Betsy S. Atkins |
Andrew M. Miller |
Chief Executive Officer, Baja Corporation LLC and Co-Founder of Ascend Communications
Ms. Betsy S. Atkins has served as Chief Executive Officer of Baja Ventures, a technology, life sciences and renewable energy early stage venture capital fund, since 1994. She served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Clear Standards, Inc., which developed SaaS enterprise level software monitoring/calculating carbon emissions, from 2008 to 2009 until its sale to SAP. She previously served as Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of NCI, Inc., a neutraceutical functional food company, from 1991 through 1993. Ms. Atkins co-founded Ascend Communications, a manufacturer of communications equipment, in 1989, where she was also a member of the board of directors until its acquisition by Lucent Technologies, a telecommunications systems, software and products company, in 1999. Ms. Atkins currently serves on the board of directors of Polycom, Inc., SunPower Corporation, Chico’s FAS, Inc., and Schneider Electric, Inc. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Atkins served on the boards of directors of Vonage Holdings Corp. from 2005 to 2007; Reynolds American, Inc. from 2004 to 2010; and Towers Watson & Co. in 2010. She served as a presidential appointee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. board of directors from 2001 to 2003. Ms. Atkins is also a board member of Florida International University’s College of Medicine Health Care Network Faculty Group Practice, Inc. Ms. Atkins brings significant global, sales, marketing and corporate governance experience to the Board. Ms. Atkins’ experience, through nearly 25 years of executive officer service with companies in a high growth phase, gives her a unique perspective on the Company’s business. Ms. Atkins has deep expertise in the areas of cloud, mobile, social media/marketing and ecommerce. Ms. Atkins also brings to the Board extensive knowledge in the areas of executive compensation and corporate governance.
Chairman of the Board of Polycom, Inc.
Former Chief Executive Officer and President of McAfee, Inc.
Dave DeWalt has more than 25 years of experience building innovative, industry-leading technology companies. He has a strong record of driving revenue growth at startups, midsize, and large companies, and has helped create more than $15 Billion in shareholder value thru a series of CEO-led industry changing major acquisitions. He has been named one of the top five CEOs of publicly traded software companies by "Institutional Investor" magazine and one of the 25 most influential executives in the technology industry by readers of "CRN" magazine.
Mr. DeWalt has held executive positions at such notable technology companies such as Oracle, EMC, Documentum, Intel, McAfee, Segue Software, and Quest Software. In addition, he currently holds Board of Director roles at companies such as Delta Airlines, Jive Software, McAfee (Which was acquired by Intel), and Polycom, where he is the Chairman.
A recognized authority on cybersecurity, he appears regularly on nationally televised news programs, has spoken numerous times at the World Economic Forum in Davos, participated in panel discussions alongside world leaders, and served as an advisor to the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), among others. In May 2011, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to reside on the National Security and Technology Advisory Council (NSTAC).
Mr. DeWalt received his bachelor's degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Delaware, where he was NCAA Division I All-American and the first wrestler inducted into the University of Delaware Athletics Hall of Fame.
Mr. DeWalt is still very active in sports. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and 3 children.
Chief Executive Officer, CereScan Corp.
John Kelley joined CereScan in April of 2009 and currently serves as Chair and CEO of this diagnostic functional brain imaging company with world leading correlated imaging and clinical data warehousing capabilities. Prior to serving in this capacity, he was employed at McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq Listed) in August 2001 as President and Chief Operating Officer and was named President and Chief Executive Officer in August of 2002. He added the position of Chairman in 2004. As Chief Executive Officer, he re-built the management team, introduced multiple products simultaneously on a global basis, acquired and integrated both private and public companies, modernized the company’s aging business processes and systems to meet compliance requirements and prepare for growth, and ultimately grew the company from a $200 million to $630 million annual revenue stream during one of the most tumultuous times for the technology industry. In February of 2007, Brocade Corporation acquired McDATA in a stock transaction valued at just under one billion dollars.
Prior to joining McDATA, Mr. Kelley served as Executive Vice President of Networks at Qwest Communications (NYSE Listed) from July of 2000 to December 2000 after its acquisition of US West Communications (NYSE Listed). Before the acquisition, he served as President of Wholesale and Interconnect Markets for US West from May of 1998 to June of 2000. From March 1995 to April of 1998, John served as Vice President and General Manager of Large Business and Government accounts and simultaneously held the position of President of Federal Services for US West.
Before joining US West, Mr. Kelley was the Area President for Mead Corporation’s Zellerbach Southwestern Division and Vice President and General Manager for their Industrial Products Group from 1991 to 1995. Prior to his assignments at Mead, he held a number of senior and sales management positions at Annatek, Friden-Alcatel and Xerox Corporation.
His professional activities include being a member of the Board of Directors of Polycom since 2000. He is currently Chair of their Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Kelley is also a board member of three privately backed start-up companies, Circadence, Stored IQ and Aztek Networks. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Captaris Corporation in Redmond, Washington.
Mr. Kelley is very active in a variety of non-public activities. He has been a board member of the Colorado Women’s Vision Foundation “Allies Group” whose mission is to advance and retain corporate women leaders since 1997. From 1997 to 1999, he served on the Marshall School of Telecommunication’s Management Advisory Board at the University of Southern California and he was appointed to the Colorado Governor’s Commission on Science and Technology for two years in 2004. He was the executive sponsor for the US West Association of Black Telecommunications Professionals from 1998 to 2000. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at Mount St. Vincent Home, an institution serving children with emotional and behavioral disorders. He has been the National Vice-Chairman for INROADS, Inc., an organization supporting the development and placement of talented minority youths. He has actively served on a variety of committees and support projects for the American Red Cross, United Way, Special Olympics, and the Boy Scouts of America.
Mr. Kelley has been a frequent keynote speaker focusing on technology, leadership, best practices management and corporate ethics. He has been asked to address such organizations as the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business Deans; the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business; Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio; Denver University School of Business; Colorado State University School of Business; the Communications Managers Association of America; American Electronics Association; and the Computer Software Industry Association of Colorado. More recently he was honored to be the 2010 commencement speaker at the graduation ceremonies at Heidelberg University in Ohio.
Mr. Kelley holds a BS degree in Business from the University of Missouri, St. Louis. A native of Missouri, he currently resides in Golden, Colorado.
Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Conexant Systems, Inc.
Mr. Mercer joined the Polycom Board of Directors in November 2007. He is a recognized technology industry leader whose career spans three decades across various executive functions from operations and strategic planning to finance within the storage and computer industry segments. Mr. Mercer served as Chairman and CEO of Conexant from 2008 unitl its acquistion by Golden Gate Capital in 2011. He served as Chairman of the Board at Adaptec, Inc. until 2008 having served as its interim CEO in 2005. Mr. Mercer was also at Western Digital Corporation as its chief financial and administrative officer in the early 90s, returning 2001-2004 as its CFO during which time he also served as advisor to the CEO regarding business development matters. At Dell in the late 90s he served in vice president of finance roles, and as Dell's vice president of product development for its desktop and notebook product lines. Mr. Mercer's other executive positions have included CFO of TeraLogic, Inc., CFO and controller of LSI Logic Corporation, and as an accountant with Price Waterhouse. In addition to Polycom, Mr. Mercer currently serves on the board of QLogic Corp. and he has previously served on the boards of Alantec, Inc., Hitachi Global Storage Technoligies Pte. Ltd., MEMEC Ltd. NetRatings, Inc., Palm, Inc., SMART Modular Technologies (WWH) Inc. and Synergy Semiconductor, Inc. He received his B.S. in Accounting from California Polytechnic University.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Polycom, Inc.
Andy Miller was appointed Polycom's Chief Executive Officer in May 2010. He joined the Company in July 2009 as Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations. In that position he was responsible for Polycom's go-to-market strategy, including the sales, channel, alliances, and sales engineering organizations.
A video and networking industry veteran, Mr. Miller has a brilliant track record of technology industry and sales achievement. Over the course of his career, Mr. Miller has led world-class sales organizations and driven growth for such companies as Cisco, where he held several leadership roles in sales and marketing from 1990 to 2001, and Tandberg, where he was CEO from 2001 to 2006. Immediately prior to joining Polycom, Mr. Miller was global president of IPC Information Systems, where he was responsible for sales, marketing, operations and engineering.
Mr. Miller holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina. He is on the board of directors for Bridgepoint Education, Inc., is a former chairperson of the Young Presidents' Organization/Stanford Executive Education Program, and a former fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Managing Director AEA Investors and Former Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Nortel Networks
Mr. Owens joined the Polycom Board of Directors in December 2005 and was previously a director of Polycom from August 1999 to May 2004. Mr. Owens joined AEA Investors, a New York private equity company, in April 2004. Mr. Owens is also the former CEO of Nortel and vice chairman to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Mr. Owens is a recognized leader in the telecommunications industry, which he entered following a distinguished military career. He joined Nortel Networks in 2004 as chief executive officer and vice chairman and during his tenure re-established the company as a strong, stable and ethical leader in the telecommunications and enterprise IT global marketplace. Prior to joining Nortel, Mr. Owens was chief executive officer and chairman of Teledesic LLC and president, COO, and vice chairman of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the largest employee-owned technology company in the U.S.
Mr. Owens was a career officer in the U.S. Navy where he served as commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in 1990 and 1991, and as senior military assistant to Secretaries of Defense Frank Carlucci and Dick Cheney. His military career culminated in his position as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff where he had responsibility for the reorganization and restructuring of the armed forces in the post-Cold War era. He is widely recognized for bringing commercial high technology into the U.S. Department of Defense for military applications and as the architect of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), an advanced systems technology approach to military operations.
Mr. Owens also sits on the board of CenturyTel,Inc. and Wipro Ltd., as well as several private and philanthropic boards. Mr. Owens holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy, Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University and a Master's in Management from George Washington University.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Deltek, Inc.
Kevin Parker, President and CEO, Chairman of the Board of Deltek, is a recognized technology industry leader and the driving force behind Deltek’s strategy of providing superior enterprise software, information solutions and consulting services to leading businesses worldwide. Leading more than 1,600 employees in twelve global offices, Mr. Parker looks to further Deltek’s industry leadership, expertise and product portfolio in a range of industries including architecture, engineering and construction; government contracting; aerospace and defense; research and consulting; accounting; legal; marketing communications; professional services; project manufacturing; nonprofit; and systems integration.
Prior to Deltek, Mr. Parker served as PeopleSoft's CFO from October 2000 to December 2004. He was also named co-president of PeopleSoft in October 2004. At PeopleSoft he was responsible for internal operations as well as worldwide finance and accounting functions, including administration, human resources, legal, facilities and the IT organization worldwide. During his tenure at PeopleSoft, the company significantly improved its margins, increased its cash flow and return on investments, reduced expenses and lowered days sales outstanding (DSO) to best in class levels. Prior to joining PeopleSoft, Mr. Parker served as senior vice president and chief financial officer for CRM provider Aspect Communications Corp., as well as held senior management positions at Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Standard Microsystems and Toshiba America. In addition, Mr. Parker was previously with the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse.
Mr. Parker is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. In 2000, CFO Magazine named him one of 20 CFOs who would make a difference in the next decade. He received his bachelor's degree in accounting from Clarkson University where he serves on the Board of Trustees. Parker also serves on the Board of Camber Corporation, a leading provider of professional and management services, information technology, engineering, and advanced training solutions to federal government agencies.