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NetSuite Board of Directors

The 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
Zach Nelson, President and Chief Executive Officer of NetSuite

Billy Beane, General Manager, the Oakland Athletics
Deborah Farrington, Founder and General Partner, StarVest Partners, L.P.
Kevin Thompson, Chief Financial Officer, SolarWinds

Evan Goldberg
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Chairman of the Board, NetSuite

Mr. Goldberg spent eight years at Oracle Corporation, where he served as a vice president. He was involved in a variety of projects, all focused on making powerful database technology more accessible to users. When he left Oracle, he started mBED Software and built groundbreaking Web site technology. He founded NetSuite in 1998. Mr. Goldberg holds a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.

Zach Nelson
President and Chief Executive Officer, NetSuite

Mr. Nelson has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the hi-tech industry, where he has held a variety of executive positions spanning marketing, sales, product development and business strategy with leading companies such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and McAfee/Network Associates. Mr. Nelson has been CEO of NetSuite since 2002. Under his leadership NetSuite's revenues have grown ten-fold, workforce has quintupled to more than 500 employees, and its customer base has expanded to thousands of companies around the globe. Recently named as CRM Influential Leader of 2006 by CRM Magasine, Mr. Nelson has led NetSuite to be one of the hottest software companies in the world. Mr. Nelson holds a patent in the field of application integration, and has several others pending approval. He holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University.

Billy Beane
General Manager, the Oakland Athletics

Mr. Beane is the general manager of Major League Baseball, Oakland A's. Known for taking one of the most traditional businesses in America — professional baseball — and redefining its most basic tenets, Mr. Beane has leveraged the power of mathematics to manage his team by using sophisticated statistical analysis in addition to traditional "gut instinct." Mr. Beane's executive talents and the organisation's baseball philosophy were the subject of Michael Lewis' best-selling book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," which opened the eyes of many of the top sports executives and business CEOs from any industry or profession in the nation.

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
Founder & General Partner, StarVest Partners, L.P.

Ms. Farrington is a founder and partner of StarVest Partners, L.P., a New York City based venture capital firm that invests in software, ecommerce and business services. Founded in 1998, StarVest has invested in 25 companies. Having served on the boards of many private and public companies previously, Ms. Farrington currently sits on the Boards of NetSuite, Fieldglass, ComparisonMarket (Insurance.com) and Perquest on behalf of StarVest. She is also a director and chairman of the Compensation Committee and member of the Audit Committee of Collectors Universe, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLCT).

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.

Kevin Thompson
Chief Financial Officer, SolarWinds

Kevin Thompson brings nearly 20 years of corporate finance, strategic planning and management experience to the NetSuite board. Mr. Thompson currently serves as chief financial officer at SolarWinds, a leading provider of Windows-based network management, network monitoring and network discovery software applications. Prior to SolarWinds, Mr. Thompson was senior vice president and chief financial officer at SAS, the largest privately held software company in the world. Before that, he was chief financial officer, treasurer, and an executive vice president of Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHT), the world's leading provider of Linux and open source solutions to the enterprise. Earlier in his career, Mr. Thompson served as a partner in the Global Technology Industry Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he managed operations, debt and equity offerings, and mergers and acquisitions for public and private technology companies.

 

 
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