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QLogic Announces Appointment of Bill Zeitler and Scott Merce

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:53 am
by Apoptosis
QLogic Announces Appointment of Bill Zeitler and Scott Mercer
to Board of Directors
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Sept. 13, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp.
(Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network
infrastructure solutions, today announced that Bill Zeitler and Scott
Mercer have been appointed to its board of directors, increasing the
number of directors to eight.

Zeitler spent over 35 years at IBM in various roles, including his last
assignment as senior vice president and group executive, Servers,
Storage and Semiconductor Groups, prior to his retirement in 2008. He
currently serves on the board of directors of Vette Corporation and is
a consultant for several technology companies.

Mercer currently serves as chairman and chief executive officer of
Conexant Systems, Inc., and also serves on the board of directors of
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V. and Polycom, Inc.
His prior experience includes serving as a senior executive officer at
Western Digital Corporation (most recently as senior vice president and
chief financial officer and adviser to the chief executive officer) and
as an executive at Dell Computer Corporation. Mercer has over 27 years
of management experience at technology companies.

"I am very pleased to welcome Bill and Scott to the QLogic Board of
Directors," said H.K. Desai, chairman and chief executive officer of
QLogic. "Both Bill and Scott have extensive technology backgrounds and
significant leadership experience having been senior executives of very
large technology companies. I am confident that they will be valuable
contributors to QLogic."

About QLogic

QLogic (Nasdaq:QLGC) is a global leader and technology innovator in
high performance networking, including adapters, switches and ASICs.
Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic products for
their data, storage and server networking solutions. QLogic is a NASDAQ
Global Select company and is included in the S&P 500. For more
information, visit www.qlogic.com.