Analog Devices Promotes Seamus Brennan to Vice President, Corporate Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer

Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, today announced that Seamus Brennan has been promoted to vice president, corporate controller, and chief accounting officer, reporting to the CFO, effective December 8, 2008.

"Seamus has been instrumental in building a world-class finance and accounting organization dedicated to operational excellence, and transparency,” said Jerald G. Fishman, ADI president and CEO. “In this new position, he will continue to help ADI comply with the highest standards of financial reporting and corporate governance, and maximize the efficiency of its business processes.”

Since joining ADI in Limerick, Ireland in 1984, Mr. Brennan has played a key role in the development and implementation of the Company’s worldwide financial systems, processes, and controls. After serving as Limerick’s plant controller from 1989 to 1994, he transferred to ADI’s corporate headquarters in Norwood, Massachusetts to manage the implementation of the company’s worldwide enterprise software system for transaction processing and financial reporting. In 1997, he became assistant controller and in 2002, was promoted to corporate controller. For the past six years, Mr. Brennan has been managing ADI’s worldwide accounting and transaction processing, internal control, management planning and reporting, internal audit, and SEC reporting functions.

Prior to joining ADI, Mr. Brennan served for six years as a controller and financial systems manager for a regional development agency in Ireland. Earlier in his career, he spent five years in public accounting. Mr. Brennan holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and an associate of the Irish Taxation Institute.

In a separate press release, ADI also today announced that David A. Zinsner has been appointed vice president of finance and chief financial officer, effective January 12, 2009. (See press release, “Analog Devices Names David A. Zinsner Vice President and Chief Financial Officer”.)

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