Board of Directors

Mr van Beurden (age 52), Chief Executive Officer, was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 November 2007.  He has over 15 years of experience in managing technology companies in the US and Europe.  Prior to joining CSR, Mr van Beurden was Chief Executive of NexWave Inc., a provider of embedded software solutions for the consumer electronics market based in France. Before joining NexWave, Mr van Beurden held senior positions at Canesta Inc., a fabless semiconductor company in San Jose, California and Philips Components also in San Jose.  Prior to that, Mr van Beurden had worked for five years for management and strategy consultants McKinsey & Company in Amsterdam. Mr van Beurden has also worked as a crude oil trader for Royal Dutch Shell in Rotterdam and lectured in Physics and Electronics at the University of Zambia in Lusaka. In January 2009, Mr van Beurden was appointed a director of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), a not-for-profit organisation supporting collaboration, supply chain integration and innovation in the global semiconductor industry. He was appointed Chairman of the GSA in December 2011 after serving as a Vice Chairman since December 2009. Mr van Beurden holds a Masters degree in Applied Physics from Twente University of Technology in Enschede, The Netherlands. 

Mr Ladas (age 67), Operations Director, was appointed a director of CSR on 1 January 2008. He joined the Company in May 2000 when he served as CSR’s Executive Vice President, Operations.  He has been instrumental in establishing CSR’s supply chain partnership with TSMC, world leader in wafer foundry operations and ASE, the largest assembly and test subcontractor in the industry.  Mr Ladas currently serves as Executive Vice President Operations. Between January 1996 and May 2000, Mr Ladas served as the vice president of operations at Micro Linear Corporation. Prior to 1996, Mr Ladas held several managerial and technical positions at National Semiconductor, Fairchild, Harris, Sperry, Motorola and Signetics. Mr Ladas holds a BS in Chemistry from Arizona State University, USA. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the Europe, Middle East and Africa Leadership Council of the Global Semiconductor Alliance. 

Mr Allner (age 59), a non-executive director, joined CSR as a non-executive director on 1 October 2008. Mr Allner was appointed Chairman of the Audit Committee on 27 May 2009 and is also a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees. Mr Allner is a chartered accountant with extensive experience in senior executive and non-executive positions.  Mr Allner is currently Chairman of Marshalls plc, a non-executive director, senior independent director and Chairman of the Audit Committee at AZ Electronic Materials SA and The Go-Ahead Group plc, a non-executive director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Northgate plc and a non-executive Chairman of Fox Marble Holdings plc.   Mr Allner was Group Finance Director of RHM plc, taking a lead role in its flotation in July 2005 on the London Stock Exchange. Prior to joining RHM plc, Mr Allner was CEO of Enodis PLC. Mr Allner has also served in senior executive positions with Dalgety PLC, Amersham International PLC and Guinness PLC. He is a former partner of Price Waterhouse and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford. 

Dr Levy Gerzberg (age 67), a non-executive director, joined the Board of CSR as a non-executive director on 31 August 2011 following the acquisition by CSR of Zoran Corporation where he was co-founder, President, CEO and Director. Dr Gerzberg has over 30 years experience in the high technology industry in areas related to ICs, software and systems utilising digital signal processing in consumer electronics, communications, PCs, military and medical electronics markets. Prior to co-founding Zoran, Dr. Gerzberg was Associate Director of Stanford University’s Electronics Laboratory, where he managed, conducted research and taught. He was named Northern California’s “2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year” in the Semiconductor category, and in 2004, he was honoured as the recipient of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce International Partnership award. Dr Gerzberg holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MS in Medical Electronics and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He is currently serving his second term on the Consumer Electronics Association’s Board of Industry Leaders.