Broadcom Org chart
This Broadcom org chart highlights the company’s organizational structure and leadership team, including key executives such as Hock E. Tan (President & CEO) , Kirsten Spears (CFO & Chief Accounting Officer) , and Alan Davidson (CIO) . It provides a clear overview of the leadership team’s roles and how they work together to achieve organizational goals and ensure effective management across all functions.
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Broadcom Leadership Team
Executives
Profile Summary
Hock E. Tan
President & CEO
Mr. Tan has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and a director since March 2006. From September 2005 to January 2008, he served as Chairman of the board of directors of Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (“IDT”). Prior to becoming chairman of IDT, Mr. Tan was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Circuit Systems, Inc. (“ICS”), from June 1999 to September 2005. Prior to ICS, Mr. Tan was Vice President of Finance with Commodore International, Ltd. from 1992 to 1994, and previously held senior management positions with PepsiCo, Inc. and General Motors Corporation. Mr. Tan served as managing director of Pacven Investment, Ltd., a venture capital fund in Singapore from 1988 to 1992, and served as managing director for Hume Industries Ltd. in Malaysia from 1983 to 1988. Mr. Tan’s qualifications to serve on the Board include his role as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, his extensive career in the technology industry in general and in the semiconductor industry in particular, including service as the chairman of the board of directors of a publiclytraded semiconductor company, and his extensive knowledge of the Company’s business developed over the course of his career at our Company.
Kirsten Spears
CFO & Chief Accounting Officer
Kirsten Spears is Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer at Broadcom, overseeing all financial functions. Ms. Spears previously served as Vice President and Corporate Controller at Broadcom from May 2014 to December 2020 and prior to that was Vice President and Corporate Controller at LSI. She joined LSI in September of 1997 and held a number of management positions in accounting and reporting before becoming the Corporate Controller in 2007. Before LSI, Ms. Spears worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in audit; for Raychem, managing a variety of accounting functions; and for Bank of America, managing branch operations. Ms. Spears holds an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.
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Alan Davidson
CIO
Alan Davidson is Chief Information Officer of the Global Technology Organization at Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for the continuous evolution of the technology landscape, e-business application suite, and hardware and software product hosting. Mr. Davidson has held a variety of key leadership positions during his lengthy tenure at Broadcom and its legacy companies HP, Agilent and Avago, overseeing Enterprise Infrastructure, Data Center management, Software product hosting, SaaS Operations, Customer Support Platforms, Fab applications, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, among others. Mr. Davidson received a B.Sc. in Computing Science from the University of the West of Scotland.
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Dr Shiva Narayan
Ibank CTO - Enterprise Architect , Product Owner
Dr. Shiva Narayan is an accomplished technology leader with extensive experience in enterprise architecture and banking transformation. Currently serving as the iBANK CTO and Enterprise Architect at Broadcom, Dr. Narayan has held significant positions including Chief Architect at the Bank of England and Enterprise Architect at AIB. Additionally, prior roles include Director of Banking Transformation at Accenture and Software Engineer at CA Technologies, where Dr. Narayan contributed to various high-impact projects in the financial sector.
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Joe Burke
Chief Software Architect & Distinguished Engineer
Joe Burke is a seasoned technology professional with extensive experience in software architecture and engineering. Currently serving as Chief Software Architect and Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom Software, Joe has previously held the title of Chief Software Architect at Broadcom Symantec. Additionally, Joe has served as Director at Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company, and held the position of Vice President at Goldman Sachs, showcasing a robust career in leading technical teams and innovative software solutions.
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Mark Brazeal
Chief Legal Officer
Mark Brazeal is Chief Legal Officer at Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for the legal, governance compliance and public affairs functions across the company. Prior to his current role, he served as the Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President, IP Licensing for SanDisk Corporation, until it was acquired by Western Digital Corporation in 2016. Before joining SanDisk, Mr. Brazeal spent 15 years at Broadcom Corporation in various positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as the Senior Vice President and Senior Deputy General Counsel in charge of all commercial, operational, IP licensing and litigation matters for the company. Prior to that, Mr. Brazeal was an attorney in the transactional and IP groups at the law firms of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, CA, Yuasa & Hara in Tokyo, Japan and Howrey & Simon in Washington, D.C. He earned a J.D. and a B.A. in American Government from the University of Virginia.
Charlie Kawwas
President, Semiconductor Solutions Group
Charlie Kawwas is Chief Operating Officer at Broadcom, overseeing the company’s global operations, as well as sales for the Semiconductor and Brocade Storage Networking businesses and corporate marketing for all of Broadcom. Prior to this role, Dr. Kawwas served as Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer at Broadcom from June 2015 to December 2020. Dr. Kawwas joined the company through the LSI acquisition where he was head of worldwide sales. Previous positions at LSI include Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the networking division and Vice President of Marketing for the networking and storage products group. Before joining LSI, Dr. Kawwas was the leader of Product Line Management for the Optical Ethernet and Multi-service Edge portfolio at Nortel. Dr. Kawwas received a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Kawwas was awarded Alumnus of the Year for 2020 by Concordia University.
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Mark Gonikberg
SVP & GM, Wireless Communications & Connectivity Division
Mark Gonikberg is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless Communications and Connectivity Division. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and navigation products. Prior to his current role, he held engineering management positions and led the development of advanced wireless communications chips. Mr. Gonikberg joined Broadcom in 1999 through the acquisition of Altocom Inc. where he was Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering. Earlier in his R&D career, he worked on several communication technologies at Telebit and General Magic. He is the named inventor on 58 issued U.S. patents. Mr. Gonikberg earned an Electrical Engineering degree from Leningrad Electrotechnical Communications Institute.
Frank Ostojic
SVP & General Manager
Frank Ostojic is an experienced executive with a strong background in engineering and management within the technology sector. Currently serving as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Broadcom Limited, Frank has held various leadership roles, including Senior Vice President and General Manager at Avago Technologies, where responsibilities expanded to Vice President and General Manager and Senior Director of Marketing. Previous experience includes serving as Director of R&D at Agilent Technologies and as an Engineer at HP. Frank Ostojic holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from Colorado State University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Brigham Young University.
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Clayton Donley
VP & GM, Identity Management Security Division
Clayton Donley is Vice President and General Manager of the Identity Management Security Division at Broadcom (IMS). In this role, he is responsible for the company’s identity and access software portfolio, which protects and manages access to some of the world’s most mission-critical applications. Mr. Donley joined the company via the CA Technologies acquisition where he was Senior Vice President Engineering for the security business unit. Prior to this role, he spent 12 years leading product management and engineering organizations as Vice President of Product Development at Oracle, which he joined through the acquisition of OctetString, a security software company that he founded in 2001. He has previously held various IT, product, and consulting roles in both North America and China with Motorola, IBM and other organizations. Mr. Donley holds a B.A. from DePaul University in Chicago and is the listed inventor for multiple patents in the Identity Management space.
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Vijay Janapaty
VP & GM, Physical Layer Products
Vijay Janapaty is Vice President and General Manager of the Physical Layer Products Division at Broadcom, responsible for the company’s physical interconnect and automotive Ethernet products. Mr. Janapaty joined the company through the LSI acquisition, where he was Vice President of Marketing for ASIC Products. Prior to that, Mr. Janapaty held positions in product management, mergers and acquisitions, and engineering at LSI. Mr. Janapaty received a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Hassan Hussain
VP & GM, Motion Control Products Division
Hassan Hussain is Vice President and General Manager of the Motion Control Products Division. He has held this position since 2006. He oversees the development, production, marketing and sales of motion control products used in factory, industrial and office automation. Prior to his current role, Mr. Hussain held a variety of management positions within the Optoelectronics and Disk Drive divisions at H-P and Agilent. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Hussain was a Process Engineer at Motorola Semiconductor.
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Matt Cooke
VP & GM, Payment Security Division
Matt Cooke is Vice President and General Manager of the Payment Security Division at Broadcom. In this role, he is responsible for the development and delivery of financial technology (FinTech) solutions that prevent payment fraud for many of the world’s largest companies. Mr. Cooke joined the company through the CA Technologies acquisition, where he was most recently SVP of Acquisition Integration responsible for the performance of the company’s M&A portfolio. He has held various management roles across Sales, Services, Product and M&A. Before joining CA Technologies, Mr. Cooke was Co-Founder of Mailgun and Founder & CEO of Profista. Mr. Cooke holds a B.A. in Economics from Boston College and an M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship from Babson College.
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Adam Bromwich
VP & GM, Symantec Endpoint Security
Adam Bromwich is Vice President and General Manager of the Symantec Endpoint Security (SES) Division, a leading provider of advanced endpoint protection, breach prevention and threat intelligence. Mr. Bromwich is responsible for product strategy and delivery, for Symantec’s cyber defense platform, and for Symantec’s Security Technology and Response (STAR) research team. Mr. Bromwich has more than 17 years of experience in the security space, delivering multiple innovative security technologies that have significantly transformed the industry, and driving excellence in engineering and quality on a global scale to hundreds of millions of users. Mr. Bromwich spearheaded Symantec’s leadership in threat analytics and machine learning which powers Symantec’s advanced threat intelligence and protection offerings. Mr. Bromwich joined the company through the Symantec Enterprise Security business acquisition where he was most recently Senior Vice President, Cyber Security Services. Prior to this role, he held various leadership positions in engineering, research and product management across Symantec’s enterprise and consumer businesses. Mr. Bromwich holds a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from Yale University and multiple patents in data center and endpoint security.
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PwC
Business Today
Joshua Burgin serves as the Vice President of Product, Engineering & Strategy for VMware's Product & Cloud Services business - covering a diverse range of offerings such as packaged software, SaaS services hosted on the cloud and solutions catering to edge computing. In this role, he owns customer experience and ensures consistency in software engineering across domains like onboarding, lifecycle management, devops, and security. Prior to this, he held executive leadership positions Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Zynga, as well as served as a product leader at several early-stage startups. He started his career in 1997 as one of first 100 pioneering employees at Amazon.com. Joshua's expertise in accelerating innovation, organizational development, devops, and cloud computing makes him a highly sought-after keynote speaker at prominent global conferences and events.
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Jeff Hoogenboom
VP & GM, Emulex Connectivity Division
Jeff Hoogenboom is Vice President and General Manager of the Emulex Connectivity Division at Broadcom. Mr. Hoogenboom joined the company through the Emulex acquisition. In his current role, he is responsible for developing and delivering Fibre Channel and Ethernet focused silicon, software and adapters for data center connectivity and storage solutions to cloud service providers, enterprise customers and embedded OEM systems. Prior to his current role, he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Emulex. His prior positions include Vice President of Sales at Cadence Design, Vice President Worldwide Sales at LSI, and multiple executive sales and marketing vice president positions at Intel. Mr. Hoogenboom received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
Yuan Xing Lee
VP, Central Engineering
Yuan Xing Lee is Vice President of Central Engineering. In this role, he is responsible for Broadcom’s core technology libraries and foundation IPs. Prior his current role, he was Vice President of Engineering for the Data Controller Division where he was responsible for the engineering developments for the division from architecture to digital and analog design, technology platform, and SoC (system-on-chip). He also held senior technical and management positions at LSI, Hitachi GST, IBM and Singapore’s Data Storage Institute. Dr. Lee earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Xi'dian University, China.
Brian Clayton
Managing Director
Brian Clayton is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in the technology industry, currently serving as Managing Director at Broadcom since September 2018, overseeing the complete software portfolio that provides critical solutions for major global enterprises. Prior to Broadcom, Brian held leadership positions at CA Technologies from September 2009 to September 2018, including Regional Alliance Director and Senior Solution Strategist. Brian's career also includes roles at BMC and Network Associates, where responsibilities ranged from Regional Territory Manager to Account Manager. Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services from Texas State University.
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