The Management Team of GCT Semiconductor

Dr. Kyeongho "K.H." Lee, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Kyeongho "KH" Lee, Ph.D., is the driving force behind the operations and engineering innovations that give GCT its competitive advantage in the wireless industry, including our mobile handset and wireless multimedia SOC. Dr. Lee is responsible for ensuring the strategic direction of the company, business development and the seamless day-to-day operations. He is a co-founder of our company and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors since 2000. Since 2002, Dr. Lee served as a member of the board of directors of AnaPass, Inc., a KOSDAQ-listed fabless semiconductor company that supplies advanced panel controller solutions. From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Lee served as our Chief Technology Officer. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Lee served as a member of the technical staff at Silicon Image Inc., a provider of advanced, interoperable connectivity solutions for high-definition displays. As a member of Silicon Image's engineering division, Dr. Lee created and patented the technology for the PanelLink flat panel display, which was adopted as the worldwide standards known as DVI and HDMI. Dr. Lee holds 17 U.S. patents on RF direct conversion and other RF design techniques, which laid the foundation for the development of our proprietary CMOS RF and single-chip technology. Dr. Lee holds a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, where he was granted the Distinguished Dissertation award for his Ph.D. thesis on CMOS RF technology.

Mr. John Schlaefer, Chief Operating Officer

John Schlaefer leads all sales, marketing, program management and production operations at GCT. Mr. Schlaefer offers a strong background in the wireless semiconductor industry, including extensive experience in marketing, business development and operations. He is responsible for the management of daily operations as well as sales and marketing for the company. Mr. Schaefer has served as our Chief Operating Officer since February 2006. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Schlaefer served as a member of our board of directors. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Schlaefer was the Product Line Director for the RF Products Business Unit at National Semiconductor Corporation (National), a leading semiconductor company focused on analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, where he was responsible for National's industry leading phase-locked loop (PLL) and voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) product lines. During this time, Mr Schlaefer also architected a successful partnership between National and GCT, resulting in the launch of PLL/VCO and PHS radio families by National. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Schlaefer held various regional and worldwide marketing and operational positions at National, including Marketing Director, RF Products Business Unit from 1999-2001, Product Line Marketing Manager, Wireless Product Business Unit from 1996 to 1999 and Marketing Manager, New Business Development, Americas Regional Business Unit, from 1994 to 1996. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Schlaefer was a project engineer and program manager at Watkins-Johnson Company, a microwave component and systems company serving the military marketplace. Mr. Schlaefer holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Gene Kulzer, Chief Financial & Administrative Officer

Gene Kulzer leads the finance and administration functions at GCT. He is responsible for management of the financial, planning, legal, information technology, and other administrative activities for the company. Mr. Kulzer has served as our Chief Financial and Administrative Officer since June 2011. From 2003 to his current position with the company, Mr. Kulzer has served as Interim Corporate Controller for three publicly traded companies. These were Marvell Technology Group Ltd., a semiconductor company providing high-performance application-specific standard products, from February 2008 to October 2008; ABM Industries Incorporated, a publicly traded company specializing in facilities services, from March 2007 to January 2008; and Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc., subsequently a subsidiary of Nestle S.A., a food and nutrition company, from May 2004 to December 2005. Also since 2003, he was a strategic business and financial advisor for several start-up companies, including AWeber Systems, Inc., a private company providing email marketing services, where he has served as Chief Financial Officer from 2003. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Kulzer was a partner for the enterprise risk services practice of Deloitte LLP, an accounting firm. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Kulzer was Director of Finance/Information Systems and Controller for Solectron Corporation, a publicly traded company providing electronics manufacturing and supply chain management services. From 1991 to 1992, Mr. Kulzer was Group Controller/CFO for the North American Operations of Dentsply International, Inc., a publicly traded company that develops, manufactures and distributes professional dental products. From 1982 to 1990, Mr. Kulzer was Director of Internal Auditing for Hershey Foods Corporation. Previously, Mr. Kulzer was a Senior Management Consultant for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Mr. Kulzer holds a BSBA in Accounting from the University of Rhode Island and did post graduate studies in the MBA program at the University of Rochester.

Mr. Alex Sum, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development

Alex Sum leads the product marketing and Business Development functions at GCT. He is responsible for directing the product definition and marketing research efforts, and setting corporate business objectives and "time to market" goals. Mr. Sum has served as our Vice President of Marketing and Business Development since May 2002. From March 1992 to May 2002, Mr. Sum was Product Marketing Manager at Philips Semiconductor, the predecessor company of NXP Semiconductors, N.V., a semiconductor manufacturing company. From March 1983 to January 1992, Mr. Sum was Product/Test Engineering Supervisor at Supertex Inc., a technology company producing high voltage analog and mixed signal semiconductor components. From September 1977 to March 1983, Mr. Sum was Product / Test Engineering Supervisor at Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., a mixed signal, memory and discrete semiconductor company. From April 1995 to September 1997, Mr. Sum was Test/Wafer fab processing Engineering at Siliconix, the predecessor company of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., a mixed signal, analog semiconductor company. Mr. Sum holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University.

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Dr. Jeongmin "Jeemee" Kim, Vice President of Engineering

Jeongmin Kim, Ph.D., is focused on developing wireless multimedia SOC based on Bluetooth or Wireless LAN and associated embedded cores for GCT Semiconductor, as well as overseeing the company's mobile media processor initiative. Dr. Kim brings a great deal of experience to the position, with more than nine years of service with Samsung Electronics and Korea Telecom working on multimedia semiconductor design. Dr. Kim has served as our Vice President of Engineering since July 2003 and as our Director of Engineering from February 2001 to June 2003. Prior to joining us, Dr. Kim was involved in many industrial research projects relating to telecommunications technologies, including working as an independent design engineer in the development of an MPEG2 video decoder for HDTV with Daewoo Electronics, a home electronics company, from 1997 to 1998; a high performance H.263 video codec application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with Korea Telecom, an integrated wired/wireless telecommunication service provider, from 1995 to 1997; and a high performance microcontroller for Samsung Electronics from 1993 to 1995. Dr. Kim holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in the high performance CPU architecture, also from Seoul National University.