Costa Mesa, Ca., USA - April 2, 2013, Costa Mesa, Ca., USA - Emulex Corporation, an IT company, announced that Gene Frantz and Greg Clark have been appointed to the Emulex board of directors.
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Mr. Frantz is a business executive with deep technology and telecom experience. He was most recently a partner of TPG Capital having worked there from 1999 to 2012, Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Frantz worked at Oracle Corporation and Morgan Stanley.
Mr. Frantz previously served on the boards of directors of ALLTEL, Avaya, Freescale Semiconductor, Network General, MEMC Electronic Materials, Paradyne Networks (acquired by Zhone Technologies), SMART Modular Technologies, Inc., and Certance Holdings (formerly a division of Seagate Technology acquired by Quantum Corp.).
Mr. Frantz received an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Clark has more than 23 years of leadership experience successfully growing technology companies through innovation, focus and execution. He has a strong operations and technology background that spans security, cloud services, supply chain and network management.
Mr. Clark has been CEO and member of the Board of Directors of Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (BCSI) since August 2011. Prior to joining Blue Coat, Mr. Clark was President and CEO of Mincom, a global software and services provider to asset-intensive industries. The company was acquired by the ABB Group in July 2011.
Before joining Mincom, Mr. Clark served as President and Chief Executive Officer at E2open, a leader in supply chain networks. Mr. Clark was one of E2open’s founders and transformed E2Open from an early startup into a market-leading solutions provider.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Clark founded security software firm Dascom. In 1999, IBM acquired the company, and the technology became the foundation for Tivoli's security product line.
At IBM, Mr. Clark was a Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of IBM's Tivoli Systems, where he was instrumental in defining and selling IBM security and management products. ■