Board of Directors

Mr. Hovsepian has been the Chairman of the Board since May 2019 and was the Lead Independent Director of the Board from October 2014 through April 2019 and the non-executive Chairman from 2014 until 2016. Mr. Hovsepian has been an Executive Partner at Flagship Pioneering, Inc., a venture capital firm focused on healthcare, since October 2018. Mr. Hovsepian was Chief Executive Officer of Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications software and services company, from January to April 2017. Mr. Hovsepian served as Chief Executive Officer of Intralinks Holdings, Inc., a global provider of services and software, from December 2011 to January 2017. Mr. Hovsepian joined Novell, Inc., a software company, in 2003 and was its Chief Executive Officer, from 2005 to 2011. Prior to Novell, from 2000 to 2003, Mr. Hovsepian was in the venture capital industry. He started his career at IBM and served in several executive positions over approximately 16 years. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of two private companies, ECi Software Solutions and Skillsoft, an educational technology company, where he is also the Executive Chairman.

Mr. Hovsepian serves on the Board of Directors of Pegasystems Inc., a cloud software company. Mr. Hovsepian previously served as a member of the Board of Directors and as non-executive chairman for ANN Inc., a women’s clothing retailer.

Member of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Chair of the Strategic Partnerships and Transactions Committee

Dr. Gopal has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President since January 2017. From August 2016 to December 2016, he served as our President and Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Gopal was appointed an independent director of the Board in 2011 and served in that capacity until his employment by the Company in August 2016. From April 2013 to August 2016, Dr. Gopal was an operating partner at Silver Lake, a leading private equity technology investor. His employment at Silver Lake included a secondment as interim President and Chief Operating Officer at Symantec Corporation. From 2011 until 2013, he was Senior Vice President at Hewlett Packard. Dr. Gopal was Executive Vice President at CA Technologies from 2006 until 2011. From 2004 to 2006, he worked at Symantec Corporation, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Earlier, Dr. Gopal served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of ReefEdge Networks, a company he co-founded in 2000. He worked at IBM from 1991 to 2000, initially at IBM Research and later in IBM’s Software Group.

Dr. Gopal currently serves on the Board of Directors of Citrix Systems, Inc., a multinational software company.

Ms. Dorchak has served as an independent director at Ansys since July 2018. Ms. Dorchak spent over thirty years in operating roles in the technology industry starting with IBM where she held executive positions including General Manager PC Direct. She went on to be Chairman and CEO at Value America, an e-retailer, before joining Intel Corporation in 2001 as Vice President and COO Intel Communications Group. Ms. Dorchak went on to be VP and General Manager Intel Broadband Products Group and VP and General Manager Intel Consumer Electronics Group. After Intel, she was CEO of Intrinsyc Software from August 2006 to November 2008 and then CEO of VirtualLogix from January 2009 until September 2010, when it was acquired by Red Bend Software. Prior to her retirement, her most recent operating role was EVP and GM Global Business with Spansion, Inc., a flash memory manufacturer, from April 2012 to June 2013.

Ms. Dorchak currently serves as a director of Viavi Solutions Inc., a provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions, and CREE, Inc., an innovator of semiconductor projects for power and radio-frequency applications and lighting-class LED products. She was previously a director of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Energy Focus Inc. and Quantenna Communications.

Member of the Compensation Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Member of the Strategic Partnerships and Transactions Committee

Dr. Gallimore has been the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering at the University of Michigan since 2016. He has been the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan since 2015. He has held various positions of increasing responsibility at the University of Michigan since joining the institution in 1992. Dr. Gallimore has served on several NASA and US Department of Defense boards and studies, including as a member of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics and was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 2019. Dr. Gallimore’s primary research interests include electric propulsion, plasma diagnostics and space plasma simulation. He has extensive design and testing experience with a number of electric propulsion devices.

Member of the Audit Committee

Ms. Scherer was Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Plantronics, Inc. (“Plantronics”), an audio communications equipment manufacturer from 1998 to 2012, and was Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to 1998. Prior to Plantronics, Ms. Scherer held various executive management positions spanning 11 years in the disk drive industry, was an associate with The Boston Consulting Group, and was a member of the corporate finance team at ARCO in Los Angeles.

Ms. Scherer serves on the Board of Directors of Netgear, Inc., a multinational computer networking company, and Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc., a developer and supplier of equipment for the semiconductor industry. She previously served as a director of Keithley Instruments, a publicly traded test and measurement company.

Chair of the Audit Committee

Mr. Calderoni has been the Chairman of Citrix Systems, Inc., a multinational software company (“Citrix”), since January 2019, and was the Executive Chairman of Citrix from July 2015 through December 2018. From October 2015 to January 2016, Mr. Calderoni served as the interim Chief Executive Officer and President of Citrix. Mr. Calderoni served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ariba, Inc., a cloud applications and business network company (“Ariba”), from October 2001 until it was acquired by SAP AG, a publicly traded software and IT services company, in October 2012, and then continued as Chief Executive Officer of Ariba following the acquisition until January 2014. Mr. Calderoni also served as a member of the global managing board at SAP AG between November 2012 and January 2014 and as President of SAP Cloud from June 2013 to January 2014. Prior to Ariba,Mr. Calderoni held senior finance roles at Apple and IBM and served as Chief Financial Officer of Avery Dennison Corporation, a publicly traded industrial materials company.

Mr. Calderoni is the Chairman of the Board of Citrix. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of KLA Corporation. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Juniper Networks, Inc. (2003-2019) and Ariba (2001-2012).

Member of the Strategic Partnerships and Transactions Committee
Member of the Audit Committee

Mr. Vijayaraghavan has been a partner at Bain & Company, Inc. (“Bain”), a leading management consulting firm, since 2001. He has held multiple senior roles with Bain, including his current position as Director and Head of the Asia-Pacific Technology Practice since 2019 and membership on the global partner promotion and compensation committee since 2015. Mr. Vijayaraghavan started his career with Bain in 1995 and is an expert and leader in Bain’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Telecommunications, Media and Technology practices. He has successfully led global client relationships in technology and telecommunications, and the establishment of Bain’s Asia-Pacific technology practice. His experience spans a broad range of technology markets (including software, hardware, semiconductors, and services) as well as mobile and fixed telecommunications operations across geographies in North America, Europe and Asia. He previously served as a member of the board of overseers for WGBH, a Boston-based public broadcaster, and as a member of the board of the Singapore Land Authority.

Member of the Strategic Partnerships and Transactions Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee

Mr. Frankola has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Cloudera, an enterprise data cloud company, since October 2012. From June 2010 to September 2012, Mr. Frankola served as Chief Financial Officer of Yodlee, Inc., a data aggregation and data analytics platform company. Prior to Yodlee, Mr. Frankola served as Chief Financial Officer of Ariba, Inc., a software and information technology services company. Mr. Frankola has held various senior positions in financial and business management at several companies, including IBM and Avery Dennison Corporation. Mr. Frankola previously served of the Board of Directors of ActivIDentity Corporation, a credentials management and authentication company.

Member of the Audit Committee