Primary Job Title Founder & Chairman of the Board Primary Organization 
CommScope
Gender Male
Mr. Drendel has been our chairman of the board of directors since the 2011 acquisition by The Carlyle Group. He served as our chairman of the board and chief executive officer from July 28, 1997 when CommScope spun off from General Instrument Corporation (subsequently renamed General Semiconductor, Inc.) and became an independent company until The
Carlyle Group acquisition. Effective with The Carlyle Group acquisition, Mr. Drendel stepped down as chief executive officer but remained the chairman of the board. Mr. Drendel served as a director of GI Delaware, a subsidiary of General Instrument Corporation and its predecessors from 1987 to 1992, and a director of General Instrument Corporation from 1992 until 2000. Mr. Drendel served as president and chairman of CommScope, Inc. from 1986 to 1997, and had served as chief executive officer of CommScope since 1976. From 1971 to 1976, Mr. Drendel held various positions within CommScope. Mr. Drendel is a director of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, the principal trade association of the cable industry in the United States, and was inducted into the Cable Television Hall of Fame in 2002. Mr. Drendel joined the Board of Directors of Tyco International, Ltd. on September 14, 2012 and served as a director of Sprint Nextel Corporation from August 2005 to May 2008 and as a director of Nextel Communications, Inc. from August 1997 to August 2005.
