Most people know Logitech as a manufacturer of mice, the handheld controls that help us operate our computers. Today the company also creates webcams, speakers and other peripherals for gaming devices like the Wii and Xbox (including wireless guitars used in the “Guitar Hero” series), as well as for digital music and home entertainment systems. Last November, the Swiss-founded company — headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges, with its U.S. base in Fremont — agreed to buy LifeSize Communications, an Austin, Texas-based maker of high-definition video-conferencing systems. For the next year, the $2.2 billion company (Nasdaq: LOGI) will be digesting that $409 million acquisition while expanding its operation further into China.
THE QUICK BIO
Catherine Valentine has been a fixture on the Silicon Valley legal scene for the better part of two decades. She joined Logitech in 2003 as general counsel after serving as GC for Good Technology Inc. for a year. From 1994 to 2002 Valentine was general counsel for Intuit Inc. Before that she worked at some of the biggest names of the early tech boom — Macromedia, Go Corp. and Autodesk Inc. She graduated from University of Chicago Law School in 1977 and has a bachelor’s in finance and economics from the University of Illinois.
