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EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
Robert Bruggeworth
Chief Executive Officer
Robert Bruggeworth is president and chief executive officer of Qorvo. Prior to the merger of RFMD and TriQuint to form Qorvo, he served as president and chief executive officer of RFMD from January 2003 to December 2014. He was previously president of RFMD from June 2002 until January 2003. Before this he was also vice president and then president of RFMD's wireless products group. Prior to joining RFMD in September 1999, Mr. Bruggeworth held various leadership positions at AMP Inc., a supplier of electrical and electronic connection devices, from July 1983 to April 1999, serving most recently as vice president of global computer and consumer electronics, based in Hong Kong. He serves on the board of directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and MSA Safety Incorporated, a leader in the development, manufacture and supply of safety products that protect people and facility infrastructures. He is a graduate of Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Bob Bruggeworth
Mark Murphy
Chief Financial Officer
Mark Murphy is Qorvo's chief financial officer (CFO), responsible for finance, investor relations and regulatory reporting. Mr. Murphy joined Qorvo as CFO in June 2016. He was previously executive vice president of Delphi Automotive PLC, a large high-tech company serving automotive markets. Mr. Murphy joined Delphi from Praxair, Inc., a global industrial gas supplier, where he was president of the U.S. Industrial Gases business and, before that, president of Praxair's Surface Technologies and Electronic Materials division. He previously served as senior vice president and CFO of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., corporate controller of Praxair, president of Praxair’s Electronics division and vice president of finance for Praxair Asia based in Shanghai. Mark began his career as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and received an MBA from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Marquette University.

HISTORY

Deep Roots in Core Technologies
For more than 30 years, Qorvo has been all around you. They've been innovating, researching, developing and acquiring cutting-edge technologies that shape the world as you know it.

Regardless of the route to becoming Qorvo, the mission has always remained the same: to drive connectivity, no matter the technology. From the start of RF Micro Devices (RFMD) in 1991, TriQuint in 1985, and dating back to roots in Tektronix, Texas Instruments, Raytheon and Watkins-Johnson, we've helped send rockets to Mars, connected you with your family and friends through cell phones, and brought satellite radio to your car.

BARCELONA, SPAIN – February 27, 2017 – Qorvo(Nasdaq:QRVO), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, today announced the industry’s first 5G RF front end (RFFE) for smartphones, laptops, tablets and other wireless mobile devices. Qorvo’s highly integrated, high performance QM19000 RFFE delivers high linearity, ultra-low latency, and extremely high throughput to meet or exceed the developing requirements of upcoming 5G applications.

Qorvo is paving a path to 5G by helping define 5G standards as a delegate to 3GPP and through close collaboration with the leading wireless infrastructure manufacturers, network operators, chipset providers and smartphone manufacturers. Qorvo has helped conduct dozens of 5G field trials and is uniquely positioned to accelerate the transition to 5G with a broad portfolio of innovative RF products covering frequencies ranging from 600 MHz to 80 GHz.
Strategy Analytics forecasts that 5G networks will be operational by 2020 and that by 2022 approximately 25% of new subscriptions in North America will feature 5G.
Eric Creviston, president of Qorvo’s Mobile Products group, said, “Qorvo is leveraging our industry-leading product and technology portfolio for ultra-high, high, mid, and low cellular frequency bands. We are building more functionality into our RF solutions by combining our BAW, TC-SAW and SAW filters, our high-throw count switches and our multimode, multi-band power amplifiers. We are proud to introduce the industry’s first 5G-capable RF front end, developed in close collaboration with a leading global chipset provider, and we are enthusiastic about the broadening set of opportunities for Qorvo in ultra-high speed 4G LTE, LTE-A and 5G connectivity.”

Qorvo is at the forefront of Solving RF Complexity and is showcasing its industry-leading portfolio of advanced RF Front End solutions at Mobile World Congress (MWC 2017), from February 27 through March 2 in Hall 2, Stand 2i25.

Qorvo (NASDAQ:QRVO) makes a better world possible by providing innovative RF solutions at the center of connectivity. They combine product and technology leadership, systems-level expertise and global manufacturing scale to quickly solve their customers' most complex technical challenges. Qorvo serves diverse high-growth segments of large global markets, including advanced wireless devices, wired and wireless networks and defense radar and communications. They also leverage their unique competitive strengths to advance 5G networks, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and other emerging applications that expand the global framework interconnecting people, places and things. Visit www.qorvo.com to learn how Qorvo connects the world.