NetSuite Board of DirectorsThe NetSuite board of directors consists of a group of outstanding individuals with exceptional accomplishments. As movers and shakers in the industries they represent, they provide directional advice to further NetSuite's leadership in the Software as a Service industry.Evan Goldberg, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer of NetSuite and Chairman of the NetSuite Board
Billy Beane, General Manager, the Oakland Athletics Evan Goldberg Zach Nelson Billy Beane The Oakland Athletics have been a perennial postseason contender since Mr. Beane took over the general manager's duties in 1998, and in 2006 the team continued its winning ways by advancing to the American League Championship Series. The A's have compiled a 825-632- (.573) record over the last nine seasons, which is the second-best record in the American League and third best in all of baseball during that time frame, won three American League West titles (2000; 2002-03) and secured one AL Wild Card spot (2001). And they have done this all while having one of the lowest payrolls in Major League Baseball. In addition, Oakland A's players have won numerous individual accolades over the last eight seasons, including two American League Most Valuable Player awards, a pair of AL Rookie of the Year honors and one AL Cy Young Award. The organisation's farm system has also flourished under Mr. Beane. The A's have earned Organisation of the Year honors three times under Mr. Beane (1998 Topps; 1999 Baseball America, Topps, Howe Sports Data; 2004 Topps). Mr. Beane joined the A's front office staff in 1990 as the club's major league advance scout. In 1993, he was promoted to the assistant general manager's position. And in late 1997 he assumed the general manager's duties. Earlier in his career, he was a first round draft pick (23rd overall) of the New York Mets in the 1980 June Free Agent Draft. He played six major league seasons as an infielder, outfielder and catcher for the Mets, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers and Oakland A's. His final season in uniform was 1989 when he was a utility player on the A's World Championship team. Mr. Beane retired as an active player in the spring of 1990. Mr. Beane is a frequent speaker before some of the top companies in the nation. He also sits on the Board of Directors for a number of companies such as Riddell, the official helmet company of the NFL and PROTRADE, a sports entertainment company. Deborah A. Farrington Prior to founding StarVest, Ms. Farrington held positions including: President and CEO of Victory Ventures, LLC, a New York-based private equity investment firm; and Managing Director of Asian Oceanic Group, a Hong Kong-based merchant bank. Earlier in her career she was in management positions spanning international and domestic investment banking and securities analysis with Merrill Lynch & Co. based in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo. She is a graduate of Smith College and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Keith D. Grinstein Mr. Grinstein is a partner of Second Avenue Partners, a venture capital firm which is focused on emerging Internet businesses. He has held a number of senior executive positions, serving previously as Nextel International Inc.'s president and chief executive officer and prior to that president and chief executive officer of the Aviation Communications Division of AT&T Wireless (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications). Mr. Grinstein is an experienced public company audit committee member and has lectured extensively on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. In 2003, Mr. Grinstein testified in front of the US Senate Banking Committee on behalf of NASDAQ small and mid-cap companies regarding the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. Mr. Grinstein is also a frequent lecturer on Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley, executive compensation and director duties; and has lectured on director duties at the University of Washington Business School and Seattle University Law School. A successful venture capitalist, Mr. Grinstein was a seed-capital investor in Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). He is a founding partner of Second Avenue Partners, a VC group funding Pacific Northwest early-stage companies. In addition, he has been a driving force behind structuring a number of leading companies including Pathogenesis, VaxGen (VXGN: PK), Tegic, HouseValues (NASDAQ: SOLD), Wireless Services, Nordstrom.com of Nordstrom Inc. (NYSE: JWN), Superconductor Collider Corporation, Neah Power (NPWS: PK), Insitu, and Ice Energy. Mr. Grinstein holds a B.A. in education from Yale University and a J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. Kevin Thompson
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