People: Echelon Corp (ELON.O)

ELON.O on Nasdaq

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23 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Ronald Sege

55 2011 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer

Armas Markkula

70 1989 Independent Vice Chairman of the Board

William Slakey

54 2011 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President

Michael Anderson

43 2013 Senior Vice President, General Manager - Grid Modernization

Varun Nagaraj

47 2012 Senior Vice President - Product Management and Marketing

Anders Axelsson

53 2012 Senior Vice President - Strategic Accounts and Business Development

Russell Harris

51 2001 Senior Vice President - Operations

Robert Hon

58 2011 Senior Vice President - Engineering

Robert Maxfield

70 2010 Director

Robyn Denholm

49 2008 Independent Director

Robert Finocchio

61 2008 Presiding Independent Director

Richard Moley

73 1997 Independent Director

Betsy Rafael

50 2005 Independent Director

Larry Sonsini

71 1993 Independent Director

Annie Leschin

Investor Relations Officer

Biographies

Name Description

Ronald Sege

Mr. Ronald A. Sege is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Echelon Corp. He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since October 2011. Prior to joining Echelon, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of 3COM Corporation from 2008 to 2010. He held the position of President and CEO of Tropos Networks from 2004 to 2008, and was the President and CEO of Ellacoya Networks from 2001 to 2004. Earlier in Mr. Sege's career, he was Executive Vice President at Lycos from 1998 to 2001 and he spent 10 years at 3COM holding various Executive Vice President and Vice President positions. Mr. Sege received his BA in Economics from Pomona College and earned an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Armas Markkula

Mr. Armas Clifford Markkula, Jr., is Independent Vice Chairman of the Board of Echelon Corp., since 1989. He is the founder of company and has served as a director since 1988. Mr. Markkula was Chairman of the Board of Apple Computer from January 1977 to May 1983 and from October 1993 to February 1996 and was a director from 1977 to 1997. A founder of Apple, he held a variety of positions there, including President/Chief Executive Officer and Vice President of Marketing. Prior to founding Apple, Mr. Markkula was with Intel Corporation as Marketing Manager, Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation as Marketing Manager in the Semiconductor Division, and Hughes Aircraft as a member of the technical staff in the company’s research and development laboratory. Mr. Markkula is a former trustee of Santa Clara University and served as Chair of the Board of Trustees from 2003 through 2009. Mr. Markkula received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

William Slakey

Mr. William R. Slakey is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Echelon Corp. Mr. Slakey joined company from LiveOps Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer. He has also held the position of Chief Financial Officer at Extreme Networks and Handspring, Inc., as well as at several private companies including SnapTrack and Tropos Networks. Previously, Mr. Slakey held senior finance and investor relations positions at 3Com and Apple. Mr. Slakey holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Michael Anderson

Mr. Michael T. Anderson is Senior Vice President, General Manager - Grid Modernization of Echelon Corp. Previously he served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Markets from January 2012 to January 2013, and as Senior Vice President of Utilities Sales & Market Development from November 2009 to December 2011. Mr. Anderson joined company from Telcordia Technologies, where he was President of the Next Generation software division, focused on telecommunications companies globally. From 2001 to 2004, he was Vice President of Marketing & Business Development for ADC Software division. Prior to joining ADC, Mr. Anderson served as President & CEO of two startup technology companies, Big Planet and Telismart, which were both sold under his leadership. Prior to these assignments, he was Vice President of Product Development for GST Telecom, a company that was acquired by Time Warner. Mr. Anderson started his career with AT&T in 1992. He holds a B.A. from the University of Washington.

Varun Nagaraj

Mr. Varun Nagaraj is Senior Vice President - Product Management and Marketing of Echelon Corp. He served as Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing from May 2011 to December 2011. Prior to joining company, Mr. Nagaraj was the CEO of NetContinuum. Prior to NetContinuum, he served as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Customer Operations for Ellacoya. Prior to Ellacoya, he was Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Extreme Networks. Mr. Nagaraj was previously a Partner at PRTM, a management consulting company focused on product and operations strategy. He started his career at HP. He received a B.S.E.E. from IIT Bombay, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, and an M.B.A. from Boston University.

Anders Axelsson

Mr. Anders B. Axelsson is Senior Vice President - Strategic Accounts and Business Development of Echelon Corp. He served as Senior Vice President of Commercial Sales & Market Development from June 2003 to December 2011. Prior to joining company, he was Chief Executive Officer of PowerFile, Inc. From 1999 to 2001, he was President/General Manager of Snap Appliances, Inc. Between 1992 and 1999, he worked for Measurex, which was later acquired by Honeywell, and served in several positions, including Vice President of Engineering and Marketing and President/Managing Director for Europe. Mr. Axelsson started his career with ABB in 1981 where he worked for 11 years in various sales, marketing, and engineering management positions. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from ED Technical Institute in Jonkpoing, Sweden and is a graduate of the Executive Program at the University of Michigan.

Russell Harris

Mr. Russell Harris is Senior Vice President - Operations of Echelon Corp. Prior to joining company, he served as the Vice President of Operations for NetDynamics from 1996 until its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 1998. From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Harris served in a management transition role for Sun Microsystems. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Harris was the Director of Operations at Silicon Graphics, Inc. From 1985 through 1991, he held various positions at Convergent Technologies and Unisys Corporation. His last position at Unisys was as Director of IT for Worldwide Operations. Mr. Harris earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Robert Hon

Mr. Robert W. Hon, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President - Engineering of Echelon Corp. Prior to joining company, he served as Executive Vice President of Engineering at ConSentry Networks. Prior to ConSentry Networks, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Network Physics. Prior to Network Physics, Mr. Hon was the Vice President of Engineering at Packeteer. He has also held senior management positions at Cadence Design Systems and Apple, and he was on the faculty of Columbia University. Mr. Hon received a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and earned both an M.S. and Ph.D in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Robert Maxfield

Dr. Robert R. Maxfield, Ph.D., is Director of Echelon Corp., since 1989. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of company from November 2009 until August 18, 2010 and as assistant to the CEO/President from August 19, 2010 to November 4, 2010. He also served as company’s Senior Vice President of Products from April 2008 through September 2008 and a consultant to company from October 2008 through April 2009. He was a co-founder of ROLM in 1969, and served as Executive Vice President and a director until ROLM’s merger with IBM in 1984. Following the merger, he continued to serve as Vice President of ROLM until 1988. Since 1988, he has been a private investor. Mr. Maxfield was a venture partner with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, from 1989 to 1992. Mr. Maxfield received B.A. and B.S.E.E. degrees from Rice University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Robyn Denholm

Ms. Robyn M. Denholm is Independent Director of Echelon Corp., since 2008. Ms. Denholm is currently Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Juniper Networks. Prior to joining Juniper Networks in August 2007, Ms. Denholm was employed at Sun Microsystems where she served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning. In that role, she was responsible for Sun’s corporate operating system, and the global sales and service administration function and she served as the leader of Sun’s business transformation initiative. Ms. Denholm joined Sun in 1996 and served in executive assignments that included Senior Vice President, Finance; Vice President and Corporate Controller (Chief Accounting Officer); Vice President, Finance; Service Division, Director, Shared Financial Services APAC and Controller, Australia/New Zealand. Prior to joining Sun, Ms. Denholm served at Toyota Motor Corporation Australia for seven years and at Arthur Andersen and Company for five years, in various finance assignments. Ms. Denholm is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia and holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales.

Robert Finocchio

Mr. Robert J. Finocchio, Jr., is Presiding Independent Director of Echelon Corp. He has been a director of company since 1999. Mr. Finocchio served as Chairman of the Board of Informix Corporation, an information management software company, from August 1997 to September 2000. Since September 2000, Mr. Finocchio has been a dean’s executive professor at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business. From July 1997 until July 1999, Mr. Finocchio served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Informix. From December 1988 until May 1997, Mr. Finocchio was employed with 3Com Corporation, a global data networking company, where he held various positions, most recently serving as President, 3Com Systems. Mr. Finocchio also serves as a director of Broadcom Corporation and served as a director of Altera Corp. from 2002 to December 2011 and as a director of Sun Microsystems from 2006 to January 2010. Mr. Finocchio is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Santa Clara University. Mr. Finocchio holds a B.S. degree in Economics from Santa Clara University and an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School.

Richard Moley

Mr. Richard M. Moley is Independent Director of Echelon Corp., since 1997. Since August 1997, Mr. Moley has been a private investor. From July 1996 to August 1997, he served as Senior Vice President, Wide Area Business Unit and as a director of Cisco Systems, following Cisco Systems’ purchase of StrataCom, where he was Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President. Mr. Moley also serves as a director of Linear Technology. Mr. Moley received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Manchester University, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. degree from Santa Clara University.

Betsy Rafael

Ms. Betsy Rafael is Independent Director of Echelon Corp., since 2005. Since August 2007, Ms. Rafael has held the position of Vice President and Corporate Controller for Apple Inc. and was appointed to the additional role of Principal Accounting Executive in January 2008. From September 2006 to August 2007, Ms. Rafael held the position of Vice President, Corporate Finance for Cisco Systems. From April 2002 to September 2006, she served as Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer of Cisco Systems. From December 2000 to April 2002, Ms. Rafael was the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Administrative Officer of Aspect Communications, Inc., a provider of customer relationship portals. From April 2000 to November 2000, Ms. Rafael was Senior Vice-President and CFO of Escalate Inc., an enterprise e-commerce application service provider. From 1994 to 2000, Ms. Rafael held a number of senior positions at Silicon Graphics, culminating her career at Silicon Graphics as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to SGI, Ms. Rafael held senior management positions in finance with Sun Microsystems and Apple Computer. Ms. Rafael began her career with Arthur Young & Company. Ms. Rafael received a B.S.C. degree in Accounting from Santa Clara University.

Larry Sonsini

Mr. Larry W. Sonsini is Independent Director of Echelon Corp., since 1993. Mr. Sonsini serves as Chairman of the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., where he has practiced since 1966. Mr. Sonsini received an A.B. degree in Political Science and Economics and an L.L.B. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Sonsini served as a director of LSI Logic Corporation (currently LSI Corporation), from 2000 to 2006, as a director of Pixar from 1995 to 2006 and as a director of Silicon Valley Bancshares from 2003 to 2006.

Annie Leschin

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Ronald Sege

1,905,000

Armas Markkula

--

William Slakey

909,063

Michael Anderson

886,245

Varun Nagaraj

1,466,830

Anders Axelsson

949,947

Russell Harris

936,722

Robert Hon

1,169,210

Robert Maxfield

679,892

Robyn Denholm

--

Robert Finocchio

--

Richard Moley

--

Betsy Rafael

--

Larry Sonsini

--

Annie Leschin

--
As Of 30 Dec 2011

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