People: Accuray Inc (ARAY.O)

Mr. Louis J. Lavigne, Jr., is Independent Chairperson of the Board of Accuray Incorporated. Mr. Lavigne has been Managing Director of Lavite, LLC, a management-consulting firm specializing in the areas of corporate finance, accounting and growth strategy and management since 2005. From 1983 to 2005, Mr. Lavigne served in various executive capacities with Genentech, Inc., a healthcare company, namely, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to 2005; Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1994 to 1997; Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1988 to 1994; Vice President from 1986 to 1988; and Controller from 1983 to 1986. Mr. Lavigne has also served on the boards of directors of Allergan, Inc., a technology-driven, global health care company that provides specialty pharmaceutical products worldwide since 2005 and BMC Software, Inc., an independent systems software vendor that specializes in software solutions that allow companies to manage their information technology infrastructure from a business perspective since 2008, and he previously served on BMC Software's board of directors from 2004 to 2007. Mr. Lavigne also currently serves as a member of the board of directors of SafeNet, Inc., a private information security company. Within the past five years, Mr. Lavigne also served as a director of the following public companies: Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Equinix, Inc. and Kyphon, Inc, as well as private companies Emphasis Search, Inc. and Life Masters Supported Self Care. Mr. Lavigne serves as a board member of Children's Hospital in Oakland, California, as a faculty member of Babson College's Bio-Pharma: Mastering the Business of Science Program, as a Trustee of Babson College (and Babson Global) and of the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and of the Seven Hills School. Mr. Lavigne holds a B.S. in Finance from Babson College in Babson Park, Massachusetts, and an M.B.A. from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.