Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.

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Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.

Directors and Executive Officers

The following table sets forth for each director and executive officer of the Company his or her position with the Company as of January 18, 2024:


Name						Title
Liam K. Griffin						Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
Christine King						Lead Independent Director
Alan S. Batey						Director
Kevin L. Beebe						Director
Eric J. Guerin						Director
Suzanne E. McBride						Director
David P. McGlade						Director
Robert A. Schriesheim						Director
Maryann Turcke						Director
Carlos S. Bori						Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Karilee A. Durham						Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Reza Kasnavi						Senior Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing
Kris Sennesael						Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Robert J. Terry						Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Directors


Liam K. Griffin, age 57, is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company. Prior to his appointment as Chairman of the Board in May 2021, Mr. Griffin had served as Chief Executive Officer and a director since May 2016 and as President since May 2014. He served as Executive Vice President and Corporate General Manager from November 2012 to May 2014, Executive Vice President and General Manager, High Performance Analog from May 2011 to November 2012, and Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing from August 2001 to May 2011. Previously, Mr. Griffin was employed by Vectron International, a division of Dover Corp., as Vice President of Worldwide Sales from 1997 to 2001 and as Vice President of North American Sales from 1995 to 1997.						Other Public Company Boards Current •None Past 5 Years •National Instruments Corporation (until 2023) •Vicor Corporation (until 2019)

Qualifications: We believe that Mr. Griffin’s qualifications to serve as a director include his strong relationships with Skyworks’ key customers, investors, employees, and other stakeholders, as well as his deep understanding of the semiconductor industry and its competitive landscape gained through serving in several different executive positions at Skyworks over the past two decades.


Christine King, age 74, has been a director since 2014 and Lead Independent Director since 2019. Ms. King served as Executive Chairman of QLogic Corporation (a publicly traded developer of high performance server and storage networking connectivity products) from August 2015 until August 2016, when it was acquired by Cavium, Inc. Previously, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Standard Microsystems Corporation (a publicly traded developer of silicon-based integrated circuits utilizing analog and mixed-signal technologies) from 2008 until the company’s acquisition in 2012 by Microchip Technology, Inc. Prior to Standard Microsystems, Ms. King was Chief Executive Officer of AMI Semiconductor, Inc., a publicly traded company, from 2001 until it was acquired by ON Semiconductor Corp. in 2008.						Other Public Company Boards Current •None Past 5 Years •Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. (until 2021) •IDACORP, Inc. (until 2021)

Qualifications: We believe that Ms. King’s qualifications to serve as a director include her extensive management and operational experience in the high-tech and semiconductor industries as well as her significant strategic and financial expertise.


Alan S. Batey, age 60, has been a director since 2019. Mr. Batey served as Executive Vice President and President of North America for General Motors Company (a publicly traded automotive manufacturer), as well as the Global Brand Chief for Chevrolet, a division of General Motors Company, from 2014 until 2019. His career spans more than 39 years with General Motors where he held various senior management positions in operations, marketing, and sales around the world.						Other Public Company Boards Current •None Past 5 Years •None

Qualifications: We believe that Mr. Batey’s qualifications to serve as a director include his extensive senior management experience at General Motors, where he developed expertise on a broad set of complex strategic, operational, and technological matters involving the automotive industry, an industry that is expected to be a growth market for the Company.


Kevin L. Beebe, age 64, has been a director since 2004. He has been President and Chief Executive Officer of 2BPartners, LLC (a partnership that provides strategic, financial, and operational advice to private equity investors and management) since 2007. In 2014, Mr. Beebe became a founding partner of Astra Capital Management (a private equity firm based in Washington, D.C.). Previously, beginning in 1998, he was Group President of Operations at ALLTEL Corporation (a telecommunications services company).						Other Public Company Boards Current •SBA Communications Corporation •Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (formerly Frontier Communications Corporation), Lead Independent Director Past 5 Years •Altimar Acquisition Corporation (until 2021) •Altimar Acquisition Corp. II (until 2021) •NII Holdings, Inc. (until 2019)

Qualifications: We believe that Mr. Beebe’s qualifications to serve as a director include his two decades of experience as an operating executive in the wireless telecommunications industry as well as his experience and

relationships gained from advising leading private equity firms that are transacting business in the global capital markets.


Eric J. Guerin, age 52, has been a director since 2022. He currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of RB Global (a publicly traded provider of insights, services and transaction solutions for commercial assets and vehicles), a role he has held since January 2024. Previously, Mr. Guerin served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Veritiv Corporation (a formerly publicly traded provider of packaging and hygiene products), from March 2023 to December 2023 and its Senior Vice President-Finance from January 2023 to March 2023. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CDK Global Inc. (a formerly publicly traded provider of integrated technology solutions to the automotive industry) from 2021 to 2022. From 2016 to 2021, he served as Division Vice President and sector Chief Financial Officer at Corning Glass Technologies, a division of Corning, Inc. Previously, he served in financial leadership roles with Flowserve Corporation, Novartis Corporation, Johnson & Johnson Services Inc., and AstraZeneca PLC.						Other Public Company Boards Current •None Past 5 Years •Natus Medical Incorporated (until 2022)

Qualifications: We believe that Mr. Guerin’s qualifications to serve as a director include his financial and operational expertise, together with his extensive engagements within Asia-Pacific markets.


Suzanne E. McBride, age 55, has been a director since 2022. Ms. McBride serves as Chief Operations Officer for Iridium Communications Inc. (a publicly traded operator of a global satellite communications network). Prior to rejoining Iridium in February 2019, where she had previously served from 2007 to 2016 in various leadership roles, Ms. McBride served from June 2016 to January 2019 as Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer for OneWeb (a privately held company building a space-based global communications network that filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 27, 2020). Earlier in her career, she held a series of increasingly senior positions in technology and operations with Motorola Solutions, Inc. (a publicly traded telecommunications company) and General Dynamics Corporation (a publicly traded aerospace and defense company).						Other Public Company Boards Current •Iridium Communications Inc. Past 5 Years •None

Qualifications: We believe that Ms. McBride’s qualifications to serve as a director include her extensive strategy and operations expertise developed through twenty-five years of experience within the wireless technology industry.


David P. McGlade, age 63, has been a director since 2005. He served as Chairman of the Board of Intelsat S.A. (a formerly publicly traded worldwide provider of satellite communication services) from April 2013 to February 2022. Mr. McGlade served as Executive Chairman of Intelsat from April 2015 to March 2018, prior to which he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. McGlade joined Intelsat in April 2005 and was the Deputy Chairman of Intelsat from August 2008 until April 2013. Previously, Mr. McGlade served as an Executive Director of mmO2 PLC and as the Chief Executive Officer of O2 UK (a subsidiary of mmO2), a position he held from October 2000 until March 2005.						Other Public Company Boards Current •None Past 5 Years •Intelsat S.A. (until 2022)

Qualifications: We believe that Mr. McGlade’s qualifications to serve as a director include his significant operational, strategic, and financial acumen, as well as his knowledge about global capital markets, developed over nearly four decades of experience in the telecommunications business.


Robert A. Schriesheim, age 63, has been a director since 2006. He has been chairman of Truax Partners LLC (a consulting firm) since 2018 and has served as Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business since September 2023. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sears Holdings Corporation (a publicly traded nationwide retailer) from August 2011 to October 2016. From January 2010 to October 2010, Mr. Schriesheim was Chief Financial Officer of Hewitt Associates, Inc. (a global human resources consulting and outsourcing company that was acquired by Aon Corporation). From October 2006 until December 2009, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Lawson Software, Inc. (a publicly traded ERP software provider).						Other Public Company Boards Current •Houlihan Lokey, Inc., Lead Independent Director Past 5 Years •Frontier Communications Corporation (until 2021) •NII Holdings, Inc. (until 2019)

Qualifications: We believe that Mr. Schriesheim’s qualifications to serve as a director include his extensive knowledge of the capital markets and corporate financial capital structures, his expertise evaluating and structuring merger and acquisition transactions within the technology sector, and his experience gained through leading companies through major strategic and financial corporate transformations.


Maryann Turcke, age 58, has been a director since 2023. Most recently, she served as a senior advisor at Brookfield Asset Management from September 2020 to September 2022. Previously, Ms. Turcke served as Chief Operating Officer of the National Football League (NFL) from January 2018 to September 2020 and as a Senior Advisor for the NFL from September 2020 to May 2021. She joined the league as President of NFL Network, Digital Media, NFL Films and IT in April 2017. Prior to the NFL, Ms. Turcke served for more than a decade in various leadership roles within BCE Inc. (a publicly traded communications company formerly known as Bell Canada Enterprises), including serving from April 2015 to February 2017 as president of Bell Media, a division of BCE.						Other Public Company Boards Current •Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. •Royal Bank of Canada Past 5 Years •Northern Star Investment Corp. II (until 2023)

Qualifications: We believe that Ms. Turcke’s qualifications to serve as a director include her significant operational, management and financial experience, including in the telecommunications industry.

In addition to the information presented above regarding each director’s specific experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills that led our Board of Directors to conclude that he or she should serve as a director, we also believe that each of our directors has a reputation for integrity, honesty, and adherence to high ethical standards. They have each demonstrated business acumen, an ability to exercise sound judgment, and a commitment of service to Skyworks. Each of our directors will serve until the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors are elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal.

Executive Officers (other than the Chief Executive Officer)

Carlos S. Bori, age 53, joined the Company in July 2013 and has served as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, since November 2017. He previously served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing, from May 2016 to November 2017 and as Vice President, Marketing, from July 2013 to May 2016. Previously, he spent more than 18 years with Beacon Electronic Associates (a North American independent representative of semiconductor manufacturers), serving as its President from 2004 to 2013.

Karilee A. Durham, age 55, joined the Company in April 2018 and is Senior Vice President, Human Resources. Previously, Ms. Durham served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources and General Affairs for Goodman Global Group, Inc. (an HVAC manufacturing and distribution company) from September 2010 to April 2018. Earlier, she held multiple senior human resources positions with Dell Inc. (a computer retailer) from October 2007 to September 2010, prior to which she held human resources positions at Flextronics International Ltd., Solectron Corporation, and UT-Battelle LLC.

Reza Kasnavi, age 50, joined the Company in 2010 and has served as Senior Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing, since November 2019. He previously served as Vice President and General Manager, Open Market Platforms, from November 2012 to September 2018 and as Vice President, Central Engineering and Quality, from September 2018 to November 2019. Prior to joining Skyworks, Dr. Kasnavi spent 10 years as an investor and executive with Tallwood Venture Capital (an investment firm focused on semiconductor-related technologies and markets), holding various leadership positions at several Tallwood portfolio companies including Sequoia Communications.

Kris Sennesael, age 55, joined the Company in August 2016 and is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Mr. Sennesael served as Chief Financial Officer for Enphase Energy, Inc. (a semiconductor-based renewable energy solutions provider), from September 2012 to August 2016. Earlier, he served as Chief Financial Officer for Standard Microsystems Corporation (a global fabless semiconductor company) from January 2009 to August 2012, prior to which he held financial positions at ON Semiconductor Corp., AMI Semiconductor, Inc., and Alcatel Microelectronics. Mr. Sennesael currently serves on the board of directors of Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd. (a publicly traded manufacturer and provider of solar energy products).

Robert J. Terry, age 57, joined the Company in 2003 and has served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since November 2017. He previously served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from November 2016 to November 2017 and as Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary from June 2011 to November 2016. Before joining Skyworks, he served as General Counsel and Secretary for Day Software, Inc. (an enterprise content management software company), from July 2001 to February 2003. Prior to joining Day Software, Mr. Terry was in private practice, focusing on corporate and securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, and general business litigation.

Audit Committee

We have established an Audit Committee consisting of the following individuals, each of whom qualifies as independent within the meaning of the applicable Listing Rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (the “Nasdaq Rules”) and meets the criteria for independence set forth in Rule 10A-3(b)(1) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”): David P. McGlade (Chairman), Eric Guerin, Christine King, and Robert A. Schriesheim. The Board of Directors has determined that each of Mr. McGlade (Chairman), Mr. Guerin, Ms. King, and Mr. Schriesheim meets the qualifications of an “audit committee financial expert” under SEC Rules and the qualifications of “financial sophistication” under the applicable Nasdaq Rules.

Code of Ethics

We have adopted a written code of business conduct and ethics that applies to our directors, officers, and employees, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions. We make available our code of business conduct and ethics free of charge through our website at www.skyworksinc.com. We intend to disclose any amendments to, or waivers from, our code of business conduct and ethics that are required to be publicly disclosed by posting any such amendment or waivers on our website pursuant to SEC requirements and Nasdaq Rules.

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