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Mark W. Adams

Member: Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee
Director since 2024

Mr. Adams has served as Chief Executive Officer of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., a specialty memory, storage, and hybrid solutions company, since August 31, 2020. Mr. Adams served as Chief Executive Officer of Lumileds, Inc., a lighting solutions company, from February 2017 until March 2019. Previously, Mr. Adams served as President of Micron Technology, Inc., a semiconductor company (“Micron”), from February 2012 to February 2016. From 2006 to February 2012, Mr. Adams served in a number of positions at Micron, including as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Vice President of Digital Media. Prior to joining Micron, Mr. Adams served as Chief Operating Officer of Lexar Media, Inc., a memory chip maker, in 2006. Mr. Adams also served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Creative Labs, Inc., a digital entertainment products company (“Creative Labs”), from 2002 to 2006. In addition, he held numerous roles at Creative Labs prior to 2002, including five years as General Manager of Latin America. Prior to joining Creative Labs, Mr. Adams spent five years in major account sales for the enterprise server business of NCR Corporation, an omni-channel technology solutions company. Mr. Adams has served as a member of the board of directors of SMART Global Holdings, Inc. since September 2020, and of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. since 2015. He also previously served as a member of the Company's board of directors from January 2017 to October 2022. Mr. Adams holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University, focused in finance and international marketing.

Expertise: Mr. Adams brings financial, international, business development, technological, and operational expertise to our Board through his service as a senior level executive with several large multinational corporations. In addition, his service on other public company boards brings valuable experience to our Board.

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