The board of directors and the management of Microvision believe that good corporate governance is important to ensure that Microvision is managed for the long-term benefit of our stockholders.
Biographies of our directors, a listing of the Committees of our Board of Directors and Board Committee Charters are contained in the materials that follow.
Executive Profiles
Richard A. Cowell
Richard A. Cowell joined the Company as a director in August 1996. Mr. Cowell is a Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton involved in, among other things, the incorporation of simulation and models into education and training programs for Department of Defense contractors. 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 Army and received awards for his writing and producing of a film entitled "America's Army" in 1994. 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 Preston Gates & Ellis 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. In 1968 he was elected Attorney General of Washington State where he served until 1980. Mr. Gorton also served on the President's Consumer Advisory Council (1975-77), the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (1969-1981), the National Commission on Federal Election Reform (2001), and was chairman of the Washington State Law & Justice Commission (1969-76). Mr. Gorton also served in the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Air Force Reserves. Mr. Gorton is currently a Commissioner on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States ("9-11 Commission").
Jeanette Horan
Ms. Horan joined Microvision as a director in June 2006. Ms Horan is currently Vice President, Worldwide Information Management Development and General Manager, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory IBM and is responsible for all information management software development in IBM. Prior to her current position, Ms. Horan was Vice President, Strategy of the 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. Prior to joining IBM, Ms. Horan worked for Digital Equipment Corporation where she was Vice President, Development for the AltaVista business, bringing the Web search engine and suite of intranet products to market. Ms. Horan's management experience also includes five years as Vice President, Development for the Open Software Foundation.
Marc Onetto
Marc Onetto joined Microvision as a director in March 2006. Mr. Onetto is currently Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations for Amazon.com, Inc. Prior to his current position, Mr. Onetto was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations for Solectron, a $10 billion global provider of electronics manufacturing and integrated supply-chain services to OEMs, from June 2003 to May 2006. He joined Solectron after a 15 year career with GE where he most recently was Vice President of GE Corporate's European operations. From 1992-2002 Mr. Onetto held several senior leadership positions at GE Medical Systems as head of its global supply chain and operations, global quality, and global process engineering. He was one of GE's Six Sigma pioneers and spearheaded the quality culture transformation across GE Medical Systems. Prior to GE, Mr. Onetto served 12 years with Exxon Corporation in supply operations, information systems and finance.
Alexander Tokman
Alexander Tokman joined the company's management team in July 2005 with responsibilities for managing the company's operations, including research and product development, manufacturing, and sales and marketing. Previously Tokman served in GE Healthcare, a subsidiary of General Electric, most recently as General Manager of its Global Molecular Imaging & Radiopharmacy unit. 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. Tokman has M.S. and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Brian Turner
Mr. Turner, joined Coinstar in 2003 as its Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this, 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.
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