Athar Siddiqee is Vice President of Global Total Rewards at Micron Technology, an $80 billion high-tech firm with 60,000 employees. He has extensive experience in this field, having served in rewards leadership positions at Cisco, Synopsys, SanDisk and NetApp, among others.

Athar is currently the Chair of the WorldatWork Executive Rewards Advisory Council and earned the Certified Compensation Professional (CCP®) and Global Remuneration Professional (GRP®) designations. A life-long Bay Area resident, he has taught professional courses for many years at WorldatWork, UC Santa Cruz Extension and San Jose State University. He has also taught WorldatWork courses in Spanish in both Costa Rica and Mexico, so has been successful confusing students in multiple languages.

Athar earned an MBA in Mangement from Santa Clara University and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics/Economics from UCLA. Despite failing numerous times, Athar continues to pursue his personal goal of becoming a stand-up comedian. He lives with his wife, son and daughter in Sunnyvale, California. Even they don't think he's funny.