
	Robert Andersen became chief financial officer (CFO) of Tessera Technologies, Inc. in January of 2014. Prior to joining Tessera, Andersen served from June 2011 to July 2013 as the CFO and executive vice president of G2 Holdings Corp. d/b/a Components Direct, a privately held provider of cloud-based product life cycle solutions, which was acquired by Avnet, Inc. in April 2013. From September 2008 to June 2011, Andersen served first as vice president of finance and then as CFO at Phoenix Technologies Ltd., a publicly traded developer of core system software and productivity solutions for personal computers that was acquired by an affiliate of Marlin Equity Partners in November 2010. Prior to his time at Phoenix Technologies, Andersen served in various senior financial roles at Wind River Systems, Inc., a publicly traded embedded systems software company, and NextOffice, Inc., a privately held technology company. Andersen began his finance career at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he served in various controller, treasury and technology finance management roles.
	
	Andersen holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Davis, and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.
