Sequoia Communications Appoints New Board Member; Former Motorola CTO Dennis Roberson to Represent Sequoia Communications on the FCC Advisory Board

Business Wire, March 29, 2005

SAN DIEGO -- Sequoia Communications, the RF semiconductor company setting new benchmarks in multi-mode design and integration, today announced the appointment of a new board member, Dennis Roberson. Roberson will also represent Sequoia Communications on the FCC Technology Advisory Board. Roberson previously served on the FCC board representing Motorola and, after joining Sequoia Communications, was asked to serve an additional term, furthering the FCC's pursuit of diversification with representation from smaller, privately held companies.

Roberson has over 30 years of engineering experience in the telecommunications industry. Currently, Roberson is vice provost for new initiatives and executive director of the Institute of Business and Interprofessional Studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Roberson said he joined Sequoia Communications' team in a quest to help solve one of the great modern-day Holy Grail challenges.

"Sequoia Communications' RF transceiver architecture and multi-mode, single chip implementation will help propel third generation technology into widespread use through the resulting reduction in size and power consumption for the product implementation," said Roberson. "Many larger companies have tried to accomplish this feat with lesser communications technologies, but are still struggling with a solution. I am pleased to serve on Sequoia Communications' Board and to represent the company on the FCC advisory committee."

Prior to Illinois Institute of Technology, Roberson was executive vice president and chief technology officer for Motorola, Inc., where he led the strategic and visionary business-based technology advancements that served as the company's foundation for future growth.

Dave Shepard, CEO of Sequoia Communications, said he is delighted to welcome Dennis Roberson to the board of directors.

"As a technology luminary in the telecommunications industry, Dennis brings to Sequoia Communications significant expertise in technology product research and development from a variety of environments including Motorola, AT&T and IBM," said Shepard. "His deep knowledge and his representation on the FCC board will be a great asset to the company as we continue to develop our advanced multi-mode RF products."

Roberson began his professional career with AT&T where he built the first digital display phone and wrote a report outlining the uses of such capability, most of which are in use today. Later, Roberson joined IBM and spent 17 years in a variety of lead engineering roles, eventually becoming a lab director with responsibility for over 3,000 engineers and support personnel. Roberson left IBM in 1988 to join Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, now part of HP) as vice president of software and then rejoined AT&T in 1994 as corporate vice president and general manager of the Computer Product Group. He worked for AT&T, and subsequently its spin-off, NCR as its senior vice president and chief technology officer, for four years before leaving to ultimately become the executive vice president and chief technology officer for Motorola.

About Sequoia Communications

Sequoia Communications enables wireless handset manufacturers to accelerate their time to market by shortening the RF design cycle of integrated multi-mode solutions. The company uniquely integrates different modes using a common architecture on a single chip enabling effective communications across multiple wireless standards including GSM/GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, GPS, WLAN and more. Single-chip RF transceivers developed using Sequoia Communications' innovative approach and common architecture will set new industry benchmarks in chip cost, component count, PCB size and power consumption. Founded in 2000, Sequoia Communications is headquartered in San Diego. For more information, please visit www.sequoiacommunications.com.