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Code of Conduct and Ethics Audit Committee Compensation Committee Nominating Committee
Board of Directors
James F. Brear, President and
CEO, has served as a member of our Board of Directors since February
11, 2008. He is an industry veteran with more than 18 years of
experience in the networking industry, and leads Procera Networks to
further the company’s position as the leader in managing and monetizing
the world’s most complex networks. Most recently, Mr. Brear served as
vice president of worldwide sales and support for Bivio Networks, a
maker of deep packet inspection platform technology. Under his
leadership, the company rapidly expanded its worldwide sales presence,
resulting in sales to a number of global Tier 1 service providers,
government agencies, and Global OEMs. Prior to Bivio, Brear was vice
president of worldwide sales for Tasman Networks (acquired by Nortel),
a maker of converged WAN solutions for enterprise branch offices and
service providers. Earlier in his career, Mr. Brear was the vice
president of worldwide sales for Force10 Networks, where he was
responsible for taking the company from a pre-revenue start-up to the
industry leader in switch routers for high performance Gigabit and 10
Gigabit Ethernet. In addition, he spent five years with Cisco Systems
where he held senior management positions in Europe and North America
with responsibility for delivering more than $750M in annual revenues
selling into the world’s largest service providers. Previously, Brear
held a variety of sales management positions at both IBM and Sprint
Communications. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University
of California at Berkeley.
Paul J. Stich has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 15, 2010. Mr. Stich brings over 25 years of technology industry experience and leadership. Over the past ten years, Mr. Stich was the CEO at some of the leading venture capital and private equity backed firms. Recently, Mr. Stich was the president and CEO of Counterpane Internet Security, the leading managed security services firm which was acquired by British Telecom. Mr. Stich was also the co-founder, president and CEO of Groundswell, a premier internet consulting firm. Prior to starting Groundswell, he was the vice president of global services at IBM responsible for the telecommunications, media, entertainment, and utility industries for North and South America. Before that he was a partner with KPMG.
Scott McClendon has served as a
member of our Board of Directors since March 1, 2004. Mr. McClendon is
currently Chairman of the Board of Overland Storage Inc., a position he
has held since March 2001. He became Chairman after serving as
President and Chief Executive Officer from October 1991 to March 2001.
Prior to joining Overland Storage, Mr. McClendon was employed by
Hewlett Packard for over 32 years in various positions of engineering,
manufacturing, sales, marketing and general management. As a General
Manager Mr. McClendon ran the worldwide color printer and drafting
plotter businesses of Hewlett Packard. Mr. McClendon serves on the
boards of several public and private high technology companies. Mr.
McClendon holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from
Stanford University.
Tom Saponas has served as a member
of our Board of Directors since April 1, 2004 . Mr. Saponas was, until
his retirement in 2003, the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer for Agilent Technologies, the $8B spin-off of Hewlett Packard
Company in 1999. Mr. Saponas was responsible for establishing
Agilent’s long-term technology strategy and directly supervised its
central research lab. Prior to this, he was Vice President and General
Manager of the Electronic Instruments Group at Hewlett Packard where he
led eight divisions and 5 operations in the U.S., China, Korea,
Germany, France and Canada . In addition, during his time at HP he held
various positions in R&D, Marketing and General Management. He was
the General Manager of the Colorado Springs Division and also the Lakes
Stevens Division. In these roles he was responsible for HP’s
world-wide R&D, marketing and manufacturing of oscilloscopes, logic
analyzers and data acquisition systems and vector signal analyzers, as
well as having manufacturing responsibility for HP’s thin and thick
film microcircuits. In 1986 he took a one-year leave from HP when
awarded a White House Fellowship. He served as a Special Assistant to
the Secretary of the Navy and was awarded the Superior Civil Servant
for a major cost-saving initiative. He currently serves on the
Visiting Committee for Advanced Technology which reports to the
Secretary of Commerce. Mr. Saponas has a B.S. degree in Computer
Science and Electrical Engineering and an M.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Colorado .
Staffan E.S. Hillberg
has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 24,
2007. Mr. Hillberg is currently the CEO of Scandinavian Financial
Management AB, a private equity group based in Sweden. Earlier he held
the position of Managing Partner at the MVI Group, one of the largest
and oldest business angel networks in Europe with over 175 million Euro
invested in 75 companies internationally. While at MVI he oversaw a
number of successful exits, among them two IPOs in 2006 on the AIM
exchange in London as well as an IPO on the Swiss Stock Exchange. Prior
to MVI he ran a local venture capital company as well as co-founded and
was the CEO of the computer security company AppGate with operations in
Europe and the USA, raising US$20M from ABN Amro, Deutsche Telecom and
GE Equity. Before this he was responsible for the online activities of
the Bonnier Group, the largest media group in Scandinavia, spearheading
their internet activities and heading up their sponsorship of MIT Media
Lab. Earlier he was the QuickTime Product Manager at Apple in Cupertino
and before this Multimedia Evangelist with Apple Computer Europe in
Paris, France. He has extensive experience as an investor and business
angel, having been involved in the listing of two companies in Sweden,
Mirror Image and Digital Illusions, where the latter was acquire by
Electronic Arts. Mr. Hillberg attended the M.Sc. program at Chalmers
University of Technology in Sweden and has an MBA from INSEAD in France
Mary M. Losty
has served as a member of our Board of Directors since March, 2007. Ms.
Losty is currently the General Partner at Cornwall Asset Management,
LLC, a portfolio management firm located in Baltimore, Maryland, where
she is responsible for the firm's investment in numerous companies. Ms.
Losty's prior experience includes working as a portfolio manager at
Duggan & Associates and as an equity research analyst at M.
Kimelman & Company. Prior to that she worked as an investment
banker at Morgan Stanley and Co., and for several years prior to that
she was the top aide to James R. Schlesinger, a five-time U.S. cabinet
secretary. Ms. Losty received both her B.S. and Juris Doctorate degrees
from Georgetown University, the latter with magna cum laude
distinction. She is a member of the American Bar Association and a
commissioner for Cambridge, Maryland's Planning and Zoning Commission.
Ms. Losty also sits on the board of directors of the American Board of
the United Nations University for Peace, an institution which enjoys
the exclusive status of being sanctioned by all 192 member states of
the United Nations.
Our
executive officers are elected by the Board of Directors on an annual
basis and serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors, subject to
the terms of any employment agreements with us, until their successors
have been duly elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation
or removal. There are no family relationships between any directors and
executive officers. ADVISORY STAFF
In addition to this very seasoned
management team and board of directors, Procera Networks, Inc. utilizes
the services of a technical advisory staff with leading technologists
from hardware, software and product management companies located in the
San Francisco Bay area.
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