Advisors
Mike Braun - Advisor & Director
During his thirty-year career in the information technology industry, Mike Braun has been CEO of two Silicon Valley software companies and General Manager of four major businesses at IBM. He is currently CEO of the Interim CEO Network.
Most of Mike's experience has been working in businesses based on advanced technology in the early stage of market adoption or with businesses needing substantial restructuring around a new vision. Most recently, he returned to IBM in late 1998 to restructure its $3 billion Consumer Division and then ran the $3.5 billion Global Small Business Division until his retirement in August 2000. Mike was also a founder and VP of IBM's Multimedia Division in 1990 and started its Fireworks Partners venture fund in 1992. He also helped launch SNA in 1977 and the original IBM PC in 1981.
Mike was also CEO of Blaze Software, the leader in business rule automation software for applications with advanced personalization needs and the CEO of Kaleida Labs, the high profile multimedia joint venture of Apple and IBM from 1993 to 1995.
Ken Goldman - Advisor
Ken Goldman is an accomplished
executive with extensive financial, operational and
business management experience and a solid track record
of success. He is currently the CFO of Fortinet.
Previously, he served as senior vice president, finance
and administration, and CFO of Siebel Systems from
August 2000 until the close of Oracle Corporation's
acquisition in January 2006. Prior to that, he held CFO
positions at Excite@Home, Sybase, Inc., Cypress
Semiconductor and VLSI Technology. Additionally, his
experience includes board director, audit committee
chairman, and financial advisory roles at several
leading public and private technology companies. Ken
earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
from Cornell University in 1971 and his master's degree
in business administration from Harvard Business School
in 1974. He is a member and the former president of The
Financial Executive Institute, Santa Clara chapter, and
was formerly a member of the Financial Accounting
Standards Board Advisory Council (FASAC) from 2000 to
2004
Joe Cardenas - Advisor
Joe Cardenas was most currently the CIO of Salesforce.com where he was responsible for all system infrastructure and IT practices. He was also the EVP and CIO for Employers Direct Insurance Coporation working with them from startup to over $100m in 18 months. Before EDIC, he was the CIO for Autodesk and for Fremont General, a financial services company. Cardenas also spent four years at Oracle Corp. as vice president of information technology. At Oracle he was responsible for internal application development, data center, network operation centers and network security.
Pierluigi Zappacosta - Advisor
Mr. Zappacosta co-founded Logitech (Nasdaq:
LOGI), the leading maker of mice and other personal
interface products that enable people to work, play and
communicate in the digital world. At Logitech, he served
over a sixteen-year period first as President and CEO
and later as Vice-Chairman. He was instrumental in
taking the company public in Switzerland in 1988 and on
NASDAQ in 1997, raising over $60 million. By the time
Mr. Zappacosta left in 1998, sales of Logitech had risen
to over $400 million per year
Don Haderle - Advisor
Don Haderle is a pioneer of relational database and information management technology. From 1968 to 2005, he worked in Research & Development at IBM Corp. where he was responsible for over 50 patents and disclosures. As the technology leader for IBM's relational database, DB2, which debuted in the 1980s and serves most of the major corporations in the world today, Haderle is known as the "Father of DB2." In 1989 Haderle was appointed IBM Fellow, IBM's most prestigious position for technologists
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