QuickLogic Corporation (QUIK)

Brian C. Faith joined QuickLogic in June 1996 and has been president and chief executive since June 2016, after running worldwide marketing and then worldwide sales and marketing from 2008. He studied computer engineering at Santa Clara University and has taught courses on programmable logic there as an adjunct lecturer. He took over from Andrew J. Pease, who joined the company in November 2006, was president and chief executive from January 2011 until he retired in June 2016, and has sat on the board since April 2011, where he chairs the nominating and corporate governance committee. 1234

Five other executive officers are named, and most of them have been there for decades. Elias Nader has been chief financial officer since February 2022, after the same job at Pixelworks from 2019 to 2022 and, before that, Sigma Designs, where he was also interim chief executive. Timothy Saxe joined in May 2001 and has been chief technology officer since November 2008, adding engineering in August 2016; he ran GateField as its chief executive until Actel bought that company in November 2000. Rajiv Jain joined in August 1992 and has run worldwide operations since April 2014, and Owen Bateman joined in February 1997 and has run worldwide sales since April 2022. Andrew Jaros is the new arrival, hired in December 2024 to sell the licensed designs, after running worldwide sales for FlexLogix from 2016 to 2024. On the record this site holds, Saxe has filed insider reports since 2006, the first year the SEC's data sets reach, and Faith since 2011. 56789101112

The board is chaired by Michael R. Farese, a director since April 2008 and chairman since December 6, 2019, who was chief technology officer of the chip maker Entropic Communications. Gary H. Tauss has been a director since June 2002. Joyce Kim, on this site's record a filer since 2022, is chief marketing officer of Proofpoint and held the same job at Zscaler and Twilio. Ron Shelton, chief financial officer of the artificial intelligence chip company Syntiant, joined the board and took the audit committee chair on August 7, 2025, after Christine Russell, who had chaired that committee since April 2006, died on July 11, 2025. Andrew J. Pease, the former chief executive, holds the remaining seat. Four of them are independent under the Nasdaq rules: Farese, Kim, Shelton and Tauss. 13141516171819202112

This is a small company by headcount. At the end of fiscal 2025 it had fifty-one employees worldwide, forty-three of them in the United States, and a research and development staff of twenty-four scattered across American states as well as Canada and Taiwan. The staff is unusually settled: about 33% have been there more than 10 years and about 24% more than 20 years, average tenure is 9.6 years, and turnover was 21% for the year, or 16% leaving aside the SensiML disposal. 222324