# Team Category: Board Of Directors

## Wayne Rickard

**Board Director**  
Wayne is a storage industry veteran of 20+ years and a serial entrepreneur. He was formerly a VP of Seagate, an advisory board member to PMC-Sierra, as well as board member to Smarthome. Prior to that, he was co-founder/CTO of Gadzoox Networks where he participated in 4 separate public and private funding rounds, raising over $58M…

## Gopi Sirineni

**Board Director**  
Gopi is an industry veteran with 22+ years of extensive experience in the Semiconductor, Software, and Systems industry as a President & CEO, Vice President of Business Units, as well as Engineer. He is now a vice president of product management for the Connectivity Business Unit of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. In this role, he…

## Mark Vanderaar

**Board Director**  
Mark Vanderaan has over 26 years of entrepreneurial, management, investment, and engineering experience in technology-related businesses. He was the founder and CEO of Efficient Channel Coding (ECC) Inc., a company that developed error-correction technology IP for satellite communications. He led the company from its inception to its successful acquisition by ViaSat, Inc.. Mark has made…