Board Member, Astera Labs (ALAB), Box (BOX), GlobalFoundries (GFS), Resideo Technologies (REZI), thredUP (TDUP), & Tonal Systems (Private)

Jack has over 30 years of Silicon Valley experience with a focus on finance and operations. He has served in executive leadership roles at GoPro, Qualcomm, Atheros, NetRatings, Apptitude, and Electronics for Imaging. He was part of teams that took four of these companies public and CFO for 3 of the IPOs. In his operating and Board of Director roles, Jack has been part of over $30 billion in M&A, divestiture, equity, spin and debt transactions, completed six additional IPOs as a Board member and been part of a successful activist defense.   

Jack is currently on the Boards of Astera Labs (ALAB), Box (BOX), Global Foundries (GFS), Resideo (REZI) and thredUP (TDUP).  He also consults with a variety of private companies including Tonal where he is Chairman of the Board.  While serving on the Boards of Astera Labs, Casper Sleep, Global Foundries, Quantenna Communications, thredUP and TubeMogul, each successfully completed its IPO. He was previously on the Boards of several companies who were acquired including TubeMogul (sold to Adobe in 2016), eero (sold to Amazon in March 2019), Quantenna (sold to onSemi in 2019), Mellanox (sold to NVIDIA in 2020), Casper Sleep (sold to Durational Capital in 2022) and Tile (sold to Life360 in 2022). He served for nine years on the Board of Silicon Labs (SLAB) during which they split the company and sold its infrastructure and automotive business to Skyworks for $2.75 billion and its market capitalization increased over 400%. In 2021, Jack was part of Box’s successful activism defense against Starboard Value. He was an advisor to Silver Peak Systems (sold to HPE) and Luxtera (sold to Cisco in 2019).  Jack also serves as an advisor to Boston Consulting Group, Druva, Form Energy and NETGEAR in addition to being on the Advisory Boards for the Accounting and Finance departments at Santa Clara University.  

He earned a B.S.c with an emphasis in accounting from Santa Clara University (1987) and is a certified public accountant (inactive).  He was named an NACD Top 100 Director in 2022 and CFO of the Year by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2008.