
	Mr. Brad W. Buss has been an Executive Vice President of Finance &amp; Administration and Chief Financial Officer at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation since August 15, 2005 and serves as its Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Buss has also been the Secretary at Ramtron International Corp. since November 20, 2012. He served as Corporate Secretary at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation since August 2005. Prior to Cypress, he served as a Vice President of Finance at Altera Corp. with responsibility for global business unit finance, channel finance, and financial planning and analysis. Mr. Buss has an extensive background in finance and operations and served as a senior worldwide finance executive for Altera Corporation. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, divesture transactions as well as various capital markets transactions for both public and private companies. He began his finance career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen in Toronto and Los Angeles. He spent seven years as a finance executive with Wyle Electronics and served as the Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Atlas Services Division. He also served as a Senior Finance Manager of Cisco Systems in its Worldwide Sales Finance organization, where he focused on sales commitment tracking, reporting and compliance for service providers and enterprise customers. He served as the Chief Financial Officer, secretary and Senior Vice President of Finance of Zaffire, Inc. He serves as a Director of AgigA Tech, Inc. He serves as a Director of Silicon Light Machines. He has been a Member of Advisory board of Enmetric Systems, Inc. since October 15, 2013. He has been a Director at Ramtron International Corp. since October 12, 2012; CafePress Inc. since October 2007 and Tesla Motors, Inc. since November 2009. He served as an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University School of Business. Mr. Buss received his Bachelor or Arts in Economics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada and received an honors business administration degree, majoring in finance and accounting from the University of Windsor.
