Board of Directors
- Umang Gupta, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Keynote Systems, Inc.
- Jennifer Bolt, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Franklin Resources, Inc.
- David Cowan, Managing General Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
- Mohan Gyani, Retired President and Chief Executive Officer, AT&T Wireless Mobility Services
- Raymond L. Ocampo Jr., Retired Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Oracle Corporation. Currently, Mr. Ocampo is a consultant, private investor, and President and CEO of Samurai Surfer LLC.
- Dr. Deborah Rieman, Retired President and Chief Executive Officer, Check Point Software, now with U.S. Venture Partners
- Charles Boesenberg, Former Chairman and CEO, NetIQ
Umang Gupta has been chairman and chief executive officer of Keynote Systems (NASDAQ: KEYN), the worldwide leader in e-business performance management services, since 1997. In 1999, he took the business public. A well-known technology visionary and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Umang began his career in 1973 with IBM. Umang joined Oracle Corporation in 1981 where he wrote the first business plan for the company and served as Vice President and General Manager of the Microcomputer Products Division through 1984.He left Oracle to become Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Gupta Corporation, which he took public in 1993 (NASDAQ: GPTA). Gupta Corporation was responsible for ushering in the era of enterprise client/server computing by introducing many seminal innovations, including the world's first client/server relational database system for PC networks in 1988. Umang has also been an active investor and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-up companies, including serving on the Board of Trustees of Mosaix, a publicly held call-center systems company from 1997 to 1999 until its sale to Lucent Technologies.
Umang received his Bachelor of Technology degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur in 1971 and his M.B.A. from Kent State University in Ohio (USA) in 1972. In 1996, Umang received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for his outstanding contributions to Information Technology and entrepreneurial achievements. In addition to his professional activities, Umang serves on the board of the Peninsula Community Foundation, a San Mateo based public charity that builds investment and involvement in community. He is also an avid history buff and serves on the Board of the San Mateo Historical Association. In 2000, Umang was the honored recipient of the Asian Pacific Foundation Award for Civic Leadership and Philanthropy.
Jennifer Bolt has served as one of our directors since April 2004. She has been senior vice president and chief information officer of Franklin Resources, Inc, a financial services company, since May 2003. As CIO, Ms. Bolt has global responsibilities for software development and implementation, infrastructure/systems support and telecommunications. She also serves as chairman of Franklin Capital Corporation and Franklin Templeton Bank & Trust, and is a member of Franklin Resources, Inc.’s Executive Committee.
Ms. Bolt is a graduate of the American Banker’s Association’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and physical education from the University of California at Davis. She is a board member of Board Vantage Corporation. She has served as a member of the Volunteer Center of San Mateo's Board of Directors from 1993 to 2000, acting as president in 1994 and 1995, and served as a member of the San Mateo YMCA's Board of Directors from 1999 to 2002.
David Cowan has served as one of our directors since March 1998. He is general partner of Bessemer Venture Partners, a venture capital investment firm, which he joined in 1992. Mr. Cowan has led early stage investments in 42 technology startups, of which 19 have gone public and 14 have been acquired by public companies. His investments include Keynote, Ciena, Hotjobs, Blue Nile, and VeriSign, Inc, which he co-founded and chaired in 1995. Mr. Cowan holds an A.B. degree in mathematics and computer science and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University. He currently teaches computer science at the Keys School in Palo Alto, California.
Mohan Gyani has served as one of our directors since January 2002. He retired as senior advisor, office of the chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Wireless Mobility Services, a telecommunications company, in December 2004. From March 2000 to January 2003, Mr. Gyani served as president and chief executive officer and from January 2000 to March 2000 as chief financial officer of AT&T Wireless Mobility Services. From October 1999 to December 1999, Mr. Gyani served as president and chief financial officer of PeoplePC, Inc., a computer company. From June 1999 to September 1999, he served as the head of strategy and corporate development and a member of the board of directors of Vodafone AirTouch Plc, a mobile telecommunications network company. He served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of AirTouch, a telecommunications company, from September 1995 to June 1999, prior to its merger with Vodafone. Mr. Gyani is a member of the boards of directors of Safeway Inc., Epiphany Inc., and a private company. He holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. degree in business administration from San Francisco State University.
Raymond L. Ocampo Jr. has served as one of our directors since March 2004. Since April 2004, he has been president and chief executive officer of Samurai Surfer LLC, a consulting and investment company. In November 1996, Mr. Ocampo retired from Oracle Corporation where he had served in various senior and executive positions since 1986, most recently as senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary since September 1990. Mr. Ocampo is a member of the boards of directors of Intraware, Inc., CytoGenix, Inc., PMI Group, Inc., and VitalStream Holdings Inc. Since January 2000, Mr. Ocampo has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, which he co-founded in 1996. Mr. Ocampo holds a J.D. degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and an A.B. degree in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Deborah Rieman has served as one of our directors since January 2002. Since June 1999, she has managed a private investment fund and has also served as an entrepreneur-in-residence with U.S. Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, since August 1999. From July 1995 to June 1999, Dr. Rieman was the president and chief executive officer of Check Point Software Technologies, Inc., an Internet security software company. Prior to joining Check Point, Dr. Rieman held various executive and marketing positions with Adobe Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox Corp. Dr. Rieman also serves as a director of Arbinet Inc., Corning Inc., Kintera, Inc., and Tumbleweed Communications Inc. Dr. Rieman holds a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Columbia University and a B.A. degree in mathematics from Sarah Lawrence College.
Charles Boesenberg has served as one of our directors since September 2006. He was most recently chairman and CEO of NetIQ before it was acquired by Attachmate Corporation n June 2006. Prior to NetIQ, Boesenberg was president of Post PC Ventures, a management and investment group from March 2000 to December 2001. Boesenberg was president and CEO of Integrated Systems, Inc. (ISI), a provider of embedded systems software, from 1998 until ISI merged with Wind River Systems in February of 2000. Boesenberg joined ISI from Magellan, where he was CEO. From 1992 to 1994, Boesenberg was chairman, president and CEO of Central Point Software. Prior to Central Point, Boesenberg was president of MIPS Computer Systems. He has also held senior executive positions at IBM and Apple computer.
Boesenberg currently serves on the boards of directors of Callidus Software, Interwoven, Inc. and Rackable Systems. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the Rose Hullman Institute of Technology and an M.S. in business administration from Boston University.