Robert S. Winter   |   Gary Post   |  Brian Grossi

Garry has significant operating experience as the CEO, Chairman or board member of sixteen private and public companies.  Recent private company operating experience includes being interim CEO of Fresco Technologies, a private digital imaging company, and President and CEO of Clairvoyante, a company which developed and licensed proprietary intellectual property to the flat panel display market and then sold to Samsung.

His public company operating experience includes being President and CEO of Spectrian Corporation, a manufacturer of high-power-radio frequency components for wireless network equipment. After four years as CEO, he became working Chairman of the Board for two years. Under his leadership, annual revenues grew three-fold, the balance sheet strengthened considerably and product development cycles were reduced by more than 50%. Additionally, the Company invested $25 million in a captive RF power transistor subsidiary, recruited a new management team, and spun Ultra RF out as a separate business which was sold two years later for $125 million.

Prior to Spectrian, Garry spent three years as President and CEO for Censtor Corporation, a company that developed thin-film contact and perpendicular magnetic recording head and disc technology for the data storage industry and produced components through partnerships and licensing. He raised $20 million in venture funding, rebuilt the management and technical teams, completed product development and prototype manufacturing and sold the operation to Read Rite, holding back ownership of the intellectual property which was broadly licensed to the storage industry.

Prior to Censtor Garry was Vice President of strategic marketing and technology for Seagate Technology, responsible for technology business development, corporate product strategy, product planning and several R&D teams. He was responsible for Seagate’s $30 million investment in SanDisk for 30% of that company. Prior to that, he was general manager of Seagate’s Minneapolis Data Storage Operation supplying enterprise markets. Before Seagate’s acquisition of Imprimis, he spent three years as Vice President in various technical and general management assignments at Imprimis Technology (data storage subsidiary of Control Data Corporation).

Prior to Imprimis he was at Hewlett-Packard in various technical management positions, where he worked on medical instrumentation, submicron lithography and printers. He managed teams that developed technology and product prototypes for the first ink jet and laser printers. Before HP he served as an officer in the United States Navy, with his last active duty assignment being an assistant professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Garry has served on Boards of seven public and nine private companies and is currently a director of Iridex (IRIX) and Gigatronics (GIGA). At Stanford he earned an MS with distinction in Engineering Physics and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering. He was awarded a four-year scholarship and a three-year fellowship and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.