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Lexar Media (Stock symbol: LEXR ) Acquired by Micron Technology (2006 $ 679,000,000 )

47300 Bayside Parkway
Fremont, CA 94538
USA
(510)-413-1200

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Company Summary

Management Team

Management

CEO: Eric B Stang (7/01)

Finance: Michael P Scarpelli (01/17/2006)

Sales/Marketing: Leslie Adams

; Jeff Palma

Business Development: Farshid Tabrizi

Former Employees: Bobby Billman

; Brian T McGee

; Carlton Osborne

; Doug Kellam; Eric S Whitaker

; Gregory Wong

; Jack Peterson; Jim Gustke

; John Forrester

; John Reimer; Joseph Young

; Mark W Adams

; Michael J Perez; Mike Kapul

; Paul McGuire

; Petro Estakhri

; Ramki Ramakrishnan

; Raphael Mehrbians

; Robert Leibowitz; Robert Netter

; Ron Bissinger

; Sam Nemazie

; Sasha Pesic

; Steffen Hellmold

; Timothy Sullivan

Board

Outside board: (May no longer be on the board) William Dodds (Woodbridge Communications VP)

; Robert Hinckley (Xilinx General Counsel)

; Brian Jacobs (St. Paul Venture Capital)

; Charles Levine (Sprint PCS)

; Mary Tripsas (Harvard Business School Professor)

Former outside board: John Rollwagen (St. Paul Venture Capital); William Stewart (APV Technology Partners)

Company

Business description: Lexar Media, Inc. is a leading designer, marketer and licensor of award-winning removable flash-based digital storage media, card readers and ATA controller solutions for the digital photography, consumer electronics, industrial and communications markets. Lexar Media brands digital memory cards in the industry's most popular formats including CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, MultiMediaCard and SD. As a digital storage innovator, Lexar Media was the first to develop and advance proprietary read-write speed standards for its USB-enabled CompactFlash cards and holds over 60 controller patents.

Customers include: Kodak; SONY

; Toshiba; Casio

Partners include: Digital Railroad

; Google

; Samsung

; SONY

; Ubisoft

; Corel

; Digital China; Eastman Kodak

; InterWorks; MGM Studios

; Nikon; Optosys Technologies; Viking Components

Capital

Rounds: 5

Capital raised: 76.2M

Ownership: Acquired by Micron Technology (2006 $ 679,000,000

)

Stock Symbol: LEXR

VCs include: APV Technology Partners; St. Paul Venture Capital; Van Wagoner Capital Management; Mellon Ventures

Corporate investors: GE Capital; Sony Strategic Venture Investment

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Overview

Record updated: Jan 2011

Sector: Storage

Year Founded: 1996

Headcount: 151-200 as of Jan 2002

Rounds: 5

Capital Raised: 76.2M

Ownership: Acquired by Micron Technology (2006 $ 679,000,000

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Stock Symbol: LEXR