Simon Biddiscombe SVP and CFO, QLogic

Reporting to CEO and COB H.K. Desai

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on April 9, 2008 at 3:33 pm

QLogic Corp. announced the appointment of
Simon Biddiscombe to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer. He is expected to join the company in late April.

Biddiscombe has over 18 years of accounting and financial
reporting experience which includes his most recent position as Senior
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Mindspeed Technologies,
a Newport Beach, California based networking communication solutions
company. Prior to joining Mindspeed in 2000, he was Senior Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of Wyle Electronics. He began
his career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Biddiscombe
will report directly to chairman and CEO of QLogic H.K. Desai in his new role.

QLogic Corp.

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