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Kanwal Rekhi
Jim Tolonen
Srikanth Chari
Bob Davis
Jane Wike
Nancy Tullos
Kenneth Kucera
John Teddy
Larry Waggoner
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Kanwal Rekhi
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Kanwal Rekhi has served as Chairman of the Board of the Company since February 1998 and as a director since September 1995. From June 1989 to January 1995, Mr. Rekhi served as an executive vice president and chief technology officer of Novell, Inc., a local area network and software company. Mr. Rekhi was a director at Novell from June 1989 to September 1995. Mr. Rekhi currently serves as a director at Exodus Communications, Inc., an internet data center company. Mr. Rekhi holds a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology of Bombay, India, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University.
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Jim Tolonen
President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Tolonen was formerly the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Novell, Inc. where he served for nine years. In addition to his role as Board Member and Chief Operating Officer for CyberMedia, Inc., Mr. Tolonen also serves as Chairman of the NASDAQ Issuer Committee and is a member of the California Association of CPAs and the Software Publishers Association. Prior to joining Novell, he was the CFO at Excelan, where he guided the company from a small, privately held technology house, to a multi-million dollar publicly held company until its eventual merger with Novell. Mr. Tolonen holds both a Master's Degree in Business and a Mechanical Engineering degree, each from the University of Michigan.
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Srikanth Chari
Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing
Dr. Chari has served as Vice President of Marketing since co-founding the Company in November 1991. From November 1991 to August 1996, Dr. Chari also served as director of the Company. From July 1990 to October 1991, he served as Director of Marketing for NetLabs, Inc. Dr. Chari holds a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology of Delhi, India; an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management of Ahmedabad, India; and a Ph.D. in Business from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Bob Davis
Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Product Group
Mr. Davis was Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Novell, where his achievements in developing international marketing and distribution strategies helped to establish Novell as the world leader in networking products. As Vice President and General Manager of Novell's Connectivity Products Group, Davis successfully pioneered the development of the company's enterprise product. Utilizing 16 years of technical marketing experience, he is responsible for developing and implementing long-range strategies to increase the company's position in the retail market, and to expand its presence in OEM, corporate, international and government channels. Mr. Davis graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He also holds a Masters of Business degree from Santa Clara University.
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Jane Wike
Vice President of Finance
Ms. Jane E. Wike joined CyberMedia in June 1997. From September of 1992 to June of 1997 she held various accounting positions including Controller at ISOCOR, an internet and X.400 software solutions provider. Ms. Wike is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Nancy Tullos
Vice President, Human Resources
Ms. Tullos' 20-year career in managing human resources includes 10 years as Vice President of Human Resources and Administrative Services at Micropolis (USA) Inc., a manufacturer of high-end disk storage. She has extensive international experience, was a leader in the company's restructuring process, and authored corporate policy and human resource programs for the firm's 3,000 employees. Ms. Tullos holds an MBA, summa cum laude, from Pepperdine University.
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Kenneth Kucera
Vice President, Worldwide Retail Sales
With 25 years of technical sales, marketing, and executive management experience, Mr. Kucera's focus is on architecting the company's retail sales and marketing strategies. He was President of First Byte, Inc., the leading supplier of text to speech software, and Chairman and CEO of Swallowtail Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of data compression software.
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John Teddy
Vice President, Engineering
As a chief architect at Symantec, Mr. Teddy's technical and leadership skills helped to create some of the most successful software in the industry, including PCTools for Windows, Norton Navigator, CrashGuard, XtreeGold, and Internet FastFind. Highly respected by engineers, Mr. Teddy worked on early versions of Microsoft Windows and other award-winning software. As CyberMedia's development director, Mr. Teddy helped to create top business software including UnInstaller, GuardDog and AntiVirus.
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Larry Waggoner
Vice President, Operations
Mr. Waggoner joined CyberMedia in February 1995 as the company controller and its twelfth employee. Promoted to vice president of Operations in July of 1997, he manages the Service, Manufacturing and IT/IS groups. Mr. Waggoner has held various executive positions including President of AMS an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for Hewlett-Packard, Director of Western Region at IDC, Controller at California Interactive Computing and several years in the USAF. Mr. Waggoner holds a BA in Management from Redlands University.
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