Board of Directors

President Tom Rathjen Accuray trathjen@accuray.com 408-789-4458 Tom Rathjen is the Vice President of Investor Relations for Accuray, Inc., the global leader in robotic radiosurgery. Previously, Tom was the Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications for Nabi Biopharmaceuticals and was the Vice President of Investor Relations for Genencor International, a diversified biotech company. Before being lured to the corporate side, Tom was a Vice President for the New York Stock Exchange, where he opened, staffed and managed the Palo Alto office, the Big Board's first office outside of New York. Part of his responsibilities at the NYSE was managing the business development and client service effort in the 13 Western States. Prior to joining the NYSE, Tom was a Senior Director at the Nasdaq Stock Market, serving as a member of the "Nasdaq 100" team. He began his Wall Street career as a stockbroker at Drexel Burnham Lambert in Beverly Hills. In addition to being a NIRI Silicon Valley board member for the past 5 years, Tom also served for 2 years on NIRI's national conference committee and is the Co-Chair for NIRI's 2008 national conference in San Diego. He is a graduate of UCLA and attended business school at Santa Clara University. President-Elect and Vice President of Professional Development Ken Bond Verisign kbond@verisign.com 650-426-3744 Ken Bond is the Vice President of VeriSign's Investor Relations and Corporate Communications function, responsible for managing investor relations, public relations and industry analyst relations. Since joining VeriSign early in 2007, Mr. Bond has worked closely with investors and executive management in communicating VeriSign's vision and strategy. Prior to joining VeriSign, Mr. Bond spent six years at Cisco Systems as member of the company's Investor Relations team. Mr. Bond is known for his collaborative and forward thinking approach to Investor Relations having introduced a number of innovative communication vehicles to increase investor awareness and understanding of the business as well as having managed the external communication of 10+ acquisitions. Mr. Bond previously spent twelve years at Hewlett-Packard as Business Development Manager. Additionally, Mr. Bond worked at Price Waterhouse in completing his requirements to become a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Bond holds a Masters of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in Business Administration with a Concentration in Marketing from San Jose State University. He serves as President-elect on the Board of Directors of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), Silicon Valley Chapter and has been on the board the last two years. Programs Co-Chair Remy Bernarda Blueprint Life Science Group rbernarda@bplifescience.com 415-375-3340 Ext. 2022 Remy Bernarda is employed at Blueprint Life Science Group which offers management teams support in three key areas: financial advisory, business development and investor relations. Prior to Blueprint, Ms. Bernarda was employed at Hana Biosciences, an oncology focused biopharmaceutical company, since May 2006. Ms. Bernarda is responsible for all aspects of the investor relations and communications strategy and implementation. Prior to Hana, Ms. Bernarda spent twelve years working at various brokerage firms. Most recently she was Assistant VP at Knight Capital Group and was responsible for West Coast Client Service and the implementation of Corporate Access to generate new business for the firm and offer public company roadshows to the firm's buy-side institutional clients. Prior to that, she worked in the Investment Banking Division at Bear Stearns & Co. and she spent six years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where she left as a VP and Business Unit Manager for the San Francisco Equities Division. Ms. Bernarda holds an M.B.A. with a minor in Marketing and a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. Programs Co-Chair Lisa Chiorello Juniper Networks lisac@juniper.net 408-936-6123 Lisa Chiorello is the Investor Relations Manager at Juniper Networks, the leader in high-performance networking. Prior to joining Juniper, Lisa spent four years in Investor Relations at Lam Research. Lisa began her career at Lam in 1998 where she held several positions within finance and accounting prior to joining the IR team. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from San Jose Sate University. Lisa has served on the Board of Directors of the NIRI Silicon Valley Chapter for two years as Vice President of Treasury and is currently serving her third year as Co-Chair of Programs. Vice President of Marketing and Communications Judy Davies Verigy Judy.davies@verigy.com 408-864-7549 Judy Davies is the Vice President of Investor Relations and Marketing Communications at Verigy, a leading semiconductor test company, based in Cupertino, California. Prior to joining Verigy in November 2006, Judy served in the position of Vice President of Marketing Communications and Investor Relations at Credence Systems Corporation. She was responsible for the company's global branding, advertising and public relations programs, and during her tenure, Judy also managed the integration of the corporate communications and investor relations groups of six acquired companies. Prior to joining Credence, she was the Director of Worldwide Marketing Communications at Palmchip Corporation, a privately held, venture-funded semiconductor IP company. Prior to Palmchip, Judy spent six years at KLA-Tencor Corporation. At KLA-Tencor, Judy held the position of senior manager of marketing communications with responsibility of global branding, international communications, and product marketing communications. Prior to KLA-Tencor, she held the position of marketing communications generalist at Dionex Corporation, a leading manufacturer and marketer of chromatography systems for chemical analysis. Judy has also served in consulting roles, most recently at Chevron Corporation, as a change management communications consultant for their Downstream business unit. With more than twenty years of combined experience in communications and investor relations, Judy earned her Bachelors degree in Advertising with an emphasis in Psychology, and an MBA in Business Administration. In addition to being an officer of NIRI Silicon Valley, Judy has served as a Conference Committee member of NIRI National. Vice President of Programs Tricia Gugler Electronic Arts tgugler@ea.com 650-628-7327 Tricia Gugler is the Vice President of Investor Relations for Electronic Arts, the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. She joined Electronic Arts in January 2004. Prior to her role in Investor Relations, she was the Director of Accounting Policy where she was involved in writing and implementing global accounting policies and assisting with merger and acquisition financial due diligence. Prior to joining Electronic Arts, Tricia worked in public accounting for over 10 years, most recently working as an Audit Senior Manager at Ernst and Young in Palo Alto auditing clients in the technology sector, including Hewlett Packard. Tricia is a non-active CPA in California and before moving to the west coast in 2000 she was a registered CPA in Massachusetts. She earned her Bachelors of Business Administration with a focus in Accounting at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Tricia is serving her second year on the Board of Directors of the NIRI Silicon Valley Chapter. Vice President of Seminars Victoria Hyde-Dunn Visa Inc. vhydedun@visa.com 415-932-2119 Victoria Hyde-Dunn is Vice President of Investor Relations and Marketing Communications for Visa Inc., the world's largest retail electronic payments network. Prior to joining Visa, Victoria spent two years as Senior Manager of Investor Relations for McAfee, Inc., the world's largest dedicated security technology company. Prior to McAfee, Victoria served as Manager of Investor Relations for Providian Financial, one of the leading credit card issuers in the United States. Victoria spent six years at Providian Financial (acquired by Washington Mutual in October 2005), three of which as an integral member of the company's award-winning Investor Relations team. Earlier in her career, Victoria held various treasury, financial analyst and marketing roles with privately held multi-national firms. Victoria received a BA degree in Finance and MBA degrees in Marketing and E-business from the University of San Francisco. Victoria is a member of the NIRI San Francisco and Silicon Valley chapters. Victoria has served on the Board of Directors of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) Silicon Valley Chapter for two years, including her current role as VP Seminars. Vice President of Membership Hunter Landers Creative Strategy Group, Inc hlanders@csg-design.com 650-632-4370 Hunter Landers is the Vice President for Creative Strategy Group (CSG), a full service marketing communications agency. Hunter oversees CSG's Marketing Communications division, as well as the establishment and management of the firm's West Coast operations. In addition, he is responsible for new business development and client project coordination. Hunter brings more than 13 years of experience in the marketing communications fields, and has worked with clients ranging from IPO start-ups, to the Fortune 500 in a wide variety of sectors and industries. Prior to joining CSG, Hunter was Regional Vice President for a large national marketing communications agency specializing in annual report design and production. He was responsible for the establishment of the agency's West Coast business and built it into a multi-million dollar, multi-office division. Hunter began his career by founding, and managing a computer hardware reselling business in the greater Philadelphia area. Hunter has been a member of the National Investor Relations Institute for 12 years nationally, and is actively involved in both the San Francisco and Silicon Valley chapters. He has degrees in both Political Science and Logistics Management from Syracuse University. Director at Large Michelle Levine JDSU Michelle.levine@jdsu.com 408-546-4421 Michelle Levine is Director of Investor Relations at JDSU, a large cap technology company that enables broadband and optical innovation in the communications, commercial and consumer markets. Michelle was Director, Investor Relations at Juniper Networks, a leader in providing networking and security products to global service providers and enterprises from 2003-2007. Prior to Juniper, Michelle served as Director, West Coast Operations at Burns McClellan, Inc., an investor relations and public relations consulting firm. Prior to that Michelle was Director of Investor Relations at Aerogen, Inc., an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company. Michelle spent the initial years of her investor relations career as an investor relations consultant at Ketchum Public Relations in New York City. Before this, Michelle spent over 7 years working on Wall Street in various positions at Nomura Securities and Dean Witter Reynolds. Michelle holds an MBA in Finance from Pace University, New York, NY, and a BA from S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, Binghamton, N.Y. Michelle serves as Director at Large and most recently completed two terms as President of the Board of Directors of the NIRI Silicon Valley Chapter. Seminars Co-Chair Kelly McGeehan Ipreo Kelly.mcgeehan@ipreo.com 646-596-6748 AAs the Director of Corporate Services, Kelly McGeehan (formerly Kelly McPartland) is responsible for driving product strategy for Ipreo's suite of Investor Relationship Management solutions, managing third party relationships, and overseeing the establishment of Ipreo's West coast operations. Before joining Ipreo in 2007, Kelly had spent nearly 10 years in the Investor Relations services industry, most recently at Thomson Financial. While at Thomson she was responsible for developing services that helped companies fully disclose information, comply with regulations, and to effectively communicate with investors, media, and other constituents via the web. Prior to Thomson, Kelly managed Product Marketing for StreetFusion, a Webcasting and online calendaring services firm. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she received a B.A. in Mass Communications. Marketing and Communications Co-Chair Brenda Ropoulos Principal, Ropoulos & Associates bropoulos@ropoulos.com 510-783-1122 Brenda Ropoulos is the founder and principal of Ropoulos & Associates, a communications and investor relations consultancy that delivers the resources needed to accomplish an organization's communications initiatives. She is a creative, team-oriented professional with 25 years experience, delivering strategic programs for Public Relations, Investor Relations, and Marketing Communications. Brenda began her career in corporate incentive, trade show and special events management for Fortune 500 companies and honed her skills as a communicator in the decades that followed in diverse high tech industries in the Silicon Valley. As global communications manager at Coherent Medical Group, a division of Coherent, Inc., she developed a dynamic team of high energy pros that delivered a broad spectrum of communications programs across five medical specialties with widely diverse audiences, launching multiple new products each year. Her first investor relations stint began in 1998 with Network Equipment Technologies, where she also directed public/industry/ and analyst relations through the company's turn-around and new industry positioning. At Cloudmark, a private company, she developed and led the communications team to introduce new solutions to new markets, facilitating its position of global leader in those markets today. She has directed investor relations at Credence Systems Corporations since 2006. She founded Ropoulos & Associates in 2006, and has supported companies in the semiconductor, telecommunications, messaging security, and Internet market segments. Director at Large Peter Schuman Intel peter.schuman@intel.com 408-765-4524 Peter Schuman joined the investor relations department at Intel Corporation in September 2007. He is responsible for Midwest & Canada buyside, retail shareholders, the annual report and annual shareholder meeting. He recently re-designed INTC.com, Intel's IR website. Prior to Intel, Peter was the Director of Investor Relations and Public Relations at Coherent, Inc. He joined Coherent, Inc. in September of 1997 as Manager of the newly created Investor Relations Department. Prior to re-joining Coherent in April 2001, Peter served a six-month stint as Director, Investor Relations at Oplink Communications in San Jose, CA where he helped oversee that company's successful initial public offering in October 2000 and set up its investor relations program. Peter has also worked as a Marketing Director at The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. in Menlo Park, California and as a Compliance Examiner in the Enforcement Department of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. in Washington, D.C. He began his career as an auditor with Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s General Re unit in Stamford, Connecticut. Peter received an MBA in Investments & International Business in 1992 from Pace University in White Plains, New York and a BS in Finance from The University of Maryland in 1988. Peter has served on the NIRI Silicon Valley Chapter board for four years. Vice President of Board Affairs Brian Walton Marketwire bwalton@marketwire.com 415-343-3914 Brian Walton is a Regional Sales Manager with Marketwire, managing the Peninsula and Silicon Valley territories. Prior to joining Marketwire, Brian worked in sales for a San Francisco based Avaya Business Partner. Prior to that he served as the Marketing Coordinator for Cumulus Broadcasting of Santa Barbara where he handled promotional event planning for 3 radio stations. Brian holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Brian is currently the Seminars co-chair of the NIRI Silicon Valley Chapter and has served on the board for two years. Treasurer Sam Wolff Yahoo samwolff@yahoo-inc.com 408-349-5136 Sam Wolff is Senior Director of Investor Relations at Yahoo!, where he participates in all aspects of the company's investor relations program. Prior to joining Yahoo!'s IR group in early 2007, he managed various technical accounting matters at Yahoo! including M&A activity, stock compensation and complex commercial partnerships. Sam previously held financial management roles at Vail Resorts Inc. and Squaw Valley USA and was a manager in the audit and restructuring practices at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has an AB from Harvard University and an MBA from Indiana University and is a CPA. Return to Top >