ShotSpotter Leadership

Dr. Showen is SST, Inc.’s founder and patent holder on the technology. With over three decades of acoustic and geophysics research experience, it was Dr. Showen’s initial vision of helping police curb gunfire and urban crime that caused him first to conceive of ShotSpotter. Engineer, scientist, and teacher, Dr. Robert L. Showen attended San Jose State University, University of California at Berkeley, and Rice University. He obtained degrees in electrical engineering and space physics and won a fellowship to the Max Planck Institute. He has taught astronomy and physics at the University of Puerto Rico, performed experiments to heat the ionosphere at the world’s largest RADAR, participated in the development of over-the-horizon RADAR at SRI International, and studied the effects of lightning on the ionosphere.

Ralph Clark has been a member of the TriNet Board of Directors since March 2021. Mr. Clark has been the President and CEO of ShotSpotter, Inc. since 2010, taking the precision policing technology company public in 2017. Mr. Clark was previously CEO of GuardianEdge Technologies Inc. where he successfully led the company prior to its acquisition by Symantec. Earlier in his career he worked for IBM and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Clark received the 2019 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award for Northern California and was recognized as a 2019 Most Admired CEO by the San Francisco Business Times. He is a member of Harvard Business School’s California Advisory Board and is a trustee of the American Conservatory Theater. Mr. Clark holds a B.S. in economics from the University of the Pacific and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Dr. Showen is SST, Inc.’s founder and patent holder on the technology. With over three decades of acoustic and geophysics research experience, it was Dr. Showen’s initial vision of helping police curb gunfire and urban crime that caused him first to conceive of ShotSpotter. Engineer, scientist, and teacher, Dr. Robert L. Showen attended San Jose State University, University of California at Berkeley, and Rice University. He obtained degrees in electrical engineering and space physics and won a fellowship to the Max Planck Institute. He has taught astronomy and physics at the University of Puerto Rico, performed experiments to heat the ionosphere at the world’s largest RADAR, participated in the development of over-the-horizon RADAR at SRI International, and studied the effects of lightning on the ionosphere.

Ralph Clark has been a member of the TriNet Board of Directors since March 2021. Mr. Clark has been the President and CEO of ShotSpotter, Inc. since 2010, taking the precision policing technology company public in 2017. Mr. Clark was previously CEO of GuardianEdge Technologies Inc. where he successfully led the company prior to its acquisition by Symantec. Earlier in his career he worked for IBM and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Clark received the 2019 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award for Northern California and was recognized as a 2019 Most Admired CEO by the San Francisco Business Times. He is a member of Harvard Business School’s California Advisory Board and is a trustee of the American Conservatory Theater. Mr. Clark holds a B.S. in economics from the University of the Pacific and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.