Biography
Jack has over 30 years of Silicon Valley experience with a focus on finance and operations. He has served in executive leadership roles at GoPro, Qualcomm, Atheros, NetRatings, Apptitude, and Electronics for Imaging. He was part of teams that took four of these companies public and CFO for 3 of the IPOs. In his operating and Board of Director roles, Jack has been part of over $30 billion in M&A, divestiture, equity, and debt transactions, completed six additional IPOs, one spin-out and been part of a successful activist defense as a Board member.
Jack is currently on the Boards of Astera Labs (ALAB), Box (BOX), Global Foundries (GFS) and Resideo (REZI). He also consults with a variety of private companies including Tonal where he is Chairman of the Board. He is a board member for the Northern California chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), Natcast, a non-profit entity dedicated to promoting semiconductor R&D in the United States and on the Advisory Board for the Accounting department at Santa Clara University. Additionally, Jack serves as an advisor to Boston Consulting Group, Form Energy, NETGEAR and Preply and was previously an advisor to Druva.
He was previously on the Boards of several acquired companies including TubeMogul (IPO 2014/sold to Adobe in 2016), eero (sold to Amazon in March 2019), Quantenna (IPO 2016/sold to onSemiconductor in 2019), Mellanox (sold to NVIDIA in 2020), Casper Sleep (IPO 2020/sold to Durational Capital in 2022) and Tile (sold to Life360 in 2022). He served for nine years on the Boards of Silicon Labs (SLAB) during which they split the company and sold its infrastructure and automotive business to Skyworks for $2.75 billion and its market capitalization increased over 400% and ThredUP for eight years, including during its 2021 IPO. Jack was part of Box’s successful activism defense against Starboard Value. He was also an advisor to Silver Peak Systems (sold to HPE) and Luxtera (sold to Cisco in 2019).
He earned a B.S.c with an emphasis in accounting from Santa Clara University (1987) and is a certified public accountant (inactive). He has previously been named a Top 100 Director by NACD and CFO of the Year by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
