Our Executives

Our executives are not the American equivalent of salarymen whose priority is a stable paycheck. Their mission in life is not to be managing a division of a corporation. They are entrepreneurs who have either chosen to leave a corporate safe haven to build a business or who were never there in the first place. They are—to a greater or lesser degree—outsiders with eclectic histories. A small sampling:

• A first generation son of immigrants who put himself through UCLA and joined Solectron in 1975 when it had $200 million in revenues. When he left as global head of Sales and Marketing to become CEO of Oncore, our contract electronic manufacturing company, revenues were $18 billion.
• A board certified psychiatrist, former lecturer at Harvard and owner of several car dealerships who built from scratch the largest chain of psychiatric clinics in the country–later sold to GTCR for $250 million. He was also a pioneer of the managed behavioral care industry. In 2006, he joined us as CEO in 2006 to co-found our addiction treatment company.
• A former NFL football player with a degree in physics who was a starting middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears, and who became the COO of EMC, the largest data storage company in the world, before joining our high performance computing project as CEO.
• A salesman for a small printed circuit board manufacturer in San Jose who one day announced he was leaving to buy a tiny, money losing PCB plant, convinced his boss to back him with shoestring capital, and later built it to over $400 million in sales and $140 million in EBITDA with the backing of Celerity and Bain Capital.

These are people with very different personal and professional histories. They have, however, one thing in common: a better alternative, and the passion, the discipline and the force of personality to bring it to reality.