Astera Labs, Inc. (ALAB)

Astera Labs is still run by the two people who started it. Jitendra Mohan, a co-founder, has been chief executive and a director since November 2017, and was president from November 2017 to November 2023; before that he was a product line manager at Texas Instruments from March 2012 to October 2017, and spent the years from June 1996 to March 2012 at National Semiconductor, most recently as a design director. Sanjay Gajendra, the other co-founder, has been chief operating officer and a director since the same month, took the title of president in November 2023, and held the finance job himself, as chief financial officer and treasurer, from November 2017 to July 2020. He came from the same two employers: Texas Instruments from July 2014 to October 2017, and National Semiconductor from May 2000 to December 2011. 12

The finance seat changed hands after the year this report covers. Desmond Lynch has been chief financial officer since March 2026; he came from Rambus, a chip and licensing company, where he was chief financial officer from August 2022 until February 2026. Michael Truett Tate is the name on the insider record before him, first filing as chief financial officer in 2024 and last filing in 2026. Philip Mazzara has been general counsel and secretary since September 2022, and was vice president of legal before that. Germaine Cota files as chief accounting officer and vice president of finance, first appearing on the record in 2026. PricewaterhouseCoopers has audited the books since 2021. 3456

Twelve people appear on the insider record, and all twelve have filed in the last fifteen months. Two of the outside directors have run chip companies themselves. Craig Barratt joined the board in March 2025; he was president and chief executive of Atheros Communications, a fabless chip company, meaning one that designs chips and hires others to make them, from 2003 until Qualcomm bought it in 2011, and the proxy statement says he joined Intel's board in November 2025 and is to become its chairman in May 2026. Michael Hurlston has been a director since November 2022 and is president and chief executive of Lumentum, an optical products company, a post he took in February 2025 after running Synaptics from August 2019 to February 2025. 789106

At the end of 2025 the company had 756 full-time employees, 527 of them in North America, 208 in Asia and 21 in Europe, none of them represented by a labor union. Average headcount rose 75% over the year. The engineering is spread wide, with research and development offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, India, Israel, Singapore and Vietnam. The headquarters is in San Jose, California: about 154,231 square feet of offices, laboratories and test space on a lease that runs to November 2032, with further sites in Irvine and Texas, and offices in China and Taiwan for local customer support and sales. 111213141516