On January 17, 2018, Starboard Value LP announced that it would be nominating a slate of 9 candidates: Mary Cranston, Peter Feld, Jonathan Khazam, Thomas Lacey, Efrat Makov, Jon Olson, Jeffrey Smith, Jorge Titinger, and Gregory Waters for election to the Board of Directors of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. at the Company's 2018 annual meeting of shareholders.