People: NVIDIA Corp (NVDA.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Jen-Hsun Huang	50	1993	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Karen Burns	45	2011	Interim Chief Financial Officer, Vice President
David Shannon	57	2009	Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Ajay Puri	58	2009	Executive Vice President - Worldwide Sales
Debora Shoquist	58	2009	Executive Vice President - Operations
William Miller	67	2009	Lead Independent Director
Robert Burgess	55	2011	Independent Director
Tench Coxe	55	1993	Independent Director
James Gaither	75	2009	Independent Director
Harvey Jones	60	1993	Independent Director
Mark Perry	57	2005	Independent Director
A. Brooke Seawell	65	1997	Independent Director
Mark Stevens	53	2008	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Jen-Hsun Huang	Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of NVIDIA Corp. He is co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served since the inception as president, chief executive officer and a member of the Board. From 1985 to 1993, Mr. Huang was employed at LSI Logic Corporation, a computer chip manufacturer, where he held a variety of positions, most recently as director of coreware, the business unit responsible for LSI’s “system-on-a-chip” strategy. From 1984 to 1985, Mr. Huang was a microprocessor designer for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a semiconductor company. Mr. Huang holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Oregon State University and an M.S.E.E. degree from Stanford University.
Karen Burns	Ms. Karen T. Burns is Interim Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of NVIDIA Corporation. From December 2010 to March 2011, Ms. Burns served as NVIDIA's Vice President, Corporate Controller and Tax and as Vice President - Tax from November 2007. From October 2000 to October 2007, Ms. Burns served as head of the tax department in various capacities, including Senior Director and Director. Previous to NVIDIA, Ms. Burns served nine years in various capacities in tax and audit with KPMG, a global public accounting firm, in their Atlanta, London, and Silicon Valley based practices. Ms. Burns holds both a B.A. and an M.A. in Accounting from Florida State University.
David Shannon	Mr. David M. Shannon is Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of NVIDIA Corporation. He joined NVIDIA in August 2002 as Vice President and General Counsel. Mr. Shannon became Secretary of NVIDIA in April 2005, a Senior Vice President in December 2005 and an Executive Vice President in January 2009. From 1993 to 2002, Mr. Shannon held various counsel positions at Intel, including the most recent position of Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. Mr. Shannon also practiced for eight years in the law firm of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher, focusing on complex commercial and high-technology related litigation. Mr. Shannon holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Pepperdine University.
Ajay Puri	Mr. Ajay K. Puri is Executive Vice President - Worldwide Sales of NVIDIA Corp. He joined NVIDIA in December 2005. Prior to NVIDIA, he held positions in sales, marketing, and general management over a 22-year career at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mr. Puri previously held marketing, management consulting, and product development positions at Hewlett-Packard Company, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., and Texas Instruments Incorporated. Mr. Puri holds an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University, an M.S.E.E. degree from the California Institute of Technology and a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Minnesota.
Debora Shoquist	Ms. Debora C. Shoquist is Executive Vice President - Operations of NVIDIA Corporation. She joined NVIDIA in September 2007 as Senior Vice President of Operations. From 2004 to 2007, Ms. Shoquist served as Senior Vice President of Operations at JDS Uniphase Corporation, a provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for the telecommunications industry. From 2002 to 2004, she served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Electro-Optics business at Coherent, Inc., a manufacturer of commercial and scientific laser equipment. Her experience includes her role at Quantum Corporation as the President of the Personal Computer Hard Disk Drive Division. Her experience also includes senior roles at Hewlett-Packard Corporation. She holds a B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University and a B.S. degree in Biology from Santa Clara University.
William Miller	Mr. William J. Miller serves as a Lead Independent Director of NVIDIA Corp. He has served as an independent board member for several companies and has been an occasional consultant to technology companies since October 1999. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Miller was chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of Avid Technology, Inc., a provider of digital tools for multimedia. Mr. Miller also served as president of Avid Technology from 1996 to 1999. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Miller served as chief executive officer of Quantum Corporation, a mass storage company. He was a member of the board of directors of Quantum, and Chairman thereof, from 1992 and 1993, respectively, to 1995. From 1981 to 1992, he served in various positions at Control Data Corporation, a supplier of computer hardware, software and services, most recently as executive vice president and president, information services. Mr. Miller serves on the board of directors of Waters Corporation, a scientific instrument manufacturing company, Digimarc Corporation, a developer and supplier of secure identification products and digital watermarking technology, and Glu Mobile, Inc., a publisher of mobile games. Mr. Miller served on the board of directors of Overland Storage, Inc. from 2006 to 2009 and Viewsonic Corporation from 2004 to 2008. Mr. Miller holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota.
Robert Burgess	Mr. Robert K. Burgess has been appointed as an Independent Director of NVIDIA Corp., since December 2011. He has served as an independent investor and board member to technology companies since December 2005. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Macromedia, Inc., a provider of Internet and multimedia software, from 1996 to 2005. He also served on the board of directors of Macromedia from 1996 until 2005, as Chairman of the Board of Macromedia from 1998 until 2005 and as Executive Chairman of Macromedia from 2005 until 2005, when Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Prior to joining Macromedia, Mr. Burgess held key executive positions at Silicon Graphics, Inc., a graphics and computing company, and from 1991 to 1995 served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Alias Research, Inc., a publicly traded 3D software company, prior to its acquisition by Silicon Graphics. Mr. Burgess currently serves on the board of Adobe Systems Incorporated, IMRIS Inc. and several privately-held companies. Mr. Burgess holds a B.Com. degree from McMaster University in Canada.
Tench Coxe	Mr. Tench Coxe is Independent Director of NVIDIA Corp. He is a managing director of the general partner of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture capital investment firm. Prior to joining Sutter Hill Ventures in 1987, Mr. Coxe was director of marketing and MIS at Digital Communications Associates. Mr. Coxe also serves on the board of directors of Mattersight Corporation, a customer loyalty software firm, Artisan Partners, an institutional money management firm, and several privately-held companies. Mr. Coxe holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School. Mr. Coxe has 25 years of experience as an early-stage venture capital investor, principally in the technology industry. He has been a primary investor in and served on the board of directors of several companies.
James Gaither	Mr. James C. Gaither is Independent Director of NVIDIA Corp. He has been a managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture capital investment firm, since July 2000. He is a retired partner of the law firm of Cooley LLP and was a partner of the firm from 1971 until 2000 and senior counsel to the firm from 2000 to 2003. Prior to beginning his law practice with the firm in 1969, Mr. Gaither served as a law clerk to The Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice and staff assistant to the President of the United States, Lyndon Johnson. Mr. Gaither is a former president of the Board of Trustees at Stanford University, former vice chairman of the board of directors of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and immediate past chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mr. Gaither holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Princeton University and a J.D. degree from Stanford University Law School.
Harvey Jones	Mr. Harvey C. Jones serves as an Independent Director of NVIDIA Corp., since November 1993. Mr. Jones is the chairman of the board of directors of Tensilica Inc., a privately-held company he co-founded in 1997. Tensilica designs and licenses application-specific microprocessors for use in high-volume embedded systems. Mr. Jones also serves as a private venture capitalist to technology companies. From 1987 through 1998, Mr. Jones held various positions at Synopsys, Inc., an electronic design automation software company, where he served as chief executive officer through 1994 and as executive chairman of the board of directors until 1998. Prior to Synopsys, Mr. Jones served as president and chief executive officer of Daisy Systems Corporation, a computer-aided engineering company that he co-founded in 1981. Mr. Jones served on the board of directors of Wind River Systems, Inc., an embedded software and services provider, from 2004 to 2009. Mr. Jones holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from Georgetown University and an M.S. degree in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mark Perry	Mr. Mark L. Perry is Independent Director of NVIDIA Corp. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Third Rock Ventures, a venture capital firm. Mr. Perry is also the chairman of Pathway Therapeutics and a member of the board of directors of MyoKardia, Inc., both private biotechnology companies, and has served as an independent board member for several biotechnology and high technology companies. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Perry served as the president and chief executive officer and member of the board of directors of Aerovance, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. Prior to joining Aerovance, Mr. Perry served as the senior business advisor for Gilead Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Perry was an executive officer of Gilead from 1994 to 2004, serving in a variety of capacities, including general counsel, chief financial officer and, most recently, executive vice president of operations. From 1981 to 1994, Mr. Perry was with the law firm of Cooley LLP in San Francisco and Palo Alto, California, serving as a partner of the firm from 1987 until 1994. From 2003 to 2009, Mr. Perry served as a member of the board of directors of Nuvelo, Inc. Mr. Perry holds a B.A. degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. degree from the University of California, Davis.
A. Brooke Seawell	Mr. A. Brooke Seawell is Independent Director of NVIDIA Corp. He has been a venture partner with New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital investment firm, since January 2005. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Seawell was a partner with Technology Crossover Ventures, a venture capital investment firm. From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Seawell was executive vice president of NetDynamics, Inc., an application server software company, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc. From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Seawell was senior vice president and chief financial officer of Synopsys, Inc., an electronic design automation software company. Mr. Seawell serves on the board of directors of Informatica Corporation, a data integration software company, Glu Mobile, Inc., a publisher of mobile games, and several privately-held companies. Mr. Seawell previously served on the Management Board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Seawell holds a B.A. degree in Economics and an M.B.A. degree in Finance from Stanford University.
Mark Stevens	Mr. Mark A. Stevens is Independent Director of NVIDIA Corp. He is the managing partner of S-Cubed Capital, a private office investment firm. From 1993 to 2011, Mr. Stevens was a managing member of Sequoia Capital, a venture capital investment firm. Prior to that time, beginning in 1989, he was an associate at Sequoia Capital. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, he held technical sales and marketing positions at Intel Corporation, a technology company, and was a member of the technical staff at Hughes Aircraft Company, an aerospace company. Mr. Stevens serves as a Trustee of the University of Southern California and is a part-time lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. From 2006 to 2012, he also served as a member of the board of directors of Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited. Mr. Stevens holds a B.S.E.E. degree, a B.A. degree in Economics and an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Jen-Hsun Huang	5,544,190
Karen Burns	841,517
David Shannon	1,797,780
Ajay Puri	2,090,080
Debora Shoquist	1,508,910
William Miller	--
Robert Burgess	--
Tench Coxe	--
James Gaither	--
Harvey Jones	--
Mark Perry	--
A. Brooke Seawell	--
Mark Stevens	--

As Of 26 Jan 2013

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Jen-Hsun Huang	8,603,496	120,577,004
Karen Burns	12,630	116,763
David Shannon	855,500	12,666,360
Ajay Puri	566,611	1,187,660
Debora Shoquist	0	0
William Miller	0	0
Robert Burgess	0	0
Tench Coxe	0	0
James Gaither	0	0
Harvey Jones	0	0
Mark Perry	0	0
A. Brooke Seawell	0	0
Mark Stevens	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
BYRON MICHAEL	743	$12.48
BURNS KAREN	10,300	$0.00
BURNS KAREN	2,020	$12.62
PURI AJAY K	5,767	$12.62
PURI AJAY K	27,600	$0.00
SHANNON DAVID M	23,900	$0.00
BYRON MICHAEL	8,000	$0.00
SHOQUIST DEBORA C	5,025	$12.62
SHANNON DAVID M	5,532	$12.62
HUANG JEN HSUN	300,000	$0.00
SHOQUIST DEBORA C	20,700	$0.00
BYRON MICHAEL	1,080	$12.62
HUANG JEN HSUN	584,000	$0.00
HUANG JEN HSUN	584,000	$0.00
BYRON MICHAEL	6,240	$12.03
BURNS KAREN	2,036	$13.71
PURI AJAY K	5,458	$13.71
BURNS KAREN	5,000	$0.00
PURI AJAY K	12,500	$0.00
SHANNON DAVID M	5,497	$13.71
SHOQUIST DEBORA C	12,500	$0.00
SHANNON DAVID M	12,500	$0.00
SHOQUIST DEBORA C	4,710	$13.71
BYRON MICHAEL	918	$13.71
BYRON MICHAEL	5,000	$0.00

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