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Charles “CJ” Prober

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Charles (CJ) Prober is Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of NETGEAR since January 2024. Prior to joining NETGEAR, Mr. Prober served as President of Life360, Inc. ("Life360"), a consumer software company, from January 2022 to July 2023. Mr. Prober continues to serve on the board of directors of Life360. Mr. Prober joined Life360 via the acquisition of Tile, Inc. ("Tile"), a software and consumer electronics company, in January 2022 and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Tile from September 2018 to January 2022. Mr. Prober also previously served as a member of Tile’s board of directors from February 2018 to January 2022, including as its Executive Chairman from February 2018 to September 2018. Before then, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of GoPro, Inc. from January 2017 to February 2018 and its Senior Vice President of Software and Services from June 2014 to December 2016. Prior thereto, Mr. Prober held executive leadership roles at Electronic Arts Inc. and Bioware/Pandemic (acquired by EA in 2008), and prior to his executive leadership roles, Mr. Prober was a consultant with McKinsey & Company and a corporate attorney with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Mr. Prober received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of Laws from McGill University.

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