice Semiconductor Inc. Talwalkar received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1985. Read Abhi Talwalkar's full biography.
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Phil Bullinger Phil Bullinger is responsible for the direction and management of all aspects of LSI’s Engenio Storage Group and its portfolio of SAN-attached storage systems and server-attached RAID storage software and adapters. Before assuming this expanded role in 2008, he was responsible for the strategic planning, business development, R&D, and operations activities of the business and its financial performance. He was elected a corporate officer in 2005. From 2001 through 2005, Bullinger was vice president and general manager of the LSI RAID Storage Adapters Division. He joined LSI in 1998. Bullinger graduated magna cum laude from Kansas State University with a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering and magna cum laude from National Technological University, Fort Collins, Colorado, with a master's degree in management of technology.
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Bryon Look Bryon Look is responsible for the overall management and direction of the LSI worldwide finance, information technology, investor relations, corporate marketing and corporate development functions. Prior to joining LSI in 1997, Look was manager of business development for the Hewlett Packard Corporate Development Department. During a 21-year career at HP, he held a variety of management positions in finance and research and development. Look was awarded a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 and a master's degree in corporate finance from Golden Gate University in 1994.
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Andrew Micallef Andy Micallef is responsible for LSI manufacturing operations. He oversees the company's quality and reliability, supply chain management, purchasing, Hong Kong logistics hub, external foundry engagement, and real estate/facilities functions. In his former position as executive vice president of Global Operations for Agere Systems, Micallef was responsible for Agere’s manufacturing and supply chain activities, including foundry operations, assembly and test operations, procurement, planning, and the India Design Center. He also served as vice president of Front-End Operations and vice president of Supply Chain Management and Quality. Before joining Agere in 2000, Micallef held positions at Fujitsu-ICL Systems, IBM and General Dynamics. Micallef earned master's degrees in general management and mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
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Jean F. Rankin Rankin serves LSI and its board of directors as corporate secretary in addition to managing the company's legal, intellectual property licensing and stock administration organizations. Rankin joined LSI in 2007 as part of the merger with Agere Systems where she was executive vice president, general counsel and secretary. Prior to Agere, Rankin was responsible for corporate governance and corporate center legal support at Lucent Technologies, including mergers and acquisitions, securities laws, labor and employment, public relations, ERISA, investor relations and treasury. She also supervised legal support for the microelectronics business. Rankin has worked for AT&T, AT&T Capital Corporation, and the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore. She was a clerk for Justice G. Mennen Williams on the Michigan State Supreme Court. Rankin received her law degree, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was elected a member of the Order of the Coif. She earned a bachelor’s degree with high distinction from the University of Virginia.
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Jeff Richardson Jeff Richardson is responsible for LSI silicon solutions across all segments of data networking/communications, server, hard disk drive, enterprise tape and storage systems markets. Richardson joined the company in June 2005 from Intel Corporation, where he served as vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group and general manager of the Server Platform Group. Before that Richardson was vice president and general manager of the Intel Enterprise Solutions and Services Division. Before joining Intel in 1992, Richardson held engineering positions at Altera Corporation, Chips and Technologies (the first fabless semiconductor company), and Amdahl Corporation. Richardson earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado in 1987.
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Gautam Srivastava Gautam Srivastava is responsible for the direction, planning, development, implementation and administration of LSI benefits, compensation, EEO, employee relations, security, human resources systems, staffing and learning/organizational development functions. Before joining LSI in 2009, Srivastava was vice president of Advanced Micro Devices' Compensation and Benefits organization, where he worked closely with AMD's board, CEO and line management to completely revamp AMD's compensation and benefits programs during a change in strategy and through several acquisitions and divestitures.
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