Leadership
Executive Officers
Leadership Team
Executive Officers Tom Lacey Mr. Lacey joined Phoenix as the President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, in February 2010. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Applied Materials’ SunFab Thin Film Solar Products since 2009, where he was responsible for all aspects of the turnkey solar thin-film production business. Prior to Applied Materials, from 2006 to 2007, Mr. Lacey was President of Flextronics International’s Components Group, an 8,000 employee division that designs and sells display, power system and camera cell phone modules. Mr. Lacey joined Flextronics in connection with the successful $300 million sale to Flextronics of International Display Works (IDW), a developer of LCD displays, where he served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from 2004 to 2006. While at IDW, Mr. Lacey drove significant revenue and profitability growth and increased the market capitalization of IDW by approximately 6 times following a successful listing on NASDAQ.  Robert Andersen Mr. Andersen joined the Company in September 2008 as Vice President of Finance and was appointed Chief Financial Officer in June 2010. Prior to joining Phoenix, Mr. Andersen spent six years in various senior financial roles at Wind River Systems, Inc., a leading embedded systems software company. Prior to Wind River, he was the Finance Director at NextOffice, Inc., a privately-held technology company. Mr. Andersen began his finance career at Hewlett-Packard Company where, during his seven year tenure, he served in various controller, treasury, and technology finance management roles. Mr. Andersen holds a bachelor of arts in Economics from the University of California at Davis and a Masters in Business Administration from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, and is a Certified Management Accountant.  David Gibbs Mr. Dave Gibbs is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Field Operations at Phoenix. Prior to Phoenix, Mr. Gibbs served as Vice president, sales and Asia Pacific strategic accounts manager at FlashPoint Technologies, a company that provides embedded software solutions. Before FlashPoint, Mr. Gibbs was vice president of sales at DocuMagix, Inc. and he also held a number of executive sales and business development positions at Insignia Solutions. Mr. Gibbs holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.  Timothy Chu Timothy Chu is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to Phoenix, Mr. Chu served as Director of Corporate Legal Affairs at Solectron Corporation, a leading global provider of supply chain and electronics manufacturing solutions, where he was responsible for corporate governance and securities matters and all acquisition, divestiture and other corporate transactions. Prior to Solectron, he was a Senior Attorney at Venture Law Group, where he represented numerous Silicon Valley technology companies and was a member of the firm's mergers and acquisitions group. Mr. Chu began his legal career as an associate in the New York and Helsinki offices of White & Case LLP, where he focused on banking, public offering and private placement transactions. He received his B.A. in Economics and Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Leadership Team Kelly Wu Kelly Wu joined Phoenix as Vice President and General Manager of Phoenix Greater China, Chairman of Phoenix’s Greater China Management Council and Vice President of Global Embedded Sales & Marketing in April 2010. Prior to joining Phoenix, Ms. Wu was President of BCM Embedded Computer Inc. and Vice President of Advansus Corporation since 2008. Both companies are subsidiaries of Advantech Co., Ltd. In her managerial role with Advantech Co., Ms. Wu’s achievements include significant revenue growth and extensive and creating highly effective marketing channels for BCM. From 2004 to 2008, Ms. Wu was Sales VP for VIA Technologies, Inc. During her 4 years in VIA, she expanded VIA CPU business in PC market and won projects from major brands and ODMs such as HP, IBM, Lenovo, Samsung, Packard-Bell, Medion, Asustek, Chinghwa Tongfang, Quanta, Inventec, and others. Prior to VIA Technologies, Ms. Wu enjoyed a 16 year career with Intel, starting as a customer support representative, then advancing through a number of positions of increasing responsibility to be country manager for Intel Taiwan from 2000 to 2004 responsible for sales, distribution and business management. Ms. Wu graduated from National Chengchi University's department of statistics.  Apu Kumar Apurva (Apu) Kumar is the Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Phoenix Technologies. In this role, Apu and his team are at the forefront of driving the core product strategy, marketing initiatives, and “Beyond-the-Core” innovative solutions to meet the diverse needs of worldwide OEM and ODM customers, partners, distributors and resellers.  Surendra Arora Mr. Arora is Vice President of Business Development at Phoenix Technologies. He has extensive experience in market and business development both for consumer and enterprise technologies. Most recently, Mr. Arora was Director of Enterprise Solution Sales and World Ahead Program for Intel in South Asia. This sales group influenced over $300 million in revenue and forged alliances with ISVs, SIs, OEMs, and service providers. Prior to the Intel South Asia position, Mr. Arora led the world-wide market development team in Intel, evangelizing Centrino mobile technology in the telecom channel. His team successfully negotiated WiFi and WWAN service bundles with telecom operators worldwide. Mr. Arora holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Rensselaer and an M.B.A from UC Berkeley/London Business School.  Stephen Jones Mr. Steve Jones is Chief Technology Officer at Phoenix Technologies. In this role, Mr. Jones leads Phoenix's SecureCore Tiano technology research and development, and also long-range research in emerging technologies. Prior to Phoenix, Mr. Jones founded General Software and grew it to a $20M business over 19 years, without outside debt or equity financing. General Software engaged manufacturers of electronic devices containing embedded computers, providing them with system software solutions in a wide range of application areas. In 2008, Mr. Jones sold General Software to Phoenix Technologies Ltd. He is a professional technologist, having developed 29 commercial software products. Mr. Jones’ software can be found in computer systems running metro-area networks; routers, gateways and network appliances in enterprise and home networks; cell phones and PDAs; entertainment systems; FlexGo computers; desktop, laptop, server, and ultra mobile PCs; medical equipment; commercial aircraft; the space shuttle, military applications, and embedded devices.  Srinivas Raman Srinivas K Raman has extensive global business, management and technology experience in the development and marketing of semiconductors, systems and software. He has founded, grown and led small and large product development teams at multiple locations in the US and managed many teams abroad in China, India, Taiwan & Europe. During his long career with Intel he served in a variety of technical and managerial roles and made key contributions to the architectural definition, development and verification of many innovative products including the Pentium®II and Pentium®III microprocessors, low power multi-core server CPUs and microcontrollers. He established and led processor development activities in India and also played a key role in the formation and growth of processor development activities in Folsom. He has worked with Intel end customers in architecting products and solutions and with fellow travelers in driving product ecosystems. Srinivas was most recently, Corporate Vice-President at Cadence responsible for managing the entire product portfolio of the Cadence Virtuoso® Custom/Mixed-Signal Platform. In that role, he led the definition, development, operations and customer adoption of multiple next generation application software (design automation) products used by semiconductor companies worldwide.  John Correia Mr. John Correia is Vice President, Worldwide Services at Phoenix. Mr. Correia also heads up Worldwide Customer Engineering at the company. Previously, Mr. Correia was Vice President of Strategic Services at Coware, the leading supplier of electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services. At CoWare, Mr. Correia had worldwide responsibility for all strategic consulting services and projects for Tier 1 customers. Prior to his 10-year tenure at CoWare, Mr. Correia was at Core Petrophysics (formerly K&A Laboratories before acquisition by Core Labs) for 12 years with responsibility for special core analyses services. Mr. Correia has a BS in Petroleum Geology from Tulsa University and an MS in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State University.  Eric Newman Mr. Eric Newman is General Manager and Vice President of Sales for the Americas and EMEA. He also heads up worldwide sales for Phoenix’s Embedded business. Before Phoenix technologies, Mr. Newman was Vice President of WW Sales and Market Development for BDMetrics. Prior to BDMetrics, he has held senior sales and business development positions for both private and public companies in areas such as security, wireless, disaster recovery, and core systems software, including his own company, LawConnect, Inc., which was acquired in 2000 by Sinar Mas Group. Mr. Newman began his career as an attorney in the Bay Area, trying catastrophic injury cases, ultimately making the transition to counsel commercial clients on business issues including intellectual property, contract, ownership, and employment. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona.  Babak Dehnad Mr. Babak Dehnad is the Vice President of Human Resources at Phoenix Technologies responsible for global HR functions at multiple locations in the US, Taiwan, China, Korea, Japan and India. Mr. Dehnad brings more than 15 years of global HR experience to the Company. Prior to Phoenix, he was Director of HR at MySQL, the leading open source database company. During his tenure, MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems for $1B in 2008. Before MySQL, Mr. Dehnad was the Worldwide Director of HR at Taleo Corporation, the leading talent management software company which had a successful IPO in 2005. He also held progressive HR leadership positions at Zambeel and Inovis, both software companies in the Bay Area. Mr. Dehnad received a BS degree in Economics from UC Davis. |