STEVEN J. SHARP - Corporate Board Profile

POWER INTEGRATIONS INC

Filing Date	Source Excerpt
2017-03-23	Steven J. Sharp, age 75, has served as a director of Power Integrations since 1988. The following table provides membership information and meeting information for 2016 for each of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees: Steven J. Sharp Compensation X. Director Compensation for Fiscal Year 2016: Steven J. Sharp Fees Earned or Paid in Cash $36,000 Restricted Stock Unit Awards $99,980 Total $135,980.
2018-04-27	Steven J. Sharp, age 76, has served as a director of Power Integrations since 1988, and served as non-executive chairman of the board from May 2006 to April 2011. Mr. Sharp served as Power Integrations’ interim chief executive officer during its first year in 1988. A 55-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, Mr. Sharp has served as a member of the public company boards of TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor components, Pixelworks Inc., a fabless semiconductor company supplying graphics integrated circuits used in projectors, monitors and TVs, and Megatest, a company that designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced automatic test equipment for the integrated circuit industry. Mr. Sharp has previously served on all the committees of each board of directors on which he has served. Mr. Sharp was president and chief executive officer of TriQuint Semiconductor from September 1991 until July 2002. Mr. Sharp retired as Chairman of the Board in January of 2015. Prior to TriQuint, Mr. Sharp was associated with various venture capital and start-up semiconductor firms, helping start Crystal Semiconductor (now Cirrus Logic, Inc.), Gazelle Microcircuits, Inc. (now TriQuint), Megatest Corporation (now Teradyne, Inc.) and Volterra Semiconductor Corporation. In 1989, he also founded Silicon Architects, Inc. (since acquired by Synopsys, Inc.). Mr. Sharp’s extensive engineering and management experience in the analog semiconductor field also includes 23 years with Texas Instruments and Philips in executive positions. Mr. Sharp also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, having been involved in approximately 15 transactions, as well as public and private financings. Mr. Sharp is very active in research to find root causes of mental illnesses at Oregon Health Science University. Mr. Sharp has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, an M.S.E.S from the California Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He has also attended director training at Harvard University. 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... Steven J. Sharp $36,000 $99,181 $135,181.
2019-03-28	Steven J. Sharp, age 77, has served as a director of Power Integrations since 1988, and served as non-executive chairman of the board from May 2006 to April 2011. ... Mr. Sharp has previously served on all the committees of each board of directors on which he has served. ... 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: ... Steven J. Sharp: $135,110.
2020-03-20	Steven J. Sharp, age 78, has served as a director of Power Integrations since 1988, and served as non-executive chairman of the board from May 2006 to April 2011. ... Mr. Sharp has previously served on all the committees of each board of directors on which he has served. ... Director Compensation for Fiscal Year 2019 ... Steven J. Sharp ... $159,492
2021-03-29	Steven J. Sharp, age 79, has served as a director of Power Integrations since 1988, and served as non-executive chairman of the board from May 2006 to April 2011. ... 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: ... Steven J. Sharp ... Fees Earned or Paid in Cash $45,000 ... Restricted Stock Unit Awards $118,995 ... Total $163,995.