Kathleen M. Holmgren
Since 2008, Ms Holmgren has served as a Principal of Sage Advice Partners, a management consulting firm specializing in the high-tech and green-tech markets. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for two public companies, Extreme Networks and Calavo Growers, both with over $1B in revenues. She is the Chairman of the Board for Group Delphi, a privately-held exhibits design company and serves on the Board of Directors of two other privately-held companies, Automation Anywhere, a robotic process automation software company, and Fresh Realm, a cloud-based platform company focused on the ordering and delivery of fresh, perishable foods. In 2013, Kathleen joined Automation Anywhere as their Chief Operating Officer and helped the company through its explosive growth till 2018 when she left to join the Board. Ms. Holmgren previously served Director with the Alliance of CEOs and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mendocino Software. Kathleen spent over 20 years at Sun Microsystems, in increasingly senior roles, finally as Senior Vice President/GM, Disk Systems Business. Ms. Holmgren holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from California Polytechnic State University and an M.B.A from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Ms. Holmgren has a history of executive leadership in the storage, computer systems, enterprise software and management consulting industries and brings operational expertise, strategic planning, as well as risk assessment and planning experience to our Board.