Cirrus Logic, Inc. (CRUS)

John M. Forsyth has been president and chief executive since January 2021. He came in with the purchase of Wolfson Microelectronics plc in 2014, where he had been vice president of audio products, and inside Cirrus Logic he was vice president of product marketing from August 2014, chief strategy officer from June 2018 and president from January 2020. The company keeps the two top jobs apart: the chair of the board is David Tupman. On the insider record this site holds, Forsyth has been filing since 2019, and the chief executive before him, Jason P. Rhode, filed last in 2020. 1234

Most of the rest of the leadership grew up inside the company. Jeffrey W. Baumgartner, who runs research and development, joined in 1998 as a design engineer. Carl J. Alberty, who runs mixed-signal products, joined in 1999 in an engineering role supporting audio products. Gregory Scott Thomas, the general counsel, joined in December 2000. Justin Dougherty, who runs global operations, joined in 2013. Andrew Brannan, who runs worldwide sales, came in with Wolfson in 2014, where he had been chief commercial officer. Denise Grodé joined as chief human resources officer in March 2022 from Centene Corporation. All six were made executive vice presidents in December 2024. The finance chief is the newcomer: Jeff Woolard joined in February 2025, after running finance at Velocity Global, at Solidigm and, before those, in two roles at Intel Corporation. 56782910

Six of the seven directors put up for election are independent. The chair, David J. Tupman, rose from manager to vice president of hardware engineering at Apple Inc. between 2001 and 2011, leading the hardware and technology teams for several mobile devices. Alexander M. Davern, who chairs the audit committee, worked at National Instruments Corporation in Austin from 1994 to 2020 and was at various times its finance chief, operating chief and chief executive. William D. Mosley has been chief executive of Seagate Technology Holdings plc since October 2017. Catherine P. Lego founded Lego Ventures LLC and sat on the board of Lam Research Corporation. The other two are Raghib Hussain and Duy-Loan Le. On the record this site holds the directors' first insider filings run from 2015 to 2024. 11121314154

At the end of fiscal year 2026 Cirrus Logic counted 1,668 employees, 99 percent of them full time, against 1,660 a year earlier. Seven in ten, 71 percent, work in research and product development, 24 percent in sales, marketing and administration and 5 percent in work tied to manufacturing. Just under two thirds, 64 percent, are in the United States and 36 percent offshore; 14 percent are foreign nationals. Voluntary turnover in fiscal year 2026 was 7 percent. The company has never had a work stoppage, and most employees are not covered by collective bargaining agreements. 161718