Board of Directors
Steve Baloff
Steven N. Baloff has served as a director since 2003. Mr. Baloff joined Advanced Technologies Ventures (ATV) as Managing Director in 1996 and focuses on investments in the software, infrastructure and Internet services markets. Prior to joining ATV, Mr. Baloff founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Worldview Systems, a venture capital-backed start-up. Through a joint venture with Sabre Interactive, Worldwide Systems created and launched the Travelocity.com travel site. Mr. Baloff also held executive positions in sales, marketing and general management at Covalent Systems, a venture-backed computer systems vendor focused on the graphics arts industry. Mr. Baloff began his career in Booz-Allen & Hamilton’s San Francisco and London offices, where he focused on strategy engagements for a variety of technology companies in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Baloff holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Robert J. Finocchio, Jr.
Robert J. Finocchio, Jr. joined our board of directors in May 2010. Mr. Finocchio is a corporate director, private investor, part-time professor, and consultant. Since September 2000, Mr. Finocchio has been a Dean’s Executive Professor at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business. He currently is a director at Altera Corporation and Echelon Corporation. He was previously a director of Palmsource Inc., Pinnacle Systems, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. From August 1997 to September 2000, he served as Chairman of the Board of Informix Corporation, an information management software company. From July 1997 until July 1999, Mr. Finocchio served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Informix. From December 1988 until May 1997, Mr. Finocchio was employed with 3Com Corporation where he held various positions, most recently serving as President, 3Com Systems. Prior to 3Com, he spent nine years at ROLM Corporation. Mr. Finocchio is Chair of the Board of Trustees at of Santa Clara University and a consultant to Advanced Technology Ventures. Mr. Finocchio holds a B.S. in Economics from Santa Clara University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Justin Label
Justin Label has served as a director since 2004. Mr. Label is currently employed by Bessemer Venture Partners. Since joining Bessemer in 2001, Mr. Label has focused on investments in software and clean technology companies. He previously worked as an investor at Valent Group, an early stage venture capital firm, and a strategy consultant with Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Label holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College.
James Richardson
James T. Richardson has served as a director since 2002. Mr. Richardson is a corporate director, private investor and consultant to high-tech companies. Prior to joining our board, Mr. Richardson served in various executive positions at a number of technology companies, most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the website analytics software firm WebTrends Corporation, which merged with NetIQ Corporation in 2001. Mr. Richardson serves on the board of directors of FEI Company, a diversified scientific instruments company, and on the board of directors of Digimarc Corporation, a provider of digital watermarking, content identification and management, and media and object discovery technologies. He served on the board of directors of Epicor Software Corporation from 2008 until May 2010 and previously as a director of Plumtree Software, Inc. and AvantGo, Inc. Mr. Richardson holds a B.A. in Finance and Accounting from Lewis and Clark College, an M.B.A. from the University of Portland, and a J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School.
William W. Lattin
William W. Lattin has served as a director since 2001 and is Chairman of the Board. Dr. Lattin spent his career in the semiconductor and electronic design automation industries. Since 2002, Dr. Lattin has served as the President of Lattin Enterprises, a firm that invests in development-stage technology companies. Prior to starting Lattin Enterprises, Dr. Lattin served in various executive roles at a number of technology companies, including as Executive Vice President and a director of Synopsys., Inc., a supplier of electronic design automation software to the global semiconductor industry, President and Chief Executive Officer of Logic Modeling Systems Inc. (LMSI), which was acquired by Synopsys in 1994, and as Vice President and General Manager of the Systems Group at Intel Corporation. Dr. Lattin began his career with Motorola Semiconductor Company. Dr. Lattin currently serves on the board of directors of RadiSys Corporation, a developer of embedded systems, and FEI Company, a diversified scientific instruments company. Dr. Lattin formerly served on the boards of Adexa, a supplier of business oriented computer software, and Merix Corporation, which was acquired by Viasystems Group, Inc. Dr. Lattin holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University. In addition, Dr. Lattin holds seven patents, is a founding member of VHDL International, an organization that promotes VHDL hardware description language, and is a senior member of IEEE, a professional organization for the advancement of technology.
Jim B. Johnson
President and Chief Executive Officer
James B. Johnson has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director since he joined our company in 2004. Prior to joining us, Mr. Johnson spent 27 years at Intel Corporation, where he served as Vice President of the Internet Service Operation and Director of Marketing for the Internet and Communications Group. He also co-founded and served as General Manager of Intel’s PC Enhancement Division, its retail products group. Mr. Johnson holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkley and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
