Broadcom fires senior executive
from times wire reports
Broadcom Corp., the Irvine maker of chips for phones and consumer electronics, fired Senior Vice President Vahid Manian after questions surfaced about the validity of academic degrees listed in his company biography.
A search has begun for his replacement, the company said in a regulatory filing. Manian didn’t earn bachelor’s and MBA degrees from UC Irvine that are cited on the company’s website, according to the school’s registrar.
The executive, who oversaw global manufacturing at Broadcom, attended the school from September 1979 to August 1983 but didn’t earn any degrees.
