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Gary Gist is Chairman of Intersil's Board of Directors. Mr. Gist has been one of the Company’s directors since the Company’s inception in August of 1999. Mr. Gist is a member of the Compensation Committee. Currently, Mr. Gist is the President and CEO of Palomar Companies LLC (Palomar). Currently, Palomar is the parent company for Palomar Technologies, Inc., a capital equipment supplier to semiconductor, disk drive, and other electronic manufacturers, and Palomar Display Products, Inc., a supplier of FLIR displays to the US Military. From mid-1993 to 1995, Mr. Gist was the Division Manager of the Technology Products Division of Hughes Industrial Electronics Company. Mr. Gist led a leveraged buy-out of the division which became Palomar. Since 1995, Palomar has bought and sold several companies in the Palomar Group including HID, an RFID access control company. Prior to that, Mr. Gist served as President of Transworld Communication, a manufacturer of radio communications equipment for the worldwide markets. He was also a former CPA with Touche & Ross. | 