Nancy H. Handel

Biographical Information
Nancy H. Handel has been a director of Broadcom "since November 2005. Handel was the senior vice president, chief financial officer of Applied Materials Inc., a supplier of equipment and services to the global semiconductor, flat panel and solar industries, from October 2004 through November 2006. From November 2006 to January 2007, she served as senior vice president, finance at Applied Materials and assisted in the transition with its new CFO. She retired from Applied Materials in January 2007. From 1985 to October 2004 she served in various key financial leadership positions at Applied Materials, including four years as deputy CFO, corporate controller and principal accounting officer, and 13 years as treasurer. At Applied Materials, she set the "tone at the top" for a high integrity management culture and exercised broad responsibility for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. In 2006, she was named one of the "Best CFOs in America" by Institutional Investor magazine and Applied Materials was named among the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" by Business Ethics magazine. Prior to joining Applied Materials, Handel held various financial management positions with Raychem Corp., an electronics manufacturer; Crown Zellerbach Corp., a paper manufacturing company; and two private early-stage companies. She received a B.S. in Economics from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Ohio State University and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program."