Shutterfly Adds Pat House and Jim White to Board of Directors.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- Shutterfly (www.shutterfly.com ), the leading independent online photo service, today announced that Pat House, Cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found and Vice Chairman of Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. , and Jim White
Jim White (born March 10, 1957[1]) is an American southern singer/songwriter. , Sutter Hill Ventures Managing Director, have joined the Shutterfly Board of Directors. "I am extremely pleased and honored to add such talented and experienced executives to our Board," said Shutterfly President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Jeff Housenbold. "Pat and Jim have deep strategy, operations, and marketing backgrounds along with exceptional track records of growing technology based companies, which will be invaluable as we continue to scale our business and extend our position as the leading online photo service." Ms. House co-founded Siebel Systems in 1993 and has served in senior executive positions in some of Silicon Valley's most prestigious companies including Oracle Corporation, Verbatim Corporation For other companies named Verbatim, see Verbatim The Verbatim Corporation is a US company and markets storage media and flash memory products. It is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation of Japan. and Frame Technology Corporation. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Levi Strauss & Co. and BDNA Corporation. A frequent industry spokesperson and a guest professor at Stanford University, Pat is the co-author of the business best-seller Cyber Rules, published by Doubleday. Ms. House has been named one of Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women and the Entrepreneur of the Year by the Forum of Women Entrepreneurs. Pat received a B.A. in Education from Western Michigan University Western Michigan University, at Kalamazoo, Mich.; coeducational; founded in 1903 as Western State Normal School, became accredited in 1927 as a college, gained university status in 1957. . "I'm excited to be collaborating with a seasoned, high-integrity management team that has a crisp vision and a track record of execution," said Pat House, co-founder of Siebel Systems, Inc. "It is a rare opportunity to be involved with a fast-growing company that is pioneering a new category, has a solid business model and leverages technology in a user friendly manner to solve a broad-based consumer need," added Ms. House. Mr. White has been a managing director at Sutter Hill Ventures since 2000. Jim also serves on the Board of Digital Chocolate, Forterra Systems, Inquira, Object Reservoir, Radiance Technologies, Right Hemisphere, Satmetrix and Vocalocity. White has held senior executive positions at Macromedia, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. and Hewlett-Packard. Jim received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from Harvard University. Sutter Hill Ventures is an investor in Shutterfly along with other top tier investors such as Jim Clark, Mohr, Davidow Ventures and Adobe Ventures. Additional Shutterfly Board members include Board Chairman Jim Clark, Shutterfly's president and CEO Jeffrey Housenbold, and Nancy Schoendorf, Managing Partner with Mohr, Davidow Ventures. About Shutterfly Founded in 1999, Shutterfly, Inc. (www.shutterfly.com ) is a premium photo service specializing in the consumer and professional photography markets. The company provides customers with simple and fun ways to organize, enhance and archive images; share pictures with family and friends; order professional-quality prints and create an assortment of personalized items such as Photo Books, Calendars and Greeting Cards. In 2005, Shutterfly ranked no. 170 on the 24th annual Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Shutterfly and Shutterfly.com are trademarks of Shutterfly, Inc. About Sutter Hill Ventures Sutter Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm that finances technology-based start-up and early-stage companies pioneering products or services in growth markets, especially those in information technology and health care. Founded in 1964, it is one of Silicon Valley's original venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] . Companies backed by Sutter Hill include: Netapp, Legato, Quantum, Storage Tek, Tellabs, Alteon, Linear Technology, NVIDIA, BroadVision, Vitria, Molecular Devices, Cor Therapeutics, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Omnicell, and eLoyalty. (http://www.shv.com/index.html ) |
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