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Vahid Manian, a senior vice president of Broadcom and the head of its manufacturing operations, had his employment with the company “terminated” today, according to a terse regulatory filing. The company said it has begun a search to find his successor. The termination came after “questions surfaced about the validity of academic degrees listed in his company biography,” according to a Bloomberg News report.

Bloomberg reported that Manian didn’t earn degrees from the University of California at Irvine that are cited on the company’s Web site, according to the schools registrar. Broadcom’s Web site said Manian had bachelors and masters of business administration degrees from the University of California at Irvine, according to the Bloomberg report. The executive attended the school between September 1979 and August 1983 but wasn’t awarded any degrees,  according to the report citing Mark Fonseca, who is responsible for privacy issues in the school’s registrar’s office.

Manian joined Broadcom in 1996 as director of operations and became vice president of operations the following year. He was elevated to his most recent position in 2005.

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