Patriot Scientific Management
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Mar 30, 2008 06:00AM
Rick Goerner has extensive experience as an operating manager and CEO with technology companies on a global scale. He served as President and COO of the Storage Products Group of Texas Instruments, a one billion dollar supplier of mixed signal and analog ICs for the hard disk drive market. Previously, Goerner served as President and CEO of TransDimension Inc, an Irvine, California based, venture-financed, technology start-up company providing embedded Universal Serial Bus (USB) silicon and software solutions to a global customer base. TransDimension was acquired by Oxford Semiconductor in 2005. Goerner has recently been involved in the development of other early stage technology companies, serving as a Technical Advisor, as Executive Chairman, as a member of the Board of Directors and in the capacity of Interim President and CEO.
Cliff Flowers, Chief Financial Officer, joined Patriot in September 2007 and is responsible for the day-to-day accounting and finance activities, planning, treasury, legal and general services for the company. Most recently, Cliff was Interim CFO for BakBone Software Inc., a developer of software solutions focused on data protection and business continuity. Prior to joining BakBone, Cliff served as senior vice president of finance and operations and CFO for Financial Profiles, Inc., a developer of software for the financial planning industry. Prior to joining Financial Profiles, Cliff served as CFO of Xifin, Inc., a provider of hosted software services to the commercial laboratory marketplace. Before coming to Xifin, Cliff served for nine years in positions of increasing responsibility at Previo, Inc., a developer and marketer of various PC and server-based products, including backup and business continuity offerings. As CFO of Previo, Cliff's global responsibilities included all financial operations and legal affairs. He earlier served as an audit manager with Price Waterhouse, LLP. Cliff is a graduate of San Diego State University with a B.S. summa cum laude in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting and holds a CPA license in California.
Bibeau comes to Patriot Scientific with more than 28 years experience in the electronics industry, nearly 24 of those years in management of design, marketing and operations. Prior to his appointment at Patriot Scientific, Bibeau served as corporate vice president of marketing and then senior vice president and general manger of the Integrated Products Division at the NASDAQ-listed Microsemi. At Microsemi, Bibeau was responsible for the growth and expansion of the IC division, formerly Linfinity Microelectronics, to its leading market position in several industries, including TV, notebook, and automotive LCD display controllers; WLAN power amplifiers; and power management products for the storage and handheld markets.
Bibeau spent nine years in various marketing director roles for the Storage Products Group of Texas Instruments, formerly Silicon Systems. There he was responsible for the development of new business opportunities in hard disk drives, removable storage products and emerging networking markets. Before his employment at Silicon Systems, Bibeau spent 13 years at Hughes Aircraft in various design and engineering R&D management roles. He holds a BSEE from the University of Lowell in Massachusetts and an MBA in Business Management from the Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management.
Dr. Helmut Falk has been a Director since 1997. From 1992 until 2000, Dr. Falk served as the Director of Anesthesia of, and served on the medical executive committee for, the Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin, Indiana. Since 2000, Dr. Falk has worked at St. Francis Hospital in Mooresville, Indiana has a staff anesthesiologist and has been Chairman of its Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. Dr. Falk received his D.O. from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in 1987 and his B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Irvine in 1983. Dr. Falk is the son of the late Helmut Falk, Sr., who was the sole shareholder of nanoTronics and Chairman and CEO of Patriot Scientific until his death in July 1995. Dr. Falk is also an heir to the Helmut Falk Estate, which is the beneficial owner of the Company's shares held by the Helmut Falk Family Trust.
Gloria Felcyn was first appointed a Director in 2002 and is the Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. Ms. Felcyn is a Certified Public Accountant and has been the principal in her own public accounting firm in Saratoga, California, since 1982. Prior to establishing her own firm, she was employed by Main Hurdman & Cranston 1969 through 1970 and at Price Waterhouse & Co, in the San Francisco and New York offices from 1970 through 1976. Subsequent to that, Ms. felcyn worked in the field of offshore tax planning with a major real estate syndication company. Ms. Felcyn received a B.S. degree in Business Economics from Trinity University in 1968 and is a member of the American Institute of CPA's.
Carlton M. Johnson has served as a Director of since 2001, and is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board. Mr. Johnson currently serves as legal counsel for Roswell Capital Partners, LLC and has served as legal counsel for Equiplace Securities, LLC (formerly Swartz Investments, LLC) since 1996. Mr. Johnson is an active member of the Alabama State Bar, the Florida Bar and the State Bar of Georgia. He has been a member of the Florida law firm of Smith, Sauer, DeMaria & Johnson and Vice President and President-Elect of the 600 member Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association. Mr. Johnson earned his degree with high honors in History/Political Science at Auburn University and his JD degree, also with high honors, at Samford University - Cumberland School of Law. Mr. Johnson also serves on the board of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded company.
Nick Tredennick has been a Director of the Company since August 2007. Since 1989, Dr. Tredennick has been the Chief Technical Officer of Tredennick, Inc., a technology consulting firm. Dr. Tredennick was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to microprocessor design. While at Motorola (now Freescale), he designed the microprocessor that became the central processor for the original Apple Macintosh. Dr. Tredennick also designed a System/370 microprocessor as a research staff member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Tredennick was chief scientist at Altera, a programmable logic company and has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Tredennick has been on the editorial advisory board for several technical publications including IEEE Spectrum and Microprocessor Report. He has been a founder and director of several companies, including Pacific Fiberoptics and NexGen Microsystems (later acquired by AMD) and Tredennick, Inc. Dr. Tredennick has written a textbook and more than sixty technical papers and has nine patents. Dr. Tredennick has a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Texas and was a registered professional engineer for many years.