BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Alien is served by a Board of Directors made up of thought leaders in the development and adoption of RFID, electronics manufacturing and supply-chain technologies.
 Duane
Zitzner |
Mark
W. Perry |
| George
W. Everhart |
Keith
G. Daubenspeck |
| Ken
Ehrhart |
Paul Hsiao |
| C.
Scott Hartz |
Prior to his retirement, Duane Zitzner was Executive Vice President of the Personal Systems Group, HP, leading the organization responsible for the development and manufacturing of HP's business and consumer clients which include desktop and notebook PCs, handheld products, personal storage appliances, as well as workstations. In addition, he drove the company's combined commercial and enterprise channel partners' team, managing HP's close relationships with its distributors and resellers. His organization had co-responsibility for the Digital Entertainment initiative within HP's consumer business.
Previously, Zitzner served as president of HP's Computing Systems organization with the responsibility for computer products and enterprise systems. In that role, he helped elevate HP's enterprise solutions with the introduction of the Superdome high-end server.
Zitzner was appointed an HP Vice President by the HP Board of Directors in 1996 and held that position until his retirement. He is a retired officer of Hewlett-Packard Company.
Zitzner joined HP in 1989 as a manager in the Roseville Networks Division in California. Before joining HP, Zitzner held various management and technical jobs in software and architecture at IBM (International Business Machines). Previous to that he was a programmer at Univac.
Zitzner was born in Viroqua, Wisconsin. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and did graduate studies in computer science at the University of Minnesota. Zitzner serves on the boards of Entone and Firetide, is an advisor to Datacatch, and is a business advisor to the National ICT of Australia.
George W. Everhart joined Alien in January 2007 as CEO. Mr. Everhart has over 25 years of executive leadership experience with specific expertise in leading high growth phases of industry leading technology companies. Everhart has held CEO and sales and marketing executive positions with both small startup companies in emerging markets, and large multinational companies, experiencing a rapid pace of growth. He has extensive experience in global markets as well as the domestic U.S. market.
Everhart recently held CEO positions with early stage startup companies, SealedMedia and Onesecure, where he led successful company funding and expansion and established both companies as recognized leaders in their markets. Previously, Everhart was Sr.VP, Worldwide Sales & Service for 3COM Corporation, managing the Americas, Asia/Pacific, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) business activities as well as the 1,000 person global service organization. Prior, Everhart was President & CEO, Fujitsu PC Corporation, where he led the company’s market entry and rapid growth in the notebook PC business. Everhart also held a series of executive leadership positions with Apple Computer during the company’s fast growth years, 1987-1996, including VP US Sales, VP & GM PC Business Division, and VP Business & Government Sales. Everhart’s early career included marketing, sales, and business management positions with The Braegen Corporation and Memorex Corporation.
Mr. Everhart has been active in industry, government, and education associations as well holding both board and advisory positions. He was a member of the “Highway One Committee” to assist in the automation of Congress. He currently is a member of the Board of Fellows at Santa Clara University.
Mr. Everhart holds a Bachelors degree in Psychology, and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University.
Mr. Ehrhart is a General Partner at SunBridge Partners, established in 2004 as the US venture capital affiliate of SunBridge Corporation, a Tokyo-based venture capital and professional services firm. Mr. Ehrhart has also served as a General Partner at Equitek Capital, which he co-founded in 2000. Previously, Mr. Ehrhart was the Director of Research for the Gilder Technology Report, a technology investment newsletter published by Forbes; ran a technology consulting and research practice; and has extensive experience in the areas of electronic and physical security systems and services. Mr. Ehrhart graduated with honors in two Bachelors degree programs at UC Berkeley.
C. Scott Hartz is recognized as a pioneer in leading transformational business solutions for Fortune 500 global enterprises. His 32-year career in management consulting with Price Waterhouse, and Price Waterhouse Coopers spans experience with the organizations' client base of over 70% of the Fortune Global 500 enterprises on a worldwide basis as well as numerous smaller business organizations and governmental units throughout the world.
Mr. Hartz is a managing director of Spire Capital Group LLC, where he focuses on the commercialization of early-stage technologies from universities, government and private research institutions. From 1995 to 2002, while Global CEO of PwC Consulting, Hartz led the company's growth to a $6.0 billion enterprise with a global leadership position serving multi-national companies in corporate transformation, e-business and e-markets, supply chain services, CRM, and enterprise resource planning. In 1999 and 2000, he was named one of Consulting Magazine's top-10 most influential consultants.
Hartz serves on the Board of Directors of Erie Indemnity Company. He also serves on The Wharton School Graduate Board and Lehigh University Business School Advisory Board. Mr. Hartz holds a B.S. degree in Economics from Lehigh University and an MBA degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Perry joined New Enterprise Associates (NEA) as a Consultant in 1995 and became a General Partner in 1996. Mark focuses on information technology investments. Present NEA portfolio companies include Alien Technology, Glacier Bay, Interlace Systems, Leapstone Systems, NewPath Ventures LLC, newScale, ProStor Systems, TestMart, Think3 and TiVo. Previous board memberships include among others, Growth Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), Hyperion Solutions (NASDAQ: HYSL), iManage (acquired by Interwoven), Magma Design Automation (NASDAQ: LAVA), Silicon Graphics (NASDAQ: SGI), Silicon Spice (acquired by Broadcom), Trading Dynamics (acquired by Ariba). From April 1994 to December 1995, Mark served as President and Chief Executive Officer and then as Chairman of Viewstar Corporation. From 1985 to 1994, he was an executive with Silicon Graphics, Vice Chairman (1992-1994) responsible for worldwide field operations, Executive Vice President (1988-1991) responsible for the product divisions, and Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer (1985-1987). Prior to this, Mark was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Sonoma Vineyards and a partner at Arthur Young & Company. He is a Certified Public Accountant in California. Mark received a Masters in Business Administration (with distinction) from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (cum laude) from Amherst College. He is also a member of the board of KQED, the public broadcasting station for Northern California.
Keith G. Daubenspeck, Director
Advanced Equities Financial Corp. (AEI Chairman and Co-founder) Mr. Daubenspeck has had an eventful 22-year career in the securities industry. He was the architect behind three of the largest retail brokerage businesses in Chicago during his tenure at Lehman Bros., Oppenheimer and Bear Stearns. In the mid-1990's he co-founded Madison Securities, one of the first firms to specialize in technology private placements.
In 1999 Mr. Daubenspeck founded Advanced Equities, Inc (AEI). He served
as Chairman and CEO from 1999 until 2003, when he assumed the role of Executive
Chairman. Among his numerous responsibilities for the overall operation
and strategy of the firm, he serves as the head of investment banking and
oversees the company's many important VC relationships. He also sits on
the Board of Directors for several of AEI's portfolio companies, including
Alien Technologies, Motricity, and Metric Stream. In addition, Mr. Daubenspeck
is a partner or manager of numerous LLC's, managing over one billion dollars
of investments in technology
companies.
In his spare time, Keith is an avid Chicago sports fan and golfing enthusiast, and is a member of the renowned Medinah Country Club. Among his many outside interests, he is a serious student of history with a special knowledge of and affinity for the Civil War Era.
Paul joined NEA in 2003 and is a partner in NEA’s Menlo Park office. He focuses on wireless technology, Asian, and renewable energy investments. Paul's board memberships include Alien Technology, Boingo Wireless, DreamFactory, Jentro Technologies, and Motion Computing. He is also actively involved with Audience, BCD Semi, Deeya Energy, HelioVolt, Illumitex, Serious Materials, Solfocus, Spreadtrum (NASDAQ: SPRD), and Telegent Systems. At NEA, he has worked on the following investments: 3jam, Actions Semiconductor (NASDAQ: ACTS), Atheros (NASDAQ: ATHR), Cassatt (acquired by CA), Decru (acquired by NetApp), FineGround Networks (acquired by Cisco), Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), Interlace Systems (acquired by Oracle), Luminary Micro (acquired by Texas Instruments), Salesforce.com (NASDAQ: CRM), SMIC (NYSE: SMI), UltraDNS (acquired by Neustar), and WholeSecurity (acquired by Symantec). Prior to NEA, Paul co-founded Mazu Networks (acquired by Riverbed Technology, NASDAQ: RVBD). He began his career at Medtronic and McKinsey. Paul received his MBA from Harvard and a bachelor's degree in engineering from MIT.