David W. Mann has been chairman of our board of directors since 2006. From 1969 to 1994, Mr. Mann was employed by Logica plc, where he became group chief executive and then deputy chairman. Since 1994 Mr. Mann served as non-executive chairman or director of several companies including, until 2010, eleven years as senior independent director of AVEVA Group plc, an engineering technology provider listed on the London Stock Exchange. He is currently a non-executive director of Charteris plc, a technology consulting company listed on AIM. Mr. Mann holds a degree in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Jesus College, Cambridge University, and is a Past President of the British Computer Society.
Alex Moukas is one of our co-founders and has been our chief executive officer and a director since its inception in 2000. He previously co-founded, and served from 1998 to 2000 as the chief scientist of, Frictionless Commerce, Inc., a privately held, strategic sourcing software provider in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was later acquired by SAP AG. Mr. Moukas holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Computer Systems from the American College of Greece, an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nicholas P. Negroponte has been a member of our board of directors since 2006. He is the co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory and as been a member of its faculty since 1966. Professor Negroponte is on the board of several privately held companies and is a published author and founder of WiReD magazine. He also founded in 2005 and continues to serve as chairman of One Laptop per Child, a non-profit association. Professor Negroponte holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
David C. Hobley has been a member of our board of directors since 2006. Mr. Hobley has served for more than 35 years in investment banking firms, having previously been with Deloitte and Touche LLP and Coopers and Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers). He was first with SG Warburg & Co. in London from 1972 to 1997, and has been with Deutsche Bank AG in London from 1998 to the present. He was an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of Orange S.A., a subsidiary of France Telecom, from 2003 to 2007 and remains on the boards of several France Telecom/Orange-related companies. He also serves as a director for Sonaecom S.A. a publicly traded Portuguese telecommunications company, and several privately held companies. Mr. Hobley is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Jerry Goldstein has been a member of our board of directors since 2006. Mr. Goldstein previously served as the executive director and a board member of Citicorp Investment Bank, a division of Citigroup, Inc., in London, a managing director of Kidder Peabody International Limited, and deputy chief executive officer of Sanwa International. He has also served as the chairman of the Council for Reporting Dealers in the international securities markets, as well as on the board of the International Securities Market Association. Mr. Goldstein holds a B.A. with Honors from Swarthmore College and a M.A. from New York University.
Chris Kaskavelis is one of our co-founders and has been our chief operating officer and a director since its inception in 2000. In 1996, he started a division of TCA Software, a privately held enterprise software company based in Boston, Massachussetts. Dr. Kaskavelis serves as a director for several privately held companies. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Business Economics from Brown University. Dr. Kaskavelis alsoholds an M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering and a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from Boston University.
Wilson Cheung, Chief Financial Officer, and Menelaos Scouloudis, Chief Commercial Officer, participate in board meetings as observers.