Extreme Networks

Ms. Burton is a proven marketing and business leader with more than 30 years of experience building brands, creating demand, and growing businesses for both established technology innovators and industry pioneers. She is presently the Chief Marketing Officer at H2O.ai, a leader in open-source AI and machine learning, and comes to Extreme after serving on the Board of Directors at Aerohive. Prior to joining H2O.ai, she was CMO at Hortonworks, where she drove a brand and marketing transformation and created ecosystem programs that positioned the company for growth. At SAP, she co-created the Cloud strategy, led HANA and Analytics marketing, and drove developer outreach. She also served as CMO at Silver Spring Networks and Plantronics after a 20-year career at Sun Microsystems, where she held several leadership roles, including head of marketing for the company and driving the company and Java brand, global citizenship, championing open source initiatives, and leading product and strategic marketing teams.

Ms. Burton has also advised several Silicon Valley startups. She has driven strategies for market and technology trends including AI and machine learning, Java and HANA technologies, SaaS, cloud computing, open-source, internet of things (IoT), community engagement, and big data that have had an impact on the technology landscape at large.

She has received numerous awards and recognition including the Silicon Valley TWIN award. She has a BA in Math with a concentration in Computer Science from San Jose State University. Ms. Burton has served as a Board Advisor to DriveScale, a cloud infrastructure provider, since 2016.

An accomplished industry leader with a successful track record in corporate finance, internal controls, and business strategy, Mr. Khanna joined our Board in December of 2014. He most recently served as vice president of corporate audit for Qualcomm, Inc. Mr. Khanna’s thirty plus years of experience spans leading high technology companies including Qualcomm, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox. Throughout his career, As chairman of the Audit Committee, Mr. Khanna has been instrumental in leading finance and internal audit teams, including the establishment of financial controls and processes, delivering financial investment and M&A guidance, and providing strategy and direction to business model changes.

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.

Mr. Kennedy brings over thirty years of global executive leadership experience in leading-edge firms. Mr. Kennedy has served on our Board since April 2011. Recently, Mr. Kennedy was CEO of CENX, a leader in service orchestration solutions for software-defined and virtualized networks before the company was acquired by LM Ericsson in 2018. Prior to CENX, Mr. Kennedy was CEO of Tollgrade Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:TLGD), a telecommunication and smart grid company from 2010-2017 which he took private to Golden Gate Capital. Mr. Kennedy also served as the CEO of Rivulet Communications, a medical video networking company, President of Tellabs North American Operations and Executive Vice President and co-founded Ocular Networks, a provider of next-generation optical networking technologies, until it was acquired by Tellabs. Earlier in his career, he held executive positions at leading telecom equipment companies, including Alcatel and Newbridge Networks. Mr. Kennedy was also a Venture Partner at Columbia Capital, a private equity investment firm advising investments into new and existing portfolio companies. Mr. Kennedy also served on the Board of Directors for Visual Networks ((NASDAQ:VNWK) acquired by Danaher), Hatteras Networks, Imagine Communications, Avizia a healthcare technology company and is currently on the Board of Trustees of Flint Hill School in Oakton, Va. Mr. Kennedy holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Mr. Carinalli has served on our Board since October 1996. Mr. Carinalli has held numerous executive roles in technology companies various positions for National Semiconductor, Inc., a publicly traded company, most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, and as a Board member of the Board of Directors of Fairchild Semiconductor. Mr. Carinalli also has served on the Boards of Directors of private companies.

Mr. Shoemaker brings four decades of experience in high technology to Extreme Networks, where he has served on our Board since October, 2007. Prior to serving on our Board, Mr. Shoemaker held various executive management positions at Sun Microsystems from 1990 through 2004 including executive vice president, Worldwide Operations, and Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Computer Systems Division. Previously, Mr. Shoemaker served in a number of senior executive positions with Xerox Corporation including Senior Vice President, World-Wide Marketing. Mr. Shoemaker holds a bachelor’s degree from Hanover College, where he is currently on the Board of Trustees. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Indiana University Kelley Business School where he is a member of the School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council and was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2019, Informatics, Computing and Engineering School Dean’s Advisory Council, and the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship Board. He is also the Principal Director of the Indiana University Foundation. Mr. Shoemaker completed Ph.D. coursework at the Indiana University School of Government and has served on the boards of various private and not-for-profit entities. In 2019 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Indiana University. He also is very active in various philanthropic efforts including UCSF cancer research, El Camino Hospital’s behavioral health program, Stanford international graduate student assistance, Foothill College Entrepreneurship Center support, Monterey Bay Aquarium and others. Mr. Shoemaker was a member of the Board of Directors of Altera Inc. from 2007-2015, and previously served as Chairman of the Board at SonicWall Inc. from 2004-2010. He has also served on a number of startup Boards such as Astute Technologies, Inc. and Conformative Systems, Inc., and is an advisor to NYRIAD, Inc. and GoodSocial, Inc.