Eric K. Brandt has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2025. Mr. Brandt is a seasoned executive and public company director with more than three decades of experience in finance, operations, and strategic transformation across the technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors. He served as Chief Financial Officer of Broadcom Corporation, a global semiconductor company, from 2007 until it was acquired by Avago Technologies Limited in 2016, where he played a pivotal role in scaling it through organic growth and strategic acquisitions into one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies. Prior senior executive roles include serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, where he led product advancement and operational transformation, and as Chief Financial Officer at Allergan, Inc., a multinational healthcare company, where he oversaw global manufacturing and technical operations.
Mr. Brandt has served on the board of directors of Option Care Health, Inc., a health provider of home and alternate site infusion services, since May 2024, Gen Digital Inc. (formerly NortonLifeLock, Inc.), a consumer cybersecurity provider, since February 2020, and Lam Research Corporation, a semiconductor equipment company, since September 2010. He previously served on the boards of The Macerich Company, a real estate investment trust focused on regional malls, from June 2018 to June 2025, Yahoo! Inc., a then-public internet services and digital media company, and DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc., a multinational manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, from November 2004 to May 2024, among others. Mr. Brandt has served on audit, compensation, finance, and cybersecurity committees. His governance experience includes serving as board chair, serving on nominating and corporate governance committees, and chairing special committees addressing cyber breach response, capital allocation, and strategic transformation. As an audit committee financial expert, he has also advised public companies on enterprise risk management, operational restructuring, and go-to-market strategy for cloud and software platforms. Mr. Brandt’s advisory and executive roles at private technology companies have deepened his expertise in IT infrastructure, cloud software, and cybersecurity oversight. His experience spans regulated industries and global markets, with a focus on financial discipline, operational scale, and risk mitigation. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.