Craig H. Barratt

Craig H. Barratt
Craig Barratt opening NASDAQ market 2006
Born	May 12, 1962 Sydney Australia
Alma mater	Stanford University
Occupation	SVP Access & Energy
Employer	Google
Board member of	Intuitive Surgical

Craig H. Barratt (born May 12, 1962) is an Australian technology executive who serves as Senior Vice President, Access and Energy, at Google. ^{[1] [2]}

Barratt previously served as the CEO of Atheros from 2003, through its IPO in 2004 until its acquisition by Qualcomm in 2011.^[3] He continued as President of Qualcomm Atheros upon the close of the acquisition in May 2011^[4] until early 2013.

Barratt is sometimes confused with Craig Barrett, the former Chairman and CEO of Intel,^[5] but they are not related.

Open Source Software

Barratt is the author of BackupPC, an open source backup system. He is the author of the original version of PSfrag, a LaTeX package. He has also contributed to Rsync and other open source projects.

Barratt is the co-author of a book on Linear Controller Design, which has been open sourced.^[6]

Education

Barratt holds Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees from Stanford University, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in pure mathematics and physics from the University of Sydney in Australia.^[7] He completed high school at Barker College in 1979.

References

1. Rolfe Winkler and Alistair Barr (23 June 2014). "A New Face Near the Top of Google". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones and Company, Inc.
2. Alistair Barr (23 January 2015). "Google’s Wireless Efforts Are Led by a Geek’s Geek". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
3. Ashlee Vance (5 January 2011). "Silicon Valley's Other Craig (Barratt) Cashes In". Businessweek.com.
4. "Qualcomm Completes $3.1 Billion Acquisition of Atheros Communications - Qualcomm". Qualcomm.
5. Roberts, Timothy (28 April 2002). "Just passing through". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
6. Boyd, Stephen P; Barratt, Craig H (1991), Linear controller design : limits of performance, Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0-13-538687-3
7. "Intuitive Surgical - Board of Directors". intuitivesurgical.com.