Directors: Berlekamp, Rudd, Oliver, Burnett, Mark ...

Xamplify used to mention only Bob Burnett as the vice-chairman of its board. There is no mention of its chairman (am assuming it to be a caucasian male)or other members at that time. It used to concentrate on mentioning its advisors who were plentiful. After the middle of 2002, it has stopped mentioning its advisors and now its director list seems to be growing. Currently it lists 5 directors. I do hope it has more than 5 employees. On first glance, all directors seem to be close associates and friends overseeing their management friends which will assure harmonious functioning of the company. A friendly group of people indeed. (More on their relationships later.)

Directors: Andrew Rudd, Robert Oliver, Bob Burnett, Robert Mark ...

Andrew Rudd

Chairman, Xamplify Board of Directors. Andrew Rudd is Chairman of the Board of Barra, the leading provider of analytical software tools for asset managers and their clients. Previously, he served as CEO and President. He holds an MBA and Ph.D. in Operations Research at UC Berkeley.

Elwyn Berlekamp

Professor of Mathematics and EECS at U.C. Berkeley, Chairman, Internation Computer Science Institute Board of Directors and Vice-Chairman, Xamplify Board of Directors

Robert Oliver

Chairman of the Board, recently retired as Chairman of the Board of Fair Isaac Companies. He is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1961, was named Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering in 1964 and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in 1965, Director of the Operations Research Center in 1972, and Associate Dean, Research and Development in 1981. From 1985 to 1990, Dr. Oliver was Associate Dean, College of Engineering. He has also served as a Board Member and/or Officer of numerous professional organizations. Dr. Oliver holds a B.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London.

Robert Mark

President, Black Diamond Inc. and former Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, CIBC

Roger Strauch

Chairman of The Roda Group, a venture development company, based in Berkeley, California. He is the first CEO and the former chairman of Ask Jeeves, a leading provider of advanced search technologies and services. He is the former CEO of Symmetricom, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer.

Robert Burnett

Bob Burnett has more than thirty years' experience managing leading-edge technology projects. He was founding Vice President of Engineering for Cisco Systems, whose engineers he led in building the routers that made the Internet commercially viable. Burnett headed the first implementation of a complete COBOL compiler, and then the first commercial multiprocessor for Burroughs in the 1960s. He later managed the development of the first digital tester for VSLI chips at Fairchild and led the implementation team for Rolm/IBM's large scale digital branch exchange -- yet another first. Burnett continues to work as an entrepreneur with for-profit and non-profit enterprises. He sits on the board of Xamplify. Burnett is a graduate of Stanford University.