Craig Barratt
Craig Barratt | |
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Born | Sydney Australia | 12 May 1962
Education | |
Occupation | CEO |
Employer | Barefoot Networks |
Board member of | Intuitive Surgical |
Craig H. Barratt (born 12 May 1962) is an Australian technology executive who serves as Chief Executive Officer at Barefoot Networks.[1]
Barratt previously served as the CEO of Atheros from 2003, through its IPO in 2004 until its acquisition by Qualcomm in 2011.[2] He continued as President of Qualcomm Atheros upon the close of the acquisition in May 2011[3] until early 2013. Barratt then served as Senior Vice President, Access and Energy, at Google from 2012 until 2016.[4][5][6]
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.[7] 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.[8]
References
- ^ "Ushering in the next era of growth". Barefoot Networks Blog. 7 February 2017.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ Ashlee Vance (5 January 2011). "Silicon Valley's Other Craig (Barratt) Cashes In". Businessweek.com.
- ^ "Qualcomm Completes $3.1 Billion Acquisition of Atheros Communications - Qualcomm". Qualcomm.
- ^ Rolfe Winkler and Alistair Barr (23 June 2014). "A New Face Near the Top of Google". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones and Company, Inc.
- ^ Alistair Barr (23 January 2015). "Google's Wireless Efforts Are Led by a Geek's Geek". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
- ^ "Advancing Our Amazing Bet". Google Fiber Blog. 25 October 2016.
- ^ "Intuitive Surgical - Board of Directors". intuitivesurgical.com.
- ^ Boyd, Stephen P; Barratt, Craig H (1991), Linear controller design : limits of performance, Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0-13-538687-3