Microsemi Corp Chief Executive Officer James Peterson and Broadcom Corp Senior Vice-President Vahid Manian, who both serve on the board of STEC Inc, claim to have earned degrees that their schools can't verify.

Peterson, who lists degrees from Brigham Young University in government filings, never received them from that school, said Carri Jenkins, a university spokeswoman in Provo, Utah. He did take classes at Brigham Young from 1978 to 1980, Jenkins said.

Manian didn't earn degrees from the University of California at Irvine that are listed in his company biography, according to the school's registrar. Broadcom's website says he has bachelor's and master's of business administration degrees from the university.