MaxLinear, Inc. (MXL)

Kishore Seendripu co-founded MaxLinear and has been its chairman, president and chief executive since it began in September 2003. Before that he designed radio chips: he was director of RF and mixed-signal IC design at Silicon Wave and earlier on the technical staff of Broadcom, and he holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Steven Litchfield has been chief financial officer and chief corporate strategy officer since July 2018; before that he was chief strategy officer of Microsemi from 2009 until Microchip Technology bought it in May 2018. Connie Kwong has been corporate controller and principal accounting officer since February 2016. 12345

Thomas Pardun, a director since July 2009 and once non-executive chairman of Western Digital, is the lead director who leads the board alongside Seendripu, whose chairmanship the bylaws tie to the chief executive's job. Albert Moyer, a director since October 2009, before the initial public offering, is due to retire at the 2026 annual meeting. Other directors come from the chip and optical industries: Daniel Artusi, since November 2018, ran Intel's connected home division and Lantiq; Gregory Dougherty, since March 2020, was chief executive of Oclaro; and Kris Sennesael, who joined in February 2026, is chief financial officer of Western Digital and was finance chief of Skyworks. 6789101112131415

At the end of 2025 MaxLinear had 1,115 full-time employees in 16 countries: 786 in research and development, 200 in sales and marketing, 27 in operations and 102 in administration. Just over half, 53%, were in Asia, 25% in the Americas, 12% in Europe and 10% in the Middle East, and contractors made up a further 15% of the workforce. Its design teams sit in Carlsbad, Irvine and San Jose in California, Singapore, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Taipei, Hsinchu, India, Germany, Israel and Spain. Voluntary turnover was 14% in 2025, and a workforce reduction cost 6.9 million dollars in severance and related costs that year. 1617181920