Craig H. Barratt

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.^[8]

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