Bob Frankenburg

Bob Frankenberg is the owner of NetVentures, a management consulting firm focused on the high tech industry.  Prior to its sale in 2004, Bob chaired Kinzan, a leading provider of Internet services platforms.  Bob was the chairman, president, and CEO of Encanto Networks from June 1997 to July 2000 when the company’s major business was sold to Avaya. Encanto was a leading provider of eBusiness software and services to small business. From April 1994 to August 1996 Frankenberg was the Chairman/CEO of Novell, the world’s largest networking software company.  He successfully led Novell through a major strategy change to focus the company on the network software business.  Prior to Novell, Frankenberg was the Vice President & Group General Manager of Hewlett-Packard’s Personal Information Products Group, responsible for HP’s personal computer, Server, networking, office software, calculator, and consumer product lines.  Under his leadership HP’s PC business moved from 26^th in market share to 7^th.  The management team he built moved HP to #1 in personal computers after he left for Novell.   Frankenberg joined Hewlett-Packard in 1969 as a manufacturing technician, later became a design engineer, software designer, project manager, engineering and marketing executive, and general manager.   He became a corporate vice president in 1990 and general manager of the Personal Information Products Group in 1991.

Frankenberg serves on the board of directors of Nuance Communications, as well as private companies Veracity Networks, SQLStream, and Sylvan Source.   He also serves on the Sundance Institute board where he has been involved since 1994. He currently chairs the Westminster College Board of Trustees.  He is a former member of the San Jose State University Advisory, Stanford Business School Alumni, National Semiconductor, America on Line (AOL), Daw Technologies, Electroglas, Encanto Networks, Extended Systems, Kinzan, PowerQuest, Secure Computing, Starlight Networks, Wall Data, and Placer Rehabilitation Industries boards.

Frankenberg is a 1974 Phi Kappa Phi/Tau Beta Pi, Summa cum laude Computer Engineering graduate of San Jose State University.  He is a SEP graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.  Bob is widely published; a frequent public speaker and holds several computer design patents.  He has received numerous awards including the Air Force Commendation Medal, Smithsonian Jefferson Scholar, Distinguished Utahan, and SJSU College of Engineering Distinguished Graduate.  He was recently inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. He served in the US Air Force from 1965 to 1969.  Bob and Linda, his wife of 44 years, live in Alpine, Utah.

Rich Clifton

Senior Vice President of Technology Enablement and Solutions at NetApp.

Klaus-Dieter Laidig

Former member of SAP’s Supervisory Board; former HP Computer Systems executive responsible for Europe.

Mike Rose

Executive Vice President of Support & Operations for Juniper Networks, former CIO of HP, CIO of Royal Dutch Shell, and public board directorships at NetIQ and Brocade.

Dick Watts

Former member of Hewlett Packard’s Executive Committee in charge of world wide computer systems.

Duane Zitzner

Former Hewlett-Packard executive, responsible for HP’s Personal Computing business worldwide, and also ran HP’s Enterprise systems business including both hardware and software.