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James Lau is chief strategy officer, responsible for guiding the evolution of Network Appliance's business strategy and identifying additional market and product opportunities to fuel future growth. He cofounded NetApp with Dave Hitz in 1992 and was vice president of engineering from then until... 1995. Prior to starting Network Appliance, Lau served as director of software development at Auspex, a file server manufacturer, where he was instrumental in defining product requirements and the architecture of that company's high-performance NFS file servers. Prior to Auspex, he was group manager of PC products at Bridge Communications, now known as 3Com. Lau received a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in computer engineering from Stanford University.
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Carol Ann Bartz is an American business executive, the former president and CEO of the Internet services company Yahoo!, and former chairman,... president, and CEO at architectural and engineering design software company Autodesk. Bartz was born in Winona, Minnesota. Her mother, Shirley Bartz, died when Carol was eight years old. A few years later, she and her younger brother Jim moved from Minnesota to the home of their grandmother, Alice Schwartz, on a dairy farm near Alma, Wisconsin. In high school, Bartz did well in mathematics, and was also homecoming queen. She began college at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri, and subsequently transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she received a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1971. While in college, she supported herself as a cocktail waitress. Carol Bartz also has two half brothers and two half sisters all living in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Alan L. Earhart was appointed to the Network Appliance board in December 2004. Much of Earhart's distinguished career in Silicon Valley has been... spent in various positions at Coopers & Lybrand, including San Francisco regional managing partner, San Jose Office managing partner, technical consulting partner, and chairman of Coopers & Lybrand's National Venture Capital Industry Group. During his time at PwC, Earhart served such clients as Ampex, Cisco, Convergent Technologies, Legato, Polycom, and Varian Inc. Earhart currently serves as chairman of the audit committee on the boards of Quantum Corporation, Foundry Networks, and Monolithic Power Systems. Earhart has a bachelor of science degree in certified public accounting from the University of Oregon.
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Kozel is a seasoned technology leader and innovator. As an early employee at Cisco Systems, Kozel helped to grow the company into a multinational... technology leader over 12 years, as its Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President of Business Development, and as a board member until 2002. Most recently Kozel was Managing Director of Integrated Finance, Ltd., a private advisory services firm and spent five years as Managing Member of Open Range LLC., a private venture firm. Kozel previously worked at Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and At SRI International, where he participated in the early design and development of the Internetwork Protocol model and TCP/IP, packet radio networks and highly distributed information systems. Kozel serves on the boards of Yahoo!, Reuters PLC and Network Appliance. He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a degree in electrical engineering.
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