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Mr. Meyercord serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Extreme. He joined our Board of Directors as an independent director in October 2009 and has served as Chairman since March 2011. Prior to assuming an operating role at Extreme, Mr. Meyercord was Chief Executive Officer and Director at Critical Alert Systems, LLC, a software-driven, healthcare information technology company, that he co-founded in July of 2010. Previously, Mr. Meyercord served as CEO, President and Director of both Cavalier Telephone & TV, a privately held voice, video and data services company with an extensive fiber network; and Talk America, Inc., a publicly traded company that provided phone and internet services to consumers and small businesses throughout the U.S. Mr. Meyercord was also a Vice President in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup). He previously served on the board of Tollgrade Communications, Inc.

Growth focused Executive. All things operational. Passionate about culture, inclusion and diversity. Pam is the Chief Executive Officer at Imperva, the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside. Pam was previously Chief Operating Officer at Infor - the world's third largest enterprise software company - headquartered in New York City, providing world-class solutions for specific industries and micro-verticals, serving over 70,000 customers in 125 countries with 18,000 employees across the globe. Prior to Infor, Pam held multiple leadership positions at Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL) and prior to that at Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen. She is on the Board of Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) and is an investor and advisor to FINTECH start-ups. Pam has 25+ years’ experience spanning finance, field sales, revenue management, cloud product development & architecture, professional services, industry specialization (e.g. Healthcare, Discrete & Process Manufacturing, Services Industries, Hospitality, Public Sector), company turnarounds, setting new high-growth strategy, M&A, business development plus deep operational experience in running global organizations. Public and private company experience. Extensive international experience having held a variety of roles in Europe, Middle East, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Rami Rahim is Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Rahim was appointed CEO in November 2014. Rahim began his Juniper career in early 1997, as employee No. 32, and worked as an engineer on Juniper's first breakthrough product, the M40 core router. Rahim has progressed through a series of technical and leadership roles at Juniper, applying his engineering acumen to the design and development of Juniper's industry-leading product portfolio. He most recently served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Juniper Development and Innovation (JDI) organization, overseeing the company's entire product and technology portfolio. His responsibilities included driving strategy, development and business growth for routing, switching, security, silicon technology, and the Junos operating system. Other leadership positions held over the years include: Executive Vice President and General Manager of Platform Systems Division for routing and switching, Senior Vice President of the Edge and Aggregation Business Unit (EABU), and Vice President and General Manager of EABU. Rahim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He completed an intensive six-week executive program at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Rahim holds 17 U.S. Patents in networking technologies and is a member of IEEE.

Aart J. de Geus is a co-founder of Synopsys, Inc., a provider of electronic design automation software and related services for semiconductor design companies, and currently serves as its Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Chief Executive Officer. Since 1986, Dr. de Geus has held various positions at Synopsys, including President, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Senior Vice President of Marketing, and has served as a member of its board of directors. From 1982 to 1986, Dr. de Geus was employed by the General Electric Company, a global infrastructure, finance and media company, where he was the Manager of the Advanced Computer-Aided Engineering Group. Dr. de Geus joined the Applied Materials board of directors in 2007.

Mikkel Svane is an author and entrepreneur. He wrote a book called "Startupland" and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Zendesk, which he cofounded in 2007. Svane was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1971.

A seasoned networking and software industry executive with a track record of building large businesses, Jesper is the leader of Infoblox, responsible for the company’s continuing growth and innovation. Prior to joining Infoblox in December 2014, he served in a number of roles at Cisco Systems, including senior vice president for network management. Previously, he held senior management positions at Oracle, PeopleSoft, Pivotal Software and Computer Resources International.

Senior executive with consistent record driving revenue growth and operational performance improvement. Unique blend of general management, cutting edge technology development, business development and leading global organizations.Specialties: Cloud/SaaS, Product Management, Managing technical teams, Business Development, New Venture Formulation, and leading large teams.

Career summary: Ramin is an experienced strategic & operating leader of both small & large organizations, has a strong track record of developing innovative products in both emerging and mature markets and has successfully led & integrated multiple technology tuck-ins and company acquisitions. With 20 years of industry experience he has proven track record for incubating & growing significant new & emerging businesses w/in leading companies. He also serves on the boards of various startup companies and "has quickly become known as a visionary product leader in the valley and the industry".Ramin is currently the President & CEO of Sumo Logic, an industry leading SaaS based cloud analytics company backed by great VC's and has an impressive list of customers and partners. Previously, Ramin was the Sr. Vice President & GM at VMware where he developed the product and business strategy & led the fastest growing business. Previously, Ramin held multiple Executive roles w/ leading companies such as HP Software, Mercury Software, Tibco Software, iPlanet Software, AOL & Netscape. Employment Summary:Senior Vice President & General, Cloud Management Business UnitRamin was responsible for the developing VMware's industry leading Cloud Mgmt Business unit.Vice President of Products and Strategy, HP SoftwareRamin was responsible for ~$1.6B software business and his organization/business consisted of the Openview, Mercury, Opsware, Peregrine and other software suite of products. Director of Products & Solutions - Tibco SoftwareResponsible for all product marketing, management and industry/solutions marketing for three product lines.Product Line Marketing Manager - iPlanet Software (AOL/SUN Alliance) Responsible for product marketing of the e-commerce suite of products.Product Line Marketing Manager - Netscape CommunicationsResponsible for product marketing of the e-commerce suite of products