Dr. Rhines has served as Chair of the Board and Lead Independent Director at the Company since November 2023 and has served on our Board of Directors since January 2015. From 1995 until 2015, he served as a director of TriQuint, one of Qorvo s predecessor entities. Dr. Rhines serves as a director of Cornami, Inc., a semiconductor processor company focused on fully homomorphic encryption, and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from March 2020 through May 2025. Dr. Rhines has served as chairman of the board of Caspia, an electronic design automation software company engaged in Cybersecurity and as a director of Pallidus Inc., a company developing Silicon Carbide. Since August 2025, he has served as Chief Executive Officer and director of Silvaco Group, Inc., a public company engaged in electronic design automation. Since October 2019, he has served as Chief Executive Officer of Rhines Consultants, a consulting firm in the semiconductor, integrated circuit design and manufacturing fields. Dr. Rhines was also CEO Emeritus of Mentor (a Siemens Business) an electronic design automation company, until October 2020, having previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mentor from its acquisition by Siemens Industry, Inc. in March 2017 until October 2018. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Mentor Graphics Corporation from 1993 and Chairman of its board of directors from 2000 until the acquisition of Mentor Graphics by Siemens in 2017. Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, he spent 21 years at Texas Instruments, a semiconductor manufacturer, with his most recent position as the Executive Vice President of its Semiconductor Group with responsibility for its worldwide semiconductor business. He also served as a director of Cirrus Logic, Inc., a semiconductor company, from 1995 to 2009, as a director of Electronic System Design Alliance, a trade association for electronic design companies, from 1994 to 2019, and as a director of Semiconductor Research Corporation, a technology research consortium from 2002 until 2020. Dr. Rhines also served as a director of PTK Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company. He also serves as an advisor to Chip Agents, an AI driven design automation company. Key Skills and Qualifications: Dr. Rhines brings to the Board and its committees over 50 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including substantial operating experience and management expertise as a CEO of a publicly traded technology company. He also brings strong leadership skills, a significant understanding of international markets and substantial experience in strategic planning and business development and mergers and acquisitions.