Officer Bios

Tom C.K. Yuen – Chairman and CEO
Mr. Yuen has served as the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company since January 1994. Mr. Yuen has also served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of SRSWOWcast, Inc., the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, since 1999. From March 1998 until its sale to a third party in September 2006, Mr. Yuen served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of ValenceTech Limited, a former wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. Prior to joining SRS Labs, Mr. Yuen co-founded in 1981 AST Research, Inc., a personal computer manufacturer. He served as AST’s Co-Chairman and Chief Operating Officer. Under his leadership, AST became a Fortune 500 company in 1991 and its stock was named the Best Performing NASD Stock of 1991. Mr. Yuen departed AST in 1992 and focused his efforts on investing in new projects. Before co-founding AST, he held various engineering and project management positions with Hughes Aircraft Company, Sperry Univac and Computer Automation. Mr. Yuen received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 1974 with School Honors. He is also an Honorary Professor of China Nationality University in Beijing. Mr. Yuen is the recipient of several awards from the University of California, Irvine, including the UCI Medal in 1990; the outstanding Engineering Alumni Award in 1987 and the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1986. He was named one of the top 25 executives of the computer industry by the Computer Reseller News Magazine in 1988 and 1991 In 1997, Mr. Yuen received the Director of the Year award from the Orange County Forum for Corporate Directors. Mr. Yuen is also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PrimeGen Biotech, LLC, a private stem cell research Company.

Ulrich Gottschling – Chief Financial Officer
Ulrich Gottschling has served as Chief Financial Officer of SRS Labs, Inc. since January 2006. Previously, Mr. Gottschling served as CFO of Valor Computerized Systems, Inc. (VCS), which offers integrated software solutions from design-through-manufacturing to the electronics supply chain, from 1999 to 2005 and as President of Operations of VCS since 2000. He was also CFO and a member of the board of directors of E4ENET.Com, Inc., an affiliated company of VCS which offers business-to-business collaboration technology. Prior to joining VCS, Mr. Gottschling was CFO of Sound Source Interactive, Inc, a publicly-held entertainment software company, from 1995 to 1999 and also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Sound Source from 1997 to 1999.

Alan Kraemer – Chief Technology Officer
Alan D. Kraemer has served as Chief Technology Officer of SRS Labs since January 2005. He has also served as Executive Vice President, Technology and Business Development since June 2004. Prior thereto, he served as Vice President, Engineering of the Company since April 2000 and Director of Engineering since February 1994. In addition, Mr. Kraemer served as President of Sierra Digital Productions, Inc., a compact disc production and recording company, since August 1989. Prior to joining SRS Labs, Mr. Kraemer served as Senior Vice President of Engineering of De LaRue Printrak, a manufacturer of automatic fingerprint identification systems, Vice President of Engineering for AST Research, a personal computer manufacturer, Vice President of Engineering with Point4 Data Corporation, and as Director of Software Engineering of Northrop Electronics.

Michael J. Franzi – Vice President, Sales & Licensing
Michael J. Franzi has served as VP of Sales - Licensing of SRS Labs since August 2005. Before joining SRS, Mr. Franzi was Chief Marketing Officer at THX - formerly a division of Lucasfilm from October 2004 to August 2005. THX is a leading supplier of technology solutions and services for the Consumer Electronics, Cinema, DVD Authoring, Games and Automotive markets. While at THX, Mr. Franzi was instrumental in building an enhanced sales team, improved marketing operations and successfully led the installation of new processes improving the responsiveness of the professional service groups. Prior to THX, Mr. Franzi was VP of Americas: Marketing and Sales for a subsidary company of KDDI Corporation. There he successfully launched many innovative products for real time monitoring of video quality, into the professional TV broadcast and post production markets. Prior to that, he held senior sales and marketing management positions at leading technology companies including Planar Systems and Tektronix. Mr Franzi holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and has attended executive management programs at Aresty Institute of Executive Education, The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania and University of Southern California, School of Business.

Sarah Yang – Vice President, Software Engineering
Sarah Yang has served as Vice Presedent of Software Engineering since January 2006 and as Senior Director of Software Engineering since 2004. Previously, Ms. Yang served as Director of Software Engineering from 2001. Ms. Yang joined SRS Labs in February of 2000 as senior DSP engineer. Prior to joining SRS, Ms. Yang was Senior Consultant at CSC and has held senior software engineering positions at Vicor Corporation and National Instruments. Ms. Yang holds an MS in Physics from Texas A&M University and an MS in Electrical Engineering from The Institute of Acoustics in China.