Patrick C.S. Lo co-founded NETGEAR in 1996 and later served as its longtime Chairman and CEO. Before NETGEAR, he spent 1983 to 1995 at Hewlett-Packard in sales, technical support, product management and marketing roles in the U.S. and Asia. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University and was named Ernst & Young National Technology Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006.

Mark G. Merrill co-founded NETGEAR in 1996 and later served as Chief Technology Officer. Before NETGEAR, he worked at SynOptics Communications, later part of Bay Networks, on system design and analog implementations for early 10BASE-T networking products. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

CJ Prober leads NETGEAR and has served on its board since joining the company. He previously served as President of Life360 and CEO of Tile, and held executive roles at GoPro and Electronic Arts. Earlier, he worked at McKinsey & Company and Wilson Sonsini. He studied business management at the University of Manitoba and law at McGill University.

Bryan Murray has served as NETGEAR's CFO since 2018 after holding multiple finance leadership roles at the company, including Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller. Before NETGEAR, he worked in public accounting at Deloitte. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is a Certified Public Accountant.