Board of Directors

Manuel Alba has served as the Chair of the Board of Astera Labs’ since March of 2018. Additionally, he serves as director of Kardium (Canada) since 2008, Lightbits (Israel) since 2016, Xsight Labs (Israel) since 2017, Lyte.ai (California) since 2023, and Element Labs (Israel) since 2024. Previously, Mr. Alba was a co-founder, director and President of Galileo Technology (Israel, GALTF) from 1994 to 2001, director of Marvell (MRVL) from 2001 to 2004, director of Pixer (Israel) from 2005 to 2008, director of Copperleaf Technologies (Canada, CPLF) from 2010 to 2024, director of Annapurna Labs (Israel) from 2011 to 2015, director of Habana Labs (Israel) from 2016 to 2020, and director of Banias Labs (Israel) from 2020 to 2022. During his career, Mr. Alba has worked as a design engineer, technical marketing engineer, technology business executive, and active founding investor. Mr. Alba has also served as a board member of various non-profit organizations. Mr. Alba holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City, Master of Science degrees in Computer Engineering and Engineering Management from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Santa Clara.

Michael Hurlston has served as a member of Astera Labs’ board of directors since November 2022. Mr. Hurlston is currently the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Lumentum Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:LITE), an optical and photonic products company, where he has served since February 2025. Previously, Mr. Hurlston served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Synaptics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNA), a semiconductor company, from August 2019 to February 2025. Prior to joining Synaptics, Mr. Hurlston served as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Finisar Corporation, a telecommunications company, from January 2018 to August 2019. Before joining Finisar, Mr. Hurlston served in various roles at Broadcom Limited (Nasdaq:AVGO), a semiconductor company, and its predecessor corporation, from November 2001 to October 2017, including Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Mobile Connectivity Products/Wireless Communications and Connectivity Division from February 2016 to October 2017 and from September 2009 to January 2013 and as Executive Vice President of Sales from January 2013 to February 2016. Additionally, Mr. Hurlston previously held senior marketing and engineering positions at Oren Semiconductor, Inc., Avasem, Integrated Circuit Systems, Inc., MicroPower Systems Inc., Exar Corporation, and IC Works Inc. from 1991 to 2001. Mr. Hurlston has served as a member of the board of directors of Flextronics International, Ltd. (Nasdaq:FLEX), a manufacturing company, since September 2020, and currently serves on the Board of Executive Trustees of the UC Davis Foundation and on the Dean’s Executive Committee for the College of Engineering and the Dean’s Advisory Counsel for the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. Mr. Hurlston holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Davis.

Craig Barratt has served as a member of Astera Labs’ board of directors since March 2025. Dr. Barratt is currently an independent business consultant. Until May 2020, Dr. Barratt served as senior vice president and general manager of the Connectivity Group of Intel Corporation (Nasdaq:INTC), a semiconductor company, since its acquisition of Barefoot Networks, Inc., a computer networking company, in July 2019, where he previously served as president and chief executive officer since April 2017. Dr. Barratt held several different roles at Google, Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG), an Internet company, from June 2013 to January 2017, including senior vice president, access and energy. He previously served as president of Qualcomm Atheros, the networking and connectivity subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq:QCOM), a mobile technology company, from 2011 to 2013. He served as president, chief executive officer and a director of Atheros Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHR),, a fabless semiconductor company, from 2003 until its 2011 acquisition by Qualcomm. Dr. Barratt has served on the board of directors of Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISRG), a medical devices company, since April 2011, where he is currently chair. Dr. Barratt holds PhD and MS degrees from Stanford University, as well as a BS degree in electrical engineering and a BS degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Sydney in Australia.

Dr. Barratt's qualifications to serve on our board include his leadership experience scaling high-growth public and private technology companies, and his track record of driving innovation and products at companies like Google and Qualcomm, which provide valuable perspective for overseeing the Company's business, strategy, products and technologies.