Santa Clara University

Robert J. Finocchio, Jr. is a corporate director, private investor, part-time professor, and consultant. Since September 2000 Mr. Finocchio has been a dean’s executive professor at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business. He currently is a director at Altera Corporation (Lead independent director, Nominating and Governance Committee Chair, member Audit Committee), and Echelon Corporation (Lead independent director, Audit Committee Chair), and at CaseCentral and Silver-Peak (private companies). 

From August 1997 to September 2000 he served as Chairman of the Board of Informix Corporation, an information management software company, From July 1997 until July 1999, Mr. Finocchio served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Informix. From December 1988 until May 1997, Mr. Finocchio was employed with 3Com Corporation where he held various positions, most recently serving as President, 3Com Systems. Prior to 3Com he spent nine years at ROLM Corporation. 

Mr. Finocchio is chair of the Board of Trustees at of Santa Clara University and a venture partner at Advanced Technology Ventures. Mr. Finocchio holds a B.S. (magna cum laude) in economics from Santa Clara University and an M.B.A. (Baker Scholar, with high distinction) from the Harvard Business School.

Today there is more computing power in your cell phone than NASA had when it first put a man on the moon. And that’s thanks in large part to the work of entrepreneurs right here in Silicon Valley—a place journalist Michael S. Malone has described as a “little collection of suburban towns that changed history.” But he says it’s more than just a place; it’s a state of mind. And its way of thinking is changing the globe.
 

Malone was the nation’s first daily high-tech reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, which he joined in 1980. He covered the rise of Silicon Valley and has chronicled its transformation. In recent years, he’s had a front-row look at how social entrepreneurs around the world have begun to harness the same creativity and drive.

Raised in Sunnyvale, he graduated from Santa Clara in 1975 and received his MBA in 1977. Malone has written for the New York Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He was editor at-large for Forbes ASAP, the world’s largest circulation business/tech magazine, and currently writes the weekly “Silicon Insider” column for ABCNews.com. Malone has hosted three public television series and was co-producer of the Emmy-nominated “The New Heroes,” a PBS miniseries about social entrepreneurship. He is also a Distinguished Friend and Honorary Fellow of Oxford University.
From his classic Silicon Valley history The Big Score to his latest book, Bill and Dave, the definitive history of William Hewlett and David Packard, Malone continues to capture the spirit of entrepreneurship of Silicon Valley.
 

Jill C. Vialet is the founder and president of Playworks. Vialet has worked for more than 20 years in the nonprofit sector, during which she focused her entrepreneurial skills of conceiving of and growing two successful nonprofit organizations.

Vialet launched Playworks (then known as Sports4Kids) in 1996 with two schools in Berkeley, California. Currently the organization brings play and physical activities to low-income, urban schools in 10 cities: Baltimore, Boston, Los Angeles, Newark, New Orleans, Oakland, Portland, San Francisco, San Jose and Washington, D.C. with the ultimate goal of serving more than 100,000 children on a daily basis. Playworks expects to expand its reach to provide safe and healthy recess and playtime to 125,000 students at 300 low-income schools across 27 cities in the United States over the next three years.

Prior to Playworks, Vialet founded the Museum of Children’s Art (mocha) in Oakland, California. She served as the executive director at mocha for nine years, ultimately expanding its programs to reach 20,000 young people each year.

Vialet graduated from Harvard University where she studied medical sociology, played rugby, and became actively involved with Harvard’s service-learning community. Vialet served as the director of Harvard’s Public Service Program during the 1986-87 school year. In 1996 she was awarded Radcliffe’s Jane Rainie Opel Award for achievement by a young alumna.

Vialet was a Eureka Fellow from 2000 to 2001 and in 2004 she was selected as an Ashoka Fellow. She is currently on the board of directors at mocha and a member of the advisory board for the University of California Berkeley’s Principal Leadership Institute. She plays actively by running and mountain biking, among other outdoor activities.
 

Dan Warmenhoven is chairman of the Board of Directors and executive chairman of NetApp. In his role, Warmenhoven is responsible for building and expanding NetApp’s relationships with key strategic partners, including service providers and technology partners, and is a member of NetApp’s strategic planning and development team.

Previously, Warmenhoven served as chief executive officer of NetApp from 2005 to 2009 and president and CEO from 1994 to 2005. Under Warmenhoven's leadership, NetApp grew to become a multibillion-dollar company and a recognized market leader in networked storage, a concept the company pioneered. Warmenhoven led the company's initial public offering in November 1995.

Today, NetApp is ranked #1 on FORTUNE magazine’s "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" list and has ranked in the top 50 on this prestigious list for the past seven years. NetApp is also included in FORTUNE magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies" and "America's Largest Corporations" lists as well as in Forbes magazine's "400 Best Big Companies in America" list. NetApp is included in both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes.

In August 2009, Warmenhoven received the Morgan Stanley Leadership Award for Global Commerce. He is a director of Bechtel Group, Inc. and Aruba Networks, Inc. Warmenhoven is also vice chairman of the board of the Tech Museum of Innovation as well as a trustee of Bellarmine College Preparatory, both in San Jose, California. In June 2007, Warmenhoven received an honorary degree from Santa Clara University for his dedication to global business and technology leadership and in 2006 was named one of the "50 Most Powerful People in Networking" by Network World. In 2004, he won the prestigious "National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year" award, and in 2001 BusinessWeek named Warmenhoven one of its "Top 25 Managers" for the year.

Previously, Warmenhoven served as chairman, president, and CEO of Network Equipment Technologies (N.E.T.), a telecommunications manufacturer. He is a veteran of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), where he held senior management positions, including general manager of the Information Networks group. Prior to working at HP, Warmenhoven was employed for 13 years at IBM Corporation.

Warmenhoven holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, with honors, from Princeton University.