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Netgear (stylized, trademarked, and marketed as NETGEAR), founded in 1996, is a US manufacturer of computer networking equipment and other computer hardware.
The company was incorporated January 8, 1996 as a subsidiary of Bay Networks, to "focus on providing networking solutions for small businesses and homes."[1] In August 1998, the company was purchased by Nortel as part of its acquisition of Bay Networks. Netgear remained a wholly owned subsidiary of Nortel until March 2000, when it began transitioning to third-party ownership. It became fully independent from Nortel as of February 2002.[2][3]
Netgear sells primarily through a sales channel network, which includes traditional retailers, online retailers, direct market resellers, value added resellers, and broadband service providers in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. Its main retail competitors are Linksys and D-Link. In 2007, the United States (38% of revenue) and the United Kingdom (52%) were the company's two largest markets; however, EMEA and Asia Pacific were the fastest growing, with growth rates of 28% and 34%, respectively

CEO

Patrick Lo
Director

Jef Graham

Director

George Parker

Director

Julie Shimer
Director

Timothy Godwin
Director

Ralph Faison

Director

Linwood Lacy
Director

Gregory Rossmann

Director

Jocelyn Carter-Miller
CFO

Christine Gorjanc
CTO

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Engineering

Charles Olson
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It enables the company to have a simple and clear coordination from the top management; also reduces overhead; it also provides clearly marked career paths fro hiring new employees and promoting employees; and most of all employees will be able to work together with their colleagues who have the same interests.

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