| Shane Robison Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President | |
| Shane Robison has served as our Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President since May 2013, and he has served as a director of Fusion-io since December 2011. Mr. Robison served as Chief Strategy & Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Hewlett-Packard Company from May 2002 to November 2011. From 2000 to May 2002, Mr. Robison served as Senior Vice President, Technology and Chief Technology Officer of Strategy and Technology of Compaq Computer Corporation. Prior to joining Compaq, Mr. Robison served as the President of Internet Technology and Development at AT&T Labs. Prior to AT&T Labs, Mr. Robison was Executive Vice President, Research and Development, and then served as President of the Design Productivity Group at Cadence Design Systems. Mr. Robison also spent seven years at Apple Inc., where he held a series of executive-level positions, leaving the company as Vice President and General Manager of the Personal interactive Electronics Division. Mr. Robison’s experience includes work at Schlumberger’s research groups in Silicon Valley, at Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation and consulting for the University of Utah in the area of database systems architecture. Mr. Robison also serves as a director of Altera Corporation. Mr. Robison holds a B.S. and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Utah. | |
| Dennis P. Wolf Chief Financial Officer | |
| Dennis P. Wolf has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President since October 2010, as our Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President from March 2010 to October 2010, and as our Chief Financial Officer from November 2009 to March 2010. From January 2009 to April 2009, Mr. Wolf served as interim chief executive officer and chief financial officer of Finjan Software, Inc., a provider of web security solutions. From March 2005 to June 2008, Mr. Wolf served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of MySQL AB, an open source database software company. Prior to MySQL, Mr. Wolf held financial management positions for public high technology companies, including Apple Computer, Inc., Centigram Communications, Inc., Credence Systems Corporation, Omnicell, Inc., Redback Networks Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mr. Wolf currently serves as a director of Codexis Inc. and Exponential Interactive, Inc., and is the chair of the audit committees of these companies, and has been a director and chair of the audit committee for other publicly and privately held companies including Quantum Corporation, BigBand Networks, Inc., Registry Magic, Inc., Avanex Corporation, Komag, Inc. and Vitria Technology, Inc. He holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. from the University of Denver. | |
| Lance L. Smith Chief Operating Officer | |
| Lance L. Smith has served as our Chief Operating Officer since April 2010, as our Executive Vice President since October 2010, as our Senior Vice President of Engineering from September 2009 to October 2010, and as our Senior Vice President of Product Management and Marketing from May 2008 to September 2009. From January 2003 to May 2008, Mr. Smith served as vice president and general manager of RMI Corporation, a semiconductor company. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Smith served as senior vice president, business development of Raza Foundries, Inc., a broadband networking and communications investment company, and served in various interim executive roles at Pacific Broadband Communications, Inc., Acirro, Inc. and Omnishift Technologies Inc. He also served as the director of commercial segment marketing and director of technical marketing for the computational products group of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., the x86 microprocessor and video card maker, and had management roles at technology companies NexGen, Inc. and Chips and Technologies, Inc. Mr. Smith holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University. | |
| Stephen G. Wozniak Chief Scientist | |
| Stephen G. Wozniak has served as our Chief Scientist since December 2008. From 1971 to 1976, Mr. Wozniak held engineering positions within HP. In 1976, Mr. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer, Inc., now Apple Inc. In 1985, Mr. Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Technology, for his role in the development and introduction of the personal computer. After leaving Apple in 1985, Mr. Wozniak was involved in various business and philanthropic ventures, focusing primarily on computer capabilities in schools, stressing hands-on learning and encouraging creativity for students. In 2000, Mr. Wozniak was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment. He also co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was a founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. Mr. Wozniak holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. | |
| James L. Dawson Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales | |
| James L. Dawson has served as our Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales since October 2010, and as our Senior Vice President of Sales from April 2009 to October 2010. From 2004 to April 2009, Mr. Dawson served as vice president of worldwide sales of 3PAR Inc., a storage solutions company. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Dawson served as vice president, strategic sales and business development of Neoscale Systems, Inc., an enterprise storage security company. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Dawson served as vice president of worldwide sales for Scale Eight, Inc., a storage solutions company. From 1987 to 2000, Mr. Dawson served in various positions with Data General Corporation, a supplier of storage and enterprise computing solutions, most recently as vice president of EMEA and Asia Pacific for its CLARiiON Storage Division. Mr. Dawson holds a B.A. in Economics from Weber State University. | |
| Shawn J. Lindquist Chief Legal Officer | |
| Shawn J. Lindquist has served as our Chief Legal Officer, Executive Vice President and Secretary since October 2010, and as our Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President and Secretary from February 2010 to October 2010. From 2005 to January 2010, Mr. Lindquist served as chief legal officer, senior vice president and secretary of Omniture, Inc., an online marketing and web analytics company, through the completion and integration of the merger of Omniture with Adobe Systems Incorporated. Mr. Lindquist was a corporate and securities attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. from 2001 to 2005 and from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Lindquist has also served as in-house corporate and mergers and acquisitions counsel for Novell, Inc., and as vice president and general counsel of a privately held, venture-backed company. Mr. Lindquist is also an adjunct professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. Mr. Lindquist holds a B.S. in Business Management-Finance and a J.D. from Brigham Young University. | |
| Dr. Pankaj Mehra Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President | |
| Dr. Pankaj Mehra has served as our Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President since April 2013. From August 2010 through April 2013, Mr. Mehra served as founder and Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Whodini, Inc., an enterprise software company. From January 2008 to August 2010, Dr. Mehra served as Chief Scientist of HP Labs Russia at the Hewlett-Packard Company. Dr. Mehra also previously served as a Distinguished Technologist at HP Labs (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories) and a Distinguished Technologist (Information Services), HP StorageWorks. Dr. Mehra has co-authored three books, coordinated industry participation in the Stanford University led Collaborative Data Management Initiative, and served on the program committee of International Semantic Web Conference and on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing magazine. Dr. Mehra holds a B. Tech. degree from IIT Delhi and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. | |
| Richard W. Boberg Executive Vice President, Strategic Business Development and General Manager of Caching Solutions | |
| Richard W. Boberg has served as our Executive Vice President, Strategic Business Development and General Manager of Caching Solutions since August 2012, and prior to that, Mr. Boberg served as our Executive Vice President, Corporate Business Development since April 2012 and our Executive Vice President and General Manager of Virtualization Solutions since joining the company following the completion of our acquisition of IO Turbine, Inc. in August 2011. Mr. Boberg was one of the co-founders of IO Turbine. From IO Turbine’s inception in December 2009 until August 2011, Mr. Boberg served as the president and chief executive officer and a director of IO Turbine. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Boberg served as vice president of InnovationQ, a nonprofit organization that he co-founded, which focused on working with California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. Mr. Boberg was the sixth employee at NetApp, Inc., a leading provider of storage and data management solutions, and during his 12 years with NetApp from 1993 to 2005, he held executive positions in marketing, corporate development, and engineering, directed product management, strategic marketing, mergers and acquisitions, several software engineering groups, and strategic alliances and business development. Mr. Boberg has also held engineering and engineering management positions at several other technology companies, including Intel Corporation. Mr. Boberg holds a B.S. in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | |
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