| Ms Adena Friedman
| Ms. Friedman is Chief Financial Officer of Carlyle and has served in such capacity for Carlyle since March 2011. Prior to joining Carlyle in March 2011, Ms. Friedman was the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy for The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. In August 2009, Ms. Friedman assumed the role of CFO, responsible for all financial, tax, investor relations, enterprise risk management and investment matters. As head of Corporate Strategy from 2003 to 2011, Ms. Friedman’s responsibilities also included identifying and developing strategic opportunities, including all M&A, for NASDAQ OMX. From 2000 to 2009, Ms. Friedman also served as the Executive Vice President of the Global Data Products business, a $250M revenue business unit within NASDAQ OMX. Ms. Friedman joined NASDAQ in 1993, where she served in several roles, including Senior Vice President of NASDAQ Data Products, Director of Product Management for several trading-related products, and Marketing Manager. Ms. Friedman earned an M.B.A. from Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a B.A. in political science from Williams College in Massachusetts and she is board member at NASDAQ OMX Group |
| Ms Susan Wojcicki
| Susan D. Wojcicki currently serves as the Senior Vice President, Advertising, for Google, Inc. She has worked at Google since 1999, focusing on marketing, advertising and developing key products. Prior to her time at Google, Ms. Wojcicki worked in marketing at Intel Corporation and as a management consultant at Bain & Company and R.B. Webber & Company. Ms. Wojcicki holds a B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University, an M.S. in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management.Ms. Wojcicki has been a Director at salesforce.com, inc. since December 5, 2014. |
| Mr Peter Andreas Thiel
| He has been a Director of Facebook, Inc. since April 2005 Peter A. Thiel has served as a member of Facebook board of directors since April 2005. Since 2005, Mr. Thiel has been a Partner of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm. Mr. Thiel has also served as President of Clarium Capital Management, LLC, a global macro investment manager, since 2002. In 1998, Mr. Thiel co-founded PayPal, Inc., an online payment company, where he served as Chief Executive Officer, President and as Chairman of its board of directors from 2000 until its acquisition by eBay in 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Thiel worked for Credit Suisse, an investment firm, and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, a law firm. Mr. Thiel holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. |
| Mr Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
| Mark Zuckerberg is our founder and has served as our CEO and as a member of our board of directors since July 2004. Mr. Zuckerberg has served as Chairman of our board of directors since January 2012. Mr. Zuckerberg attended Harvard University where he studied computer science. |
| Mr Jeffrey A. Goldstein
| Mr. Goldstein is a Senior Advisor at Hellman & Friedman LLC, a private equity firm. He was a Managing Director at Hellman & Friedman from 2011 to 2016 and was previously at the firm from 2004 to 2009. He was Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance and Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury from 2009 to 2011. Mr. Goldstein has served as a director of the company since 2014. Mr. Goldstein worked at James D. Wolfensohn Inc. and successor firms for 15 years. When Wolfensohn & Co. was purchased by Bankers Trust in 1996, he served as co-chairman of BT Wolfensohn and as a member of Bankers Trust’s management committee. In 1999, Mr. Goldstein became a managing director of the World Bank. He also served as its Chief Financial Officer beginning in 2003. In July of 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Mr. Goldstein to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance. In July 2011, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner awarded Mr. Goldstein with the Alexander Hamilton award, the highest honor for a presidential appointee. Earlier in his career Mr. Goldstein taught economics at Princeton University and worked at the Brookings Institution. In addition to the public company board service noted below, Mr. Goldstein is a member of the Board of Directors of Edelman Financial Services, LLC and on the Advisory Board of Promontory Financial Group, LLC. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Vassar College. Mr. Goldstein earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College and a Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. |
| Mr Daniel Cain
| Mr. Daniel Cain was elected a director in 2004 and was chair of the board of directors from 2005 to 2008. Since October 1994, Mr. Cain has provided consulting services for small businesses. Since May 2000, he has also served as acting chief executive officer of Wireless Medical, Inc., a Colorado-based medical device company. From 1969 to 1994, Mr. Cain held various positions with Miles Laboratories, Inc., Hexcel Corporation, Scripps-Miles, Inc., Synbiotics Corporation and Heska Corporation. Mr. Cain has 38 years of broad business experience including 28 years with medical companies. Sixteen of these years were with three different biotech startup companies, one of which he co-founded. Mr. Cain has held a wide variety of executive level management positions including chief executive officer, president and chief financial officer. Mr. Cain earned a B.S. degree from LeTourneau College and a M.B.A. degree from Indiana University. |
| Ms Ruth I. Dreessen
| Ms Ruth I. Dreessen is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Gevo Inc since September 22, 2015. Ruth Dreessen Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of TPC Group, Inc. from November 2005 to May 2010; Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Westlake Chemical Corp. from 2003 to 2005. Worked for JP Morgan Chase & Co. (and predecessor companies) for 21 years in various banking capacities, ending as a Managing Director of an investment banking unit. |
| Mr Gary W. Mize
| Mr Gary W. Mize is a member of board of directors at Gevo Inc since September 2011. Since October 2009, Mr. Mize has held the position as partner and owner at MR & Associates. Mr. Mize served as president of Rawhide Energy LLC, an ethanol company, from April 2007 to April 2009. Mr. Mize also served as non-executive chairman at Ceres Global AG, a Canadian public company that serves as a vehicle for agribusiness investments, from December 2007 to April 2010. Mr. Mize has also served Noble Group, Hong Kong, as Global Chief Operating Officer from July 2003 to December 2005 and Executive Director from December 2005 to January 2006. Previously, he was president of the Grain Processing Group at ConAgra Foods, Inc., president and CEO of ConAgra Malt and held various positions at Cargill, Inc. Mr. Mize holds a BA in Business and Marketing from Michigan State University. Mr. Mize brings international business experience to the board having previously held expatriate positions in Switzerland, Brazil and Hong Kong. |
| Mr Patrick R. Gruber
| Mr Patrick R. Gruber is a member of board of directors and Chief Executive Officerat Gevo Inc since 2007. Prior to joining the company, from 2005 to 2007 Dr. Gruber was President and Chief Executive Officer of Outlast Technologies, Inc., a technology and marketing company primarily serving the textile industry, where he was responsible for all aspects of Outlast Technologies’ business. Previously, Dr. Gruber co-founded NatureWorks LLC (formerly Cargill Dow, LLC) and served as Vice President, Technology and Operations, and Chief Technology Officer from 1997 to 2005, where he was responsible for all aspects of the business’s project, application and process technology development. Dr. Gruber is a member of the Bioenergy Technical Advisory Committee for the Energy Future Coalition. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Segetis, Inc. and Green Harvest Technologies, LLC. From 2007 to 2008, he served on the board of directors of Outlast Technologies, Inc. In 2008, Dr. Gruber was awarded the first ever George Washington Carver Award, recognizing significant contributions by individuals in the field of industrial biotechnology and its application in biological engineering, environmental science, biorefining and biobased products. Dr. Gruber holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Minnesota, an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in chemistry and biology from the University of St. Thomas. |
| Mr Antonio J. Gracias
| Mr Antonio J. Gracias is a member of board of directors at SolarCity Corp since February 2012. Mr Gracias has been a member of the Board of Directors at Tesla Motors Inc since May 2007 and has served as our Lead Independent Director since September 2010. Since 2003, Mr Gracias has been Chief Executive Officer of Valor Management Corp., a private equity firm. Mr Gracias is a director of SpaceX and SolarCity Corporation. Mr Gracias holds a joint B.S. and M.S. degree in international finance and economics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. |
| Mr Kimbal Musk
| Mr Kimbal Musk is a director of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc since September 1, 2013. He has been a member of Tesla Board of Directors since April 2004. Mr. Musk has been the owner of The Kitchen Restaurant Group, a USA Today Top Ten restaurant, since January 2004 and its Chief Executive Officer since April 2004. In November 2010, Mr. Musk became the Executive Director of The Kitchen Community, a non-profit organization that creates learning gardens in schools across the United States. Since February 2012, Mr. Musk has been a director of the Los Angeles Fund for Public Education, a philanthropic organization dedicated to driving positive change in the Los Angeles Unified School District. In November 1995, Mr. Musk co-founded Zip2 Corporation, a provider of enterprise software and services, which was acquired by Compaq in March 1999. Mr. Musk holds a B.Comm. in business from Queen’s University and is a graduate of The French Culinary Institute in New York City. |
| Mr Elon Musk
| Mr Elon Musk has served as Chief Executive Officer since October 2008 and Chairman of the board of directors at Tesla Motors since April 2004. Elon is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at SolarCity Corp since July 2006. Mr Musk has also served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (“SpaceX”), a company which is developing and launching advanced rockets for satellite and eventually human transportation, since May 2002, and as Chairman of SolarCity, a solar installation company, since July 2006. Prior to joining SpaceX, Mr Musk co-founded PayPal, an electronic payment system, which was acquired by eBay in October 2002, and Zip2 Corporation, a provider of Internet enterprise software and services, which was acquired by Compaq in March 1999. Mr Musk holds a B.A. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in business from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. |
| Mr Stephen Jurvetson
| Stephen T. Jurvetson has been a member Tesla Board of Directors since June 2009. Since 1995, Mr. Jurvetson has been a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a venture capital firm. Mr. Jurvetson is a director of NeoPhotonics Corporation, Synthetic Genomics Inc. and SpaceX, among others. Mr. Jurvetson holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Business School. |
| Mr Ira Ehrenpreis
| Ira Ehrenpreis has been a member of our Board of Directors since May 2007. Mr. Ehrenpreis has been with Technology Partners, a venture capital firm, since 1996. He is presently a managing member of the firm and leads Technology Partners’ Cleantech practice. In the venture capital community, he serves on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association and the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and is the Co-Chairman of the VCNetwork, an organization comprising more than 1,000 venture capitalists. In the cleantech sector, he has served on several industry boards, including the American Council on Renewable Energy and the Cleantech Venture Network (Past Chairman of Advisory Board), and has been the Chairman of the Clean-Tech Investor Summit in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Mr. Ehrenpreis holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. and M.B.A. from Stanford University. |
| Mr Jeffrey B. Straubel
| Mr Jeffrey B. Straubel is a member of board of directors at SolarCity Corp since August 2006. Mr Jeffrey has served as Chief Technology Officer since May 2005 and previously served as Principal Engineer, Drive Systems from March 2004 to May 2005 at Tesla Motors Inc. Prior to joining Tesla Motors, Mr Straubel was the Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Volacom Inc., an aerospace firm which designed a specialized high-altitude electric aircraft platform, from 2002 to 2004. Mr Straubel holds a B.S. in energy systems engineering from Stanford University and a M.S. in engineering, with an emphasis on power electronics, microprocessor control and energy conversion, from Stanford University. |
| Mr Paul Pressler
| Paul Pressler has served on our Board since March 2008. Mr. Pressler has been a partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc., a private equity firm, since October 2010, and prior to that, served as advisory partner since July 2009. Previously, Mr. Pressler was president and chief executive officer of Gap, Inc. from September 2002 to January 2007. He also served on Gap, Inc.'s board of directors from October 2002 until January 2007. Prior to joining Gap, Inc., Mr. Pressler spent fifteen years with The Walt Disney Company where he was chairman of the company's global theme park and resorts division. Mr. Pressler also served as president of Disneyland, president of The Disney Stores and senior vice president of Disney Consumer Products. Mr. Pressler is a member of the board of directors of two private companies. Mr. Pressler previously served as a member of the board of directors of Overture Acquisition Corp. from 2008 until 2010. Mr. Pressler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Economics from the State University of New York at Oneonta. |
| Mr Donald Macleod
| Mr Donald MacLeod is an independent director of Avago Technologies Ltd since November 2007. Mr Macleod joined National Semiconductor Corporation in February 1978 and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from November 2009 to September 2011, when National Semiconductor Corporation was acquired by Texas Instruments Incorporated. He served as National Semiconductor Corporation’s President and Chief Operating Officer from the beginning of 2005 until November 2009, and before that he held various other executive and senior management positions at the company including Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Mr Macleod also served as the Chairman of the board of directors of National Semiconductor Corporation from May 2010 to September 2011. |
| Ms Melissa Garza
| Ms Melissa Garza is a Chief Human Resource Officer at PowerFleet Inc. |
| Mr Warren East
| Warren East is the CEO of Rolls-Royce. Prior to Rolls-Royce, Mr. East was the CEO of ARM Holdings PLC. He joined ARM in 1994, where he later became Vice President of Business Operations. Within three years, he was appointed to the Board as Chief Executive Officer, and he served in that capacity from October 2001 to July 1, 2013. Prior to ARM, Mr. East was with Texas Instruments. He currently serves on the board of De La Rule PLC, Inc. Mr. East is a chartered engineer, Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute. Mr. East holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering science from Oxford University and an MBA and honorary doctorate from Cranfield University. Mr. East joined micron Board of Directors in July 2013. |
| Ms Ann Huntress Lamont
| Ms Ann Huntress Lamont is director at HCA Holdings Inc since May 2013. She has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2004. Ms. Lamont has been with Oak Investment Partners, a multi-stage venture capital firm, since 1982, serving as a General Partner from 1986 to 2006 and as a Managing Partner since 2006. Prior to joining Oak, Ms. Lamont served as a research associate with Hambrecht & Quist. Ms. Lamont currently serves on the Stanford University Board of Trustees and on the board of directors of various private companies. Ms. Lamont holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Stanford University. |
