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Board of Directors
William B. Smith
Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
William B. Smith has been a member of our Board of Directors since November 5, 2010 and the Non-Executive Chairman since January 20, 2011 and Executive Chairman and President since May 23, 2012. Mr. Smith is the Founder and has been the Chief Executive Officer of Smith Asset Management, Inc. since 1997. Mr. Smith has also been the President and Chief Executive Officer since 2004 of SAM Advisors, LLC, a money management firm spun off from Smith Asset Management, Inc., specializing in distressed public debt and equities trading at discounts to intrinsic value, as well as special situation investments. In addition, Mr. Smith is the founder and has been the Managing Member of SAM Capital Partners, LLC, the General Partner of SAM Special Opportunities Fund, LP (our largest stockholder) since 2009.
As the Chairman and our company’s largest stockholder (through entities controlled by him), Mr. Smith leads the board and guides the company. Mr. Smith brings a deep background in technology companies through his portfolio investments, and extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions.
John J. Boyle III
Director
John J. Boyle III was elected to our board of directors in September 2011. Mr. Boyle was the President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Arbor Networks Inc., a network security company, from September 2005 to January 2010. Mr. Boyle was responsible for directing the progression of Arbor Networks into a well-regarded thought-leader on network security issues, and drove the company’s acquisition and integration of Ellacoya Networks, formerly a leading provider of deep packet inspection solutions. Mr. Boyle was a director from July 1999 to 2004 and lead director from 2004 to 2007 of eFunds Corp., a payment services company. Mr. Boyle was also the Chief Executive Officer of Saville Systems, Inc., a provider of customer care and billing solutions to the telecommunications and energy industries, from September 1994 and became Chairman of the Board in 1998 until the company was sold to ADC Telecommunications, Inc. in December 1999. He remained on the board of ADC Telecommunications, Inc. until it was sold in December 2010. Mr. Boyle received a B.S. degree in business administration from Northeastern University.
Mr. Boyle’s more than 20 years of high-tech experience, including scaling venture capital-funded start-ups through exits including initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions, makes him well qualified as a member of our board.
Paul D. Fletcher
Director
Paul D. Fletcher was elected to our board of directors in September 2011. He is currently the Chief Financial Officer at Presidio, Inc., a privately-held high-end IT integration and managed networks services company, since August 2007. Previously, he served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Trex Company, from July 2003 to August 2007. He was Vice President of Finance of that company from October 2001 through July 2003, and of TREX Company, LLC from October 2001 through December 2002. From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Fletcher served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for AMX Corporation, an advanced control system technology company. From 1996 to 2000, he served as Vice President and Treasurer for Excel Communications Inc., a telecommunications company. From 1987 to 1996, he served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer for Lomas Financial Corporation, a financial services company. Mr. Fletcher received his B.A. degree in economics and management from Albion College and an M.B.A. degree in finance and management policy from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Mr. Fletcher demonstrates extensive knowledge of complex accounting, financial reporting and operational issues highly relevant to our business, making him well qualified as a member of our board.
Charles Hunt, Ph.D.
Director
Charles Hunt, Ph.D. was elected to our board of directors in October 2006. Dr. Hunt holds B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University. He has been at the University of California at Davis since 1986, where he is presently a Professor with multiple appointments and a visiting Professor of Electronics in the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona. Dr. Hunt is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and is author or co-author of more than 120 refereed publications and eight books, and holds 12 patents. From 1997 to 2004, he served as editor of the journal, Solid-State Electronics.
Dr. Hunt brings 25 years of scientific knowledge in technology product development in the electronic and electrical industries, making his insights invaluable to the board.
John E. Rehfeld
Director
John E. Rehfeld was elected to our board of directors in September 2011. Mr. Rehfeld is currently on the board of directors of Lantronix, Inc., a provider of secure communication technologies (since May 2010), Local.com Corporation, a local search engine provider (since 2005), and Enkeboll Design, a privately-held company (since January 2006). Mr. Rehfeld was previously a director of ADC Telecommunications, Inc., a provider of network infrastructure solutions (from September 2004 to December 2010, when it was sold), Overtone, a privately-held company that monitors company-hosted online forums and feedback platforms (from 2002 to April 2011, when it was sold), and Primal Solutions, Inc., a managed software solutions provider (from December 2008 to June 2009). Mr. Rehfeld most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Spruce Technologies, Inc., a DVD authoring software company, during 2001. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Rehfeld served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ProShot Golf, Inc. He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Proxima Corporation from 1995 to 1997, and as President and Chief Executive Officer of ETAK, Inc. from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Rehfeld is the Chairman Emeritus of the Forum of Corporate Directors in Orange County, California.
Mr. Rehfeld’s over 30 years of executive experience in high growth industries, including prior experience as a Chief Executive Officer of a number of companies; prior and current experience serving as a director of a number of public and private companies, and a distinguished educational background, including an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, as well as his current positions as adjunct professor of marketing and strategy for the Executive M.B.A. Programs at Pepperdine University (since 1998) and the University of San Diego (since 2010), provide him with the skills and qualifications to serve on our board of directors.
W. Duncan Troy
Director
Duncan Troy was elected to our board of directors in February 2004, and served as our Chairman of the Board from May 2004 to July 2008, and from July 2010 to January 2011. Mr. Troy was a former Telegen advisory board member and is a current director of the following U.K. based companies: Private Equity III Limited, a U.K. investment vehicle (from September 1996 to date) and SMS Lottome Limited, a U.K. cell phone lottery and gaming company (from March 2004 to date).
Mr. Troy’s nearly 30 years of service as a board member and investor in many early-stage and growth companies make him well qualified as a member of our board.
Mark W. Weber
Director
Mark W. Weber was elected to our board of directors in June 2005. Mr. Weber has been a marketing consultant, strategic planner and senior business advisor to financial services companies, technology companies and emerging growth companies since 1988. Mr. Weber has been involved in raising private capital and launching start up, emerging growth technology companies and new banks over the past 20 years. Since 1988, he has been the President of Weber Marketing Group, the 12th largest marketing agency in Washington State and a national provider of marketing consulting and branding services to financial services and technology companies across the United States. Mr. Weber was a founder and board member of Pacifica Bank from 1998 to 2005. Pacifica Bank was a SEC-registered business bank sold in 2005 to United Bank California. Mr. Weber also served as chairman of the board’s compensation committee at Pacifica from 2002 to 2005. Mr. Weber served as an advisory board member of several technology and emerging growth companies between 1990 and 2001. He has been on the Board of Trustees of the Noemi Fund, part of Agros International, since 2003.
Mr. Weber’s experience in launching, marketing and branding technology and emerging growth companies make him well qualified to be a member of our board.