Board of Directors
Kim Jones
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Scott McNealy
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Phil Lebherz
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Juan Carlos Soto
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Bill Raduchel
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Larry Nelson
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Gene Banman
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Geoff Emery
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Gil Brady
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Jonathan Brusco
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Fred Killen
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Scott N. Flanders
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Kim Jones
Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and former Chief Executive Officer
Kim is a recognized leader in the world of technology where she has extensive international experience in technology and education. She spent over 20 year at Sun Microsystems where she held a number of leadership positions. She was the President and Managing Director of Sun UK and Ireland where she managed a P&L of over $1B. She also built and led Sun’s first independent Global Line of Business for Education, Government, and Healthcare.
She has served on a number of boards – private, public and non-profit, including as Chairman of Curriki. She served on the John Wiley and Sons board for a number of years during which time she chaired Governance for five years. She also was on the board of Medirom, a privately held Japanese company that recently went public on NASDAQ. She currently sits on the Cornerstone on Demand Foundation Board of Directors and previously was a member of the MIT Open
CourseWare Advisory Council, the Confederation of British Industry, the UK Corporate Leadership Group, Western Governors University Board of Trustees, the Jason Foundation for Education, and the World Bank Institute Advisory Board.
Kim has received numerous awards and recognition throughout her career including the prestigious YWCA Award for Women in Business, the Sun Microsystems Leadership Award, and was inducted into the Women in Technology Hall International Hall of Fame. Kim has an honorary PHD from University of Edinburgh, and graduated from the University of California, San Diego where she was named as one of their 50 Years, 50 leaders honorees.
Scott McNealy
Co-Founder
Scott McNealy, Co-Founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and served as CEO and Chairman of the Board for 22 years during which he piloted the company from startup to legendary Silicon Valley giant in computing infrastructure, network computing, and open-source software. Under his watch, Sun Microsystems employed approximately 235,000 worldwide. Sun was sold to Oracle in 2010 for $7.4 billion.
Scott McNealy is an outspoken advocate for personal liberty, small government, and free-market competition.
Phil Lebherz
Philip Lebherz has been described as a consummate family man, an innovative businessman, and a serial entrepreneur. Whichever you prefer, Phil can certainly be described as a renaissance man. His personal and professional story has left a rather noticeable impact on the California landscape. He took both LISI, a premier medical insurance distributor, and CoPower, a billing consolidation admin and marketing firm, from a vision to fruition over the last 30 years. These companies currently represent the most prominent benefits insurance carriers in the U.S. He recently sold them to AmWINS, the largest distributor of wholesale insurance products in America.
Juan Carlos Soto
Juan Carlos Soto serves on the board of various venture-backed companies, including Chairman of Vaadin, Inc, an Open Source Java Developer Tools company, and is a Venture Partner at Shasta Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. He is a former Vice President of IBM Cloud Integration where he led several functional areas including Engineering, Product Management, Professional Services, and Customer Support. He joined IBM with their acquisition of StrongLoop, Inc., a leader in Open Source, Node.js technology for enterprises, where he served as CEO. Prior to StrongLoop, he was SVP and General Manager at Informatica where he led multiple businesses units including Informatica Cloud, a pioneer in B2B Enterprise SaaS. Prior to Informatica, Juan Carlos held several executive positions at Sun Microsystems including member of the Executive Management Group, CTO of Software, Vice President of Advanced Technologies and User Experience, Vice President of Cloud Computing and Developer Products, and Vice President of Market Development. He started his career at Hewlett Packard building scientific instrumentation and founded or held leadership positions in several startups including Skipstone Ventures and Diba, Inc.
Juan Carlos is passionate about helping entrepreneurs throughout the concept-to-exit journey, drawing from his experience across multiple functional areas leading large and small high-tech organizations. He has volunteered with several youth educations, development organizations including Junior Achievement / Project Business, Special Olympics, Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA), Build.org, Big Brothers, and Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) athletics. He profoundly believes access to education is key to reaching one’s professional and personal potential and credits his career accomplishments to education, hard work, and luck. He holds an MS in Engineering Management from Stanford, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida.
Bill Raduchel
William J. Raduchel has over 50 years of experience with systems, software, and networks and has had a long career mixing technology, education and media. He has long experience and expertise in corporate governance. Raduchel joined AOL in September 1999 from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he was chief strategy officer and a member of its executive committee. In his eleven years at Sun, he also served as chief information officer, chief financial officer, acting vice president of human resources and vice president of corporate planning and development and oversaw relationships with the major Japanese partners. There he was recognized separately as CIO of the year and as best CFO in the computer industry. In addition, he has held senior executive roles at Xerox Corporation and McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Larry Nelson
Larry Nelson leads Microsoft’s Worldwide Education Partner strategy within its Public Sector Business Unit, for both Primary/Secondary and Higher Education. Previous to this role, Nelson led Microsoft’s Worldwide Primary/Secondary Education strategy. Prior to joining Microsoft, Nelson led strategic planning of telecom services for the University Librarian at Stanford University, and before that, he was a Director at Sun Microsystems where he also served as acting Executive Director of the Global Education & Learning Community (GELC, now known as Curriki) where he managed the creation of GELC as an independent nonprofit corporation. Nelson is Secretary and Treasurer of the Curriki Board of Directors and a past member of the NEA Foundation Board of Directors, SIF Executive Board, and SPA Education Board. He earned a Masters in business administration from Cornell University and a Bachelor’s degree from Vassar College.
Gene Banman
Gene, now retired, has been a serial CEO for the past 20 years having been at the helm of four companies. NetContinuum developed an application layer firewall appliance for large enterprise and web businesses and was sold to Barracuda Networks. Zero Motorcycles is the leading electric motorcycle in the world and Gene remains on their Board of Directors. ClearPower Systems designed a waste heat recovery electric power generation system and was sold to Questor Technologies. DriveScale made data center management software and was sold to Twitter. Prior to his entrepreneurial activities, Gene was a member of the senior management team at Sun Microsystems and was Sr. Vice President/General Manager of the $3 billion/year Desktop Systems group.
Geoff Emery
After working for five years at major law firms in New York and California, Geoff Emery purchased a failing luxury car dealership in Beverly Hills, California, and later purchased other similarly non performing businesses. Twenty-five years later, Beverly Hills Porsche and Santa Monica Audi are now two of the largest luxury car dealerships in the United States, collectively grossing over $300 million in revenue in 2015.
Gil Brady
Currently, President at Nativity Prep Academy of San Diego, Brady is an experienced Partner with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. Skilled in Educational Leadership, Executive Development, Business Planning, Sales, Organizational Learning, and Training Delivery. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Doctor of Education (EdD) focused in Executive Leadership from The George Washington University.
Jonathan Brusco
Jonathan Brusco has sixteen years of experience in a variety of education-focused roles. He currently serves as the Director of Instructional Technology & Maker Education at Pinewood School in Los Altos, CA, where he leads technology integration efforts and manages the K-12 Coding and Maker Education programs across their three campuses. He also serves on the Board of Trustees at Gavilan College, a Bay Area community college with 9,000 students as well as an on-site top-performing dual enrollment high school. He has held this elected office since 2012 and has served terms as Vice President and President of the Board.
Fred Killeen
Before his retirement from General Motors in June of 2023, Fred Killeen was Vice President, Global Information Technology and Chief Information Officer responsible for enabling IT assets and solutions across the enterprise in support of the company’s overall global business.
Prior to that, Killeen was GM’s Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer for the company’s Global IT organization. He was responsible for the company’s Global Information Security and IT Risk Management programs. He served as CTO starting in 2005.
Killeen joined GM in March 2001 as director of systems integration for Global Product Development and was appointed to the role of director, Systems Development Factory, in December 2003. He also led teams responsible for enterprise end user solutions and GM IT’s emerging technology and innovation team during his career at GM.
Before GM, Killeen held a variety of technical consulting and leadership positions during 16 years with Hewlett-Packard. Prior to Hewlett-Packard, he was a software developer at Motorola.
Killeen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and sits on the Advisory Board for the Oakland University School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Scott N. Flanders
Scott Flanders is an experienced CEO, investor and corporate director with over 35 years of leadership experience across major media, e-commerce and healthcare companies. He served as CEO of numerous companies including eHealth, Freedom Communications and Columbia House. Earlier in his career, he rose to President of Macmillan Publishing and led for 10 years in this role. Flanders began as a CPA and tax consultant at Price Waterhouse. He holds a JD from Indiana University and a BA in Economics from the University of Colorado. Flanders currently serves on the boards of numerous public and private companies as well as non-profit organizations.
