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Craig H. Barratt
Craig Barratt opening NASDAQ market 2006
Born (1962-05-12) May 12, 1962 (age 62)
Sydney Australia
Alma materStanford University
OccupationSVP Access & Energy
EmployerGoogle
Board member ofIntuitive Surgical

Craig H. Barratt (born May 12, 1962) is an Australian technology executive who serves as Senior Vice President, Access and Energy, at Google. [1] [2]

Barratt previously served as the CEO of Atheros from 2003, through its IPO in 2004 until its acquisition by Qualcomm in 2011.[3] He continued as President of Qualcomm Atheros upon the close of the acquisition in May 2011[4] until early 2013.

Barratt is sometimes confused with Craig Barrett, the former Chairman and CEO of Intel,[5] but they are not related.

Open Source Software

Barratt is the author of BackupPC, an open source backup system. He is the author of the original version of PSfrag, a LaTeX package. He has also contributed to Rsync and other open source projects.


Education

Barratt holds Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees from Stanford University, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Sydney in Australia.[6] He completed high school at Barker College in 1979.

Barratt is the co-author of a book on Linear Controller Design, which is now freely available online.[7]

References

  1. ^ Rolfe Winkler and Alistair Barr (23 June 2014). "A New Face Near the Top of Google". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones and Company, Inc.
  2. ^ Alistair Barr (23 January 2015). "Google's Wireless Efforts Are Led by a Geek's Geek". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
  3. ^ Ashlee Vance (5 January 2011). "Silicon Valley's Other Craig (Barratt) Cashes In". Businessweek.com.
  4. ^ "Qualcomm Completes $3.1 Billion Acquisition of Atheros Communications - Qualcomm". Qualcomm.
  5. ^ Roberts, Timothy (28 April 2002). "Just passing through". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
  6. ^ "Intuitive Surgical - Board of Directors". intuitivesurgical.com.
  7. ^ Boyd, Stephen P; Barratt, Craig H (1991), Linear controller design : limits of performance, Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0-13-538687-3