Thomas J. Kalinske
Vice Chairman
Thomas J. Kalinske has served as our Vice Chairman since July 2006. From February 2004 to July 2006, Mr. Kalinske served as our Chief Executive Officer and previously served in that same capacity from September 1997 to March 2002. He has served on our board of directors since September 1997 and was the Chairman of our board of directors from September 1997 to February 2004. From April 2007 to May 2008, Mr. Kalinske served as Chief Executive Officer of cFares, Inc., an online meta search company. From 1996 to February 2004, Mr. Kalinske served as the President of Knowledge Universe (now Mounte LLC), a private company focused on building leading companies in areas relating to education, technology and career management and the improvement of individual and corporate performance. From 1990 to 1996, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sega of America. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Matchbox Group from 1987 to 1990. Prior to that, he served as President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Mattel, Inc. Mr. Kalinske has served as Chair of the Toy Manufacturers Association of America and, in 1997, he was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame. Mr. Kalinske has served as a director on the board of directors of Blackboard Inc., a publicly held company that provides enterprise learning software applications, since April 2007, and is a member of its audit committee. He has also served on the board of directors and audit committee of Cambium Learning Group, Inc., a publicly held company that provides educational materials to schools for at risk and special need student populations, since February of 2010. Mr. Kalinske also serves as Executive Chairman of the board of directors of Moonshoot, a privately held developer of online English language learning games for non-English speaking children. Mr. Kalinske earned a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.B.A. from the University of Arizona. |
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William B. Chiasson
Chief Executive Officer and President
William B. Chiasson has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President, and has served as a member of our board of directors, since March 2010. He served as our Chief Financial Officer from November 2004 through February 2010. Before joining us, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Levi Strauss & Co., a marketer of apparel, from August 1998 to December 2003. From January 1988 to August 1998, Mr. Chiasson served in varying capacities with Kraft Foods, Inc., a division of Phillip Morris Companies and a manufacturer and seller of branded foods and beverages, most recently as Senior Vice President, Finance and Information Technology. From June 1979 to January 1988, Mr. Chiasson served in varying capacities with Baxter Healthcare, most recently as its Vice President and Controller for the Hospital Group. Mr. Chiasson received his B.A. from the University of Arizona and his M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. |
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Paul T. Marinelli
Vice President, Lawrence Investments, LLC
Paul T. Marinelli was appointed to our board of directors in March 2009. Mr. Marinelli has served as Vice President of Lawrence Investments, LLC, or Lawrence Investments, a private equity investment firm that is controlled by Lawrence J. Ellison, since May 2004. In March 2009, Mr. Marinelli was proposed for membership on our board of directors by Mollusk Holdings, a subsidiary of Lawrence Investments and the owner of shares representing a majority of our outstanding voting power. From September 1999 to May 2004, he held the position of Corporate Development Group Director at Cadence Design Systems, an electronic design automation software and services company, where he managed several dozen acquisitions and strategic investments. Prior to 1999, Mr. Marinelli held various financial roles at ricewaterhouseCoopers, AlliedSignal and EMCON. Mr. Marinelli earned a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. Mr. Marinelli has served as a member of our nominating and corporate governance committee since March 2009. |
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Stanley E. Maron
Independent Director
Stanley E. Maron was elected to our board of directors in September 1997. Since 1994, Mr. Maron has served as a senior partner in the law firm of Maron & Sandler, a Professional Corporation, which he co-founded. He specializes in corporate and tax law. Prior to forming Maron & Sandler, he was a senior partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, serving the firm from 1975 to 1994. Mr. Maron currently serves as a director of Heron International, a privately held European real estate development company, and also serves as an officer and director of privately held companies affiliated with Knowledge Learning Corporation, a for-profit provider of early child care learning. Mr. Maron earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Maron has served on our audit committee since July 2006, and on our compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees since May 1, 2008. |
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E. Stanton McKee, Jr.
Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee
E. Stanton McKee, Jr. was appointed to our board of directors in November 2003. From 1989 until his retirement in November 2002, Mr. McKee served as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Electronic Arts Inc., a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment. From 1982 to 1989, Mr. McKee was Chief Financial Officer of Digital Research, Inc, a privately held developer of operating systems, computer languages and applications. Mr. McKee also served in the consulting division of Arthur Andersen for seven years. Mr. McKee has served on the board of directors of ArcSight, Inc., a publicly held company that provides security and compliance management software and appliances to government and commercial entities, since February 2005; he is a member of its corporate governance committee and chairs its audit committee. Mr. McKee has served on numerous private company and joint venture boards and currently serves on the board of a private company. Mr. McKee earned a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. Mr. McKee has served as the Chair of audit committee since November 2003 and as a member of our compensation committee since July 2009. |
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David C. Nagel
Independent Director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee
David C. Nagel, Ph.D. was appointed to our board of directors in September 2005. From December 2001 until his retirement in May 2005, Dr. Nagel served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of PalmSource, Inc., a provider of operating system software platforms for smart mobile devices. From September 2001 to December 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Platform Solutions Group at Palm, Inc., a provider of mobile computing solutions. Prior to joining Palm, from April 1996 to September 2001, Dr. Nagel was Chief Technology Officer of AT&T Corp., a communications service provider, President of AT&T Labs, a corporate research and development unit of AT&T, and Chief Technology Officer of Concert, a partnership between AT&T and British Telecom. Dr. Nagel has served on the board of directors and compensation committee of each of Align Technology, Inc., a publicly held company that develops and sells orthodontics medical devices (since July 2009), Tessera Technologies, Inc., a publicly held company that develops semiconductor packaging technology (since May 2005), and Openwave Systems Inc., a publicly held company that develops software for mobile and broadband operators (since January 2008). Dr. Nagel earned a B.S., an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Nagel has served as a member of our compensation committee since February 2006 (and as the Chairman since November 2006). |
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Philip B. Simon
President, Lawrence Investments, LLC
Philip B. Simon was appointed to our board of directors in March 2009 and served as Presiding Director with the role of presiding over executive sessions of the board from March 2009 to March 2010. Mr. Simon is President of Lawrence Investments, a private equity investment firm that is controlled by Lawrence J. Ellison. In March 2009, Mr. Simon was proposed for membership on our board of directors by Mollusk Holdings, a subsidiary of Lawrence Investments and the owner of shares representing a majority of our outstanding voting power. For 16 years, prior to joining Lawrence Investments in 1997, Mr. Simon was partner in Howson & Simon LLP, a professional tax and accounting services firm. Mr. Simon serves on the board of directors of a number of privately held companies and is a member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Simon holds an A.B. from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. Mr. Simon has served as a member of our compensation committee since March 2009. |
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Caden Wang
Independent Director
Caden Wang was appointed to our board of directors in April 2005. From June 1999 until his retirement in December 2001, Mr. Wang served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of LVMH Selective Retailing Group, which included various international retail holdings such as DFS, Sephora and Miami Cruiseline Services. He also served as the Chief Financial Officer for DFS, Gump’s and Cost Plus. Since October 2003, Mr. Wang has served on the board of directors of bebe stores, inc., a publicly held company that designs, develops and produces women’s apparel and accessories, and chairs its audit committee, is a member of its nominating and corporate governance committee and chairs a special committee advising on executive equity matters. He earned a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Wang has served as a member of our audit committee since April 2005, as a member of our nominating and corporate governance committee since November 2006, and as a member of our strategy committee from April 2006 until it was dissolved in July 2007. |
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