About BoardEvals
BoardEvals provides web-based tools that help organizations perform more efficient, effective and thorough board evaluations. BoardEvals enables a standardized, automated board evaluation process that saves time and expenses, while at the same time improving corporate governance. BoardEvals is a private company based in El Dorado Hills, California.
Management
Jim Schraith, Managing Partner
Jim Schraith’s career in high technology spans 25 years and includes significant public and private company experience with operating roles of CEO, COO and EVP at Quantum, Snap Appliances, ShareWave, Compaq and AST Research. As the leader of Compaq's North American operations, he was responsible for over $10 billion in annual revenues and a team of over 6,000 people. At AST, Jim was President & COO and a member of the team that took AST to the Fortune 500 list in 1992. Jim also co-founded QTV Capital, a Bay area venture capital fund, in early 2000. Over the past 15 years, Jim has served on 15 public, private and non-profit boards of directors. He is currently a member of the Asia America Multi-Technology Association, the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Golden Capital Network. Jim is also a venture partner in the DFJ Frontier fund.
Layton Wedgeworth, Partner - Technology
Layton Wedgeworth has deep experience with Java, MySQL, SQL Server, and Ruby-on-Rails. He has been the lead developer of several web-based business and consumer solutions, including a web platform that served over 1.5 million pages per day with a database backend that stored and reported on over 1 billion data records. Layton has co-founded several successful Internet start-ups, including BeenUp2 and WhosOnMyPage.com. Layton's passion for developing new ideas led him to leave his prior job at eBay as a Java developer to become an entrepreneur.
Bob Bennett, Partner – Marketing & Business Development
Bob Bennett has over 20 years experience in technology marketing and management, spanning both Fortune 100 firms as well as small start-up companies. Bob has held senior marketing management positions with Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Cirrus Logic, as well as with several software start-ups. Bob was also a co-founder and Vice President of Marketing for ShareWave. At ShareWave, he played a key role in helping the company raise over $60 million in venture financing from a blue-chip list of investors, including Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Matsushita, Philips and SBC; then, assisted in the sale of the company to Cirrus Logic. Bob earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Stanford University and a Master of Management degree with distinction from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Gilles S. Attia, Advisor – Corporate Governance
Gilles S. Attia is the Managing Partner for DLA Piper’s Sacramento Office. Gilles concentrates his practice on securities compliance and corporate governance advice to public companies and the representation of high-growth companies, investors, and financial institutions in financing, technology, and merger and acquisition transactions. Gilles has advised several hundred growth companies and led many public offerings and merger and acquisition transactions during the past 25 years. He has counseled many rapid growth companies from startup through later rounds of financing and in liquidity transactions valued at over $8 billion during the past eight years, including most of the leading companies in the Sacramento Region. Gilles previously served as a senior attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., where he represented the Commission in the federal courts and counseled the Commission on proposed rulemaking and enforcement actions. During the past 25 years, he has also taught courses in Federal Securities Regulation, Corporate Finance, and Advanced Business Planning as an adjunct professor of law at University of the Pacific. Gilles has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer as the result of a joint research project conducted by Law & Politics and San Francisco magazines.
Contact Information
BoardEvals
873 Embarcadero Road
Suite 3
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
PHONE NUMBER
www.boardevals.com
info@boardevals.com