Chris O'Reilly

Chris is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience leading and driving domestic and international sales, marketing, and application engineering organizations.

Chris was Corporate VP of Marketing for NetLogic Microsystems where he helped drive NetLogic from pre-revenue in 1999 to $400 million per year of growth in 2011 prior to Broadcom’s $3.7 billion acquisition, which closed in February 2012. He led worldwide marketing activities for a broad family of products addressing a wide range of end markets, including data centers, cloud computing, service providers, network security, enterprise networking and automotive. Chris also successfully launched and grew multiple new organic businesses while at NetLogic. Subsequent to the Broadcom acquisition, Chris remained at Broadcom leading marketing and application engineering for the Processors and Wireless Infrastructure division.

Prior to NetLogic, Chris held various Microprocessor, Microcontroller, and ASIC marketing management roles at Hitachi Semiconductor. Chris graduated with a BSEE from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 1996.