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Richard A. Cowell
Richard A. Cowell joined the Company as a director in August 1996. Mr. Cowell is a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. where he is involved in advanced concepts development and technology transition, joint and service experimentation, and the interoperability and integration of command and control systems for Department of Defense and other agencies. Prior to joining Booz Allen & Hamilton in March of 1996, Mr. Cowell served in the U.S. Army for 25 years. Immediately prior to his retirement from the Army, Mr. Cowell served as Director of the Louisiana Maneuvers Task Force reporting directly to the Chief of Staff, Army. Mr. Cowell has authored a number of articles relating to the future of the potential future capabilities of various services and agencies. Mr. Cowell retired from the Army holding the rank of Colonel.
Slade Gorton
Chairman and Lead Independent Director
Slade Gorton joined the company as a director in September 2003. Mr. Gorton is currently Of Counsel at the law firm of K&L Gates, LLP. Prior to joining the firm, he represented Washington State in the United States Senate for 18 years. Mr. Gorton began his political career in 1958 as a Washington State Representative and went on to serve as State House Majority Leader. Mr. Gorton served as Attorney General of Washington from 1969-1981, and during that time he argued 14 cases before the United States Supreme Court. After leaving the Senate Mr. Gorton served as a commissioner on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (“9-11 Commission”); as a member of the National War Powers Commission and is Co-Chairman of the National Transportation Policy Project. Mr. Gorton is a director of Vigilos, Inc. Mr. Gorton also served in the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Jeanette Horan
Ms. Horan joined Microvision as a director in June 2006. Ms. Horan is currently Vice President, Enterprise Business Transformation for IBM where she leads BM's transformation to a globally integrated enterprise. Prior to her current position, she was Vice President, Business Process and Architecture Integration from July 2006 to April 2007 where she led IBM's internal business process transformation and technology portfolio. Prior to this, Ms. Horan was Vice President, Information Management from January 2004 to July 2006 and Vice President Strategy, IBM Software Group from January 2003 to January 2004, where she was responsible for strategic alliances with key platform partners and led strategic and operational planning processes. From May 1998 to December 2002, Ms. Horan was also Vice President, Development for the Lotus brand and led worldwide product management, development and technical support.
Perry M. Mulligan
Mr. Mulligan joined Microvision as a director in January 2010 and has over 25 years of experience in operations and supply chain management. Mr. Mulligan is currently Senior Vice President, Operations for QLogic, where he is responsible for all aspects of the manufacturing and delivery of products to the customer in addition to overall supply chain design and manufacturing strategy. Prior to QLogic, from May 2004 to September 2007 Mr. Mulligan was at Solectron where he held the position of Senior Vice President Supply Chain Management and Chief Procurement Officer and was responsible for establishing the overall materials and supply chain strategy.
Alexander Tokman
Alexander Tokman has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Microvision since January 2006. Mr. Tokman served as Microvision’s President and Chief Operating Officer from July 2005 to January 2006. Mr. Tokman, a former GE executive, joined the Company after a 10-year tenure at GE Healthcare, a subsidiary of General Electric, where he led several global businesses, most recently as General Manager of its Global Molecular Imaging & Radiopharmacy unit Prior to that, Mr. Tokman served in various cross-functional and cross-business leadership roles at GE where he led the definition and commercialization of several medical modalities product segments including PET/CT, which added over $500 million of revenue growth to the company within the first three years of its commercial introduction. As one of GE's Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma pioneers (certified Black Belt and Master Black Belt) he drove the quality culture change across GE Healthcare in the late 1990's. From 1989 to 1995 Mr. Tokman served as technical programs lead and head of I&RD at Tracor Applied Sciences a subsidiary of then Tracor, Inc. Mr. Tokman has both an M.S. and B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Brian Turner
Mr. Turner has served as a director of the Company since July 2006. Mr. Turner was the Chief Financial Officer of Coinstar Inc. from 2003 until June 2009. Prior to Coinstar, he served as Senior Vice President of Operations, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Real Networks, Inc, a digital media and technology company. Prior to Real Networks, Mr. Turner was employed by BSquare Corp., a software company, where he initially served as Senior Vice President of Operations, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary before being promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to BSquare, Mr. Turner was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Administration of Radisys Corp., an embedded software company. Mr. Turner's experience also includes 13 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he held several positions including Director, Corporate Finance.