Below is a summary of our committee structure and membership information. To read more about any of the committees, click on committee names in the chart below.
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Audit
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Nominating and Governance
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Compensation
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Gary G. Greenfield
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Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
In his role as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Mr. Greenfield is overseeing a number of initiatives designed to achieve greater operating efficiencies across the company and to solidify Avid's position as a world leader in designing and developing innovative content creation, media production and broadcast solutions.
Mr. Greenfield is a proven senior executive with multidisciplinary experience in high technology. Prior to joining Avid in December 2007, Mr. Greenfield was CEO of GXS, Inc. from 2003 to 2007, a leading worldwide provider of business-to-business integration, synchronization and collaboration solutions. Since December 2003, he had also been an operating partner with Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused private equity firm.
Previously, Mr. Greenfield served as CEO of Peregrine Systems, Inc. where he managed the restructuring of that company's business. He has also served as president and CEO of MERANT and CEO of INTERSOLV, which merged with Micro Focus to form MERANT. He has experience growing businesses both organically and through acquisition, managing development, marketing and operations, and serving diverse customers from small businesses to the Fortune 500.
Mr. Greenfield earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, a Master of Science Administration degree from George Washington University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.
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George H. Billings
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President, Billings & Co.
Since 1987, Mr. Billings has been the President of Billings & Co., a management consulting firm focused on the wireless communications and related industries. Mr. Billings also served as Chief Operating Officer from March 1998 to June 1998 and as Chief Executive Officer from June 1998 to May 1999 of Silicon Wireless, Ltd., a developer of wireless communication technology. In addition, from May 1992 to May 1997, Mr. Billings served first as the Chief Operating Officer and later as Vice Chairman of Radio Movil Digital Americas, Inc., a wireless dispatch communications company with investments in South America. Previously, Mr. Billings served as General Manager of the Washington-Baltimore Cellular Telephone Partnership (d/b/a Cellular One), and as Vice President of Corporate Development of the Communications Satellite Corporation.
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Dr. Elizabeth M. Daley
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Dean of the USC School of Cinema-Television
Dr. Daley has been Dean of the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California since 1991, and Executive Director of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California since 1993.
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Nancy Hawthorne
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Lead Director, Avid Technology, Inc.
Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Clerestory, LLC
Nancy Hawthorne is the Lead Director of Avid Technology's board of directors. Hawthorne has been a member of the Avid board of directors since 1997 and has worked closely with Avid senior management team as the company has diversified its business and more than doubled revenues in the last five years. As chief financial officer of Continental Cablevision, Inc., Hawthorne was responsible for treasury, mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, accounting functions, and oversaw the company's financial strategy and capital markets activities. Following Continental Cablevision's merger with US West Inc., she became an executive vice president of the merged company, MediaOne. Hawthorne holds a bachelor of arts degree from Wellesley College and a master of business administration degree from the Harvard Business School.
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Louis Hernandez, Jr.
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Open Solutions Inc.
Louis Hernandez, Jr. is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Open Solutions Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-wide enabling technologies for financial institutions.
Mr. Hernandez currently serves on the board of directors of HSBC North America Holdings Inc., HSBC USA Inc., HSBC Bank USA, N.A., and Unica Corporation (Nasdaq: UNCA).
Mr. Hernandez is active in several community issues, including serving as a member of the board of trustees of the Connecticut Center for Science & Exploration and as a board member of the Connecticut Children's Medical Center. In 2008, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation named Mr. Hernandez the 2008 Community Leader of the Year to honor his contributions to the community. In addition, he was appointed as the "Distinguished Business Executive" in Residence at Eastern Connecticut State University for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Mr. Hernandez is a past recipient of the Hartford Business Journal's Business Person of the Year, has been named one of the Hartford Business Journal's top executives under 40 and was an Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. He was also named one of the financial service industry's five most innovative leaders, a 2007 Innovator of the Year and inducted into the Leadership Hall of Fame by Bank Technology News, a national financial services publication.
Mr. Hernandez has had several articles published by leading journals and speaks regularly on the topics of technology, economics, strategic planning and globalization.
Mr. Hernandez is also part-owner of the Boston Breakers, one of the eight teams in the newly reformed Women's United Soccer Association.
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Dr. Youngme E. Moon
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Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr. Moon has been a professor at Harvard Business School since 1998. Prior to that, Dr. Moon was professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1997 to 1998. From 1991 to 1993, Dr. Moon was a producer for the NBC News affiliate, KRON, in San Francisco, California.
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David Mullen
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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, NAVTEQ
Mr. Mullen is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NAVTEQ (formerly Navigation Technologies), a leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions. Mr. Mullen has served as Chief Financial Officer of NAVTEQ since 2002. NAVTEQ was acquired by Nokia Corporation in July 2008. Prior to joining NAVTEQ, Mr. Mullen served as Chief Financial Officer for Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. and Enterprise Systems, Inc., both technology-based businesses. He began his career at Arthur Young & Company, which is now Ernst & Young.
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John H. Park
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Partner, Blum Capital
Mr. Park is a Partner of Blum Capital and shares responsibility for approximately $3.6 billion of assets under management. Prior to joining Blum Capital, Mr. Park spent 11 years with Columbia Wanger Asset Management, L.P. where he was a Partner and the Portfolio Manager of the $900 millionColumbia Acorn Select Fund and a Co-Portfolio Manager of the $12 billionColumbia Acorn Fund. In addition, Mr. Park was Director of Domestic Equity Research. Mr. Park received his B.A. and MBA from the University of Chicago. In addition, he holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
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