Corporate Board Profile
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| 2017-03-23 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 60, has served as a director of Power Integrations since February 2004. The following table provides membership information and meeting information for 2016 for each of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees: Balakrishnan S. Iyer Audit X Compensation † Nominating and Governance X. Director Compensation for Fiscal Year 2016: Balakrishnan S. Iyer Fees Earned or Paid in Cash $59,200 Restricted Stock Unit Awards $99,980 Total $159,180. |
| 2018-04-27 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 61, has served as a director of Power Integrations since February 2004. Mr. Iyer has served on public company boards since 2001, and currently serves on the boards of: IHS Markit, a leading source of information, insight and analytics in critical areas that shape today’s business landscape; and Skyworks Solutions, Inc., an innovator in high performance analog semiconductors. Mr. Iyer also served on the board of directors of QLogic Corporation, until its acquisition by Cavium in August 2016; IHS Inc., until its merger with Markit in July 2016; Life Technologies Corporation, an S&P 500 company in the life science technology industry prior to its acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. in 2014; Overture Systems prior to the sale of the company to Yahoo; and Conexant Systems, Inc., a designer, developer and seller of semiconductor systems solutions for communications applications, prior to the company’s acquisition by Golden Gate Capital. Mr. Iyer retired from Conexant Systems in 2003 after serving for five years as senior vice president and chief financial officer. In that role, Mr. Iyer was responsible for all the financial functions for the company including operational finance, controllership, treasury, tax and investor relations as well as strategy and business development. He raised $1 billion for the company and completed more than a dozen acquisitions valued at over $2 billion. He also led the execution of the strategic restructuring of the company from an integrated semiconductor company with a full range of manufacturing operations to a family of pure-play fabless semiconductor companies. Earlier in his career, Mr. Iyer worked in Silicon Valley for 17 years in the semiconductor industry in finance roles at Advanced Micro Devices, Cypress Semiconductor and VLSI Technology (where he was senior vice president and chief financial officer), and in engineering roles at National Semiconductor Corporation. Mr. Iyer has significant experience in audit committee matters, as well as corporate governance, financing and acquisition matters. At IHS, he served as chairman of the audit committee since he joined its board of directors in 2003 until its merger with Markit in July 2016, helping oversee the company’s preparation to become a public company, including the recruiting of key finance team members, preparation of the registration statement and implementation of SOX 404. Mr. Iyer is also chairman of the governance and nominating committee at Skyworks Solutions, and was previously chairman of the audit committee at QLogic and chairman of the audit and nominating committees at Life Technologies as well as the governance and nominating committee at Conexant Systems. He serves on the board of directors of the Forum for Corporate Directors, an organization focused on corporate governance and also on the advisory board of the California State University Fullerton Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance. As a board member, Mr. Iyer has overseen more than 50 acquisitions and divestitures valued at over $25 billion, and more than $5 billion in equity and debt financing. Mr. Iyer has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. The following table shows for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, certain information with respect to the compensation of all non-employee directors of Power Integrations: Director Compensation for Fiscal Year 2017... Balakrishnan S. Iyer $59,200 $99,181 $158,381. |
| 2019-03-28 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 62, has served as a director of Power Integrations since February 2004. ... As of the date of this proxy statement, four directors compose the Audit Committee: Messrs. Bickell and Iyer and Drs. Arienzo and George. ... As of the date of this proxy statement, five directors compose the Compensation Committee: Messrs. Bickell and Kvamme and Drs. Arienzo, George and Sayiner. ... The following table shows for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, certain information with respect to the compensation of all non-employee directors of Power Integrations: ... Balakrishnan S. Iyer: $158,310. |
| 2020-03-20 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 63, has served as a director of Power Integrations since February 2004. ... As of the date of this proxy statement, three directors compose the Audit Committee: Mr. Iyer and Drs. Arienzo and George. ... Director Compensation for Fiscal Year 2019 ... Balakrishnan S. Iyer ... $183,592 |
| 2021-03-29 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 64, has served as a director of Power Integrations since February 2004. ... The following table shows for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, certain information with respect to the compensation of all non-employee directors of Power Integrations: ... Balakrishnan S. Iyer ... Fees Earned or Paid in Cash $70,000 ... Restricted Stock Unit Awards $118,995 ... Total $188,995 ... Committee Chair. |
| 2022-03-29 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 65, has served as a director of Power Integrations since February 2004. ... The following table shows for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, certain information with respect to the compensation of all non-employee directors of Power Integrations: ... Balakrishnan S. Iyer $70,000 Paid in Cash, $119,931 Restricted Stock Unit Awards, Total $189,931. |
| 2023-03-31 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 66, has served as a director of Power Integrations since February 2004. ... The following table shows for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 certain information with respect to the compensation of all non-employee directors of Power Integrations: ... Balakrishnan S. Iyer: Fees Earned or Paid in Cash $70,000, Restricted Stock Unit Awards $119,975, Total $189,975. |
| 2024-03-29 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 67, has served as a director of Power Integrations since February 2004 and as Lead Independent Director of the Board since May 2023. ... The following table shows for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 certain information with respect to the compensation of all non-employee directors of Power Integrations: Balakrishnan S. Iyer: Fees Earned or Paid in Cash $85,000, Restricted Stock Unit Awards $118,992, Total $203,992. |
| 2025-03-31 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 68, has served as a director of Power Integrations since February 2004 and as Lead Independent Director of the Board since May 2023. ... The following table shows for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 certain information with respect to the compensation of all non-employee directors of Power Integrations: ... Balakrishnan S. Iyer Fees Earned or Paid in Cash $100,000, Restricted Stock Unit Awards $119,936, Total $219,936. |
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| 2014-03-26 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 57, has been a director since June 2002. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Conexant Systems, Inc. from October 1998 to June 2003. Prior to joining Conexant, Mr. Iyer served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of VLSI Technology Inc. Prior to that, he was Corporate Controller for Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Director of Finance for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Mr. Iyer serves on the Board of Directors of Power Integrations, Inc., QLogic Corporation, and IHS Inc. (each a publicly traded company). |
| 2015-04-08 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 58, has been a director since June 2002. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Conexant Systems, Inc., from October 1998 to June 2003. Prior to joining Conexant, Mr. Iyer served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of VLSI Technology Inc. Prior to that, he was Corporate Controller for Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Director of Finance for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Mr. Iyer serves on the Boards of Directors of Power Integrations, Inc., QLogic Corporation, and IHS Inc. (each a publicly traded company). He served as a director of Conexant from February 2002 until April 2011, and as a director of Life Technologies Corp. from July 2001 until February 2014, when it was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. We believe that Mr. Iyer is qualified to serve as a director because his experience as an executive officer of companies in the technology industry provides him with leadership, strategic, and financial experience. Through his experiences as a director at the public companies listed above (including as a member of certain audit, governance, and compensation committees) he provides the Board of Directors with significant financial expertise as a designated "audit committee financial expert" for Skyworks' Audit Committee, bringing specific application to our industry, as well as a broad understanding of corporate governance topics. |
| 2016-03-31 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 59, has been a director since June 2002. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Conexant Systems, Inc., from October 1998 to June 2003. |
| 2017-04-03 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 60, has been a director since June 2002. |
| 2018-04-02 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 61, has been a director since June 2002. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Conexant Systems, Inc., from October 1998 to June 2003. Prior to joining Conexant, Mr. Iyer served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of VLSI Technology Inc. Prior to that, he was Corporate Controller for Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Director of Finance for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Mr. Iyer serves on the boards of directors of Power Integrations, Inc. (a publicly traded provider of semiconductor technologies for high-voltage power conversion), and IHS Markit Ltd. (a publicly traded company that delivers information, analytics and expertise for industries and markets worldwide). He served as a director of Conexant from February 2002 until April 2011, as a director of Life Technologies Corp. from July 2001 until February 2014, when it was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., as a director of IHS Inc. from December 2003 until July 2016, when it completed a merger with Markit Ltd., and as a director of QLogic Corporation from June 2003 until August 2016, when it was acquired by Cavium, Inc. |
| 2019-03-29 | Balakrishnan S. Iyer, age 62, has been a director since June 2002. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Conexant Systems, Inc., from October 1998 to June 2003. Prior to joining Conexant, Mr. Iyer served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of VLSI Technology Inc. Prior to that, he was Corporate Controller for Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Director of Finance for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Mr. Iyer serves on the boards of directors of Power Integrations, Inc. (a publicly traded provider of semiconductor technologies for high-voltage power conversion), IHS Markit Ltd. (a publicly traded company that delivers information, analytics and expertise for industries and markets worldwide), and Churchill Capital Corp. (a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company). |
Data sourced from SEC filings. Last updated: 2025-10-27