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 Cliff Flowers, Interim CEO & CFO
Cliff Flowers, Chief Financial Officer, joined Patriot in September 2007 and is responsible for the day-to-day accounting and finance activities, planning, treasury, legal, and general services for the company. Most recently, Cliff was Interim CFO for BakBone Software Inc., a developer of software solutions focused on data protection and business continuity. Prior to joining BakBone, Cliff served as senior vice president of finance and operations and CFO for Financial Profiles, Inc., a developer of software for the financial planning industry. Prior to joining Financial Profiles, Cliff served as CFO of Xifin, Inc., a provider of hosted software services to the commercial laboratory marketplace. Before coming to Xifin, Cliff served for nine years in positions of increasing responsibility at Previo, Inc., a developer and marketer of various PC and server-based products, including backup and business continuity offerings. As CFO of Previo, Cliff's global responsibilities included all financial operations and legal affairs. He earlier served as an audit manager with Price Waterhouse, LLP. Cliff is a graduate of San Diego State University with a B.S. summa cum laude in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting.
Directors
Helmut Falk, Jr., Director
Dr. Helmut Falk has been a Director since 1997. From 1992 until 2000, Dr. Falk served as the Director of Anesthesia of, and served on the medical executive committee for, the Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin, Indiana. Since 2000, Dr. Falk has worked at St. Francis Hospital in Mooresville, Indiana has a staff anesthesiologist and has been Chairman of its Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. Dr. Falk received his D.O. from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in 1987 and his B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Irvine in 1983. Dr. Falk is the son of the late Helmut Falk, Sr., who was the sole shareholder of nanoTronics and Chairman and CEO of Patriot Scientific until his death in July 1995. Dr. Falk is also an heir to the Helmut Falk Estate, which is the beneficial owner of the Company's shares held by the Helmut Falk Family Trust.
Gloria Felcyn, Director
Gloria Felcyn was first appointed a Director in 2002 and is the Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. Ms. Felcyn is a Certified Public Accountant and has been the principal in her own public accounting firm in Saratoga, California, since 1982. Prior to establishing her own firm, she was employed by Main Hurdman & Cranston 1969 through 1970 and at Price Waterhouse & Co, in the San Francisco and New York offices from 1970 through 1976. Subsequent to that, Ms. felcyn worked in the field of offshore tax planning with a major real estate syndication company. Ms. Felcyn received a B.S. degree in Business Economics from Trinity University in 1968 and is a member of the American Institute of CPA's.
Carlton M. Johnson, Jr., Director
Carlton Johnson has served as a director of the Company since 2001, and is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. Mr. Johnson is in-house legal counsel for Roswell Capital Partners, LLC, a position he has held since June 1996. Mr. Johnson has been admitted to the practice of law in Alabama since 1986, Florida since 1982 and Georgia since 1997. He has been a shareholder in the Pensacola, Florida AV- rated law firm of Smith, Sauer, DeMaria Johnson and was President-Elect of the 500 member Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association. He also served on the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors. Mr. Johnson earned a degree in History/Political Science at Auburn University and Juris Doctor at Samford University - Cumberland School of Law. Since 1999, Mr. Johnson has served on the board of directors of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly held emerging bio-tech company. Mr. Johnson serves as chairman of Peregrine's audit committee and is a member of Peregrine's compensation and nominating committees. Since May 2009, Mr. Johnson has served on the board of directors of CryoPort, Inc. a publicly held company providing cost-efficient frozen shipping to biopharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Mr. Johnson serves as chairman of CryoPort's compensation committee and as a member of its audit committee. Since November 2009, Mr. Johnson has served on the board of directors of ECOtality, Inc. a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies. Mr. Johnson serves on the audit committee of ECOtality.
Donald E. Schrock, Director
Donald Schrock has served as a director of the Company since April 2008 and is chairman of the Mergers & Acquisitions Committee. Mr. Schrock formerly served as Executive Vice President and President of Qualcomm Incorporated’s CDMA Technologies Group. Under Mr. Schrock's leadership, Qualcomm became the world's largest fabless semiconductor company and the world's leading supplier of CDMA chipsets and software. During his tenure he led and directed Qualcomm's $1Billion acquisition of Snaptrack, which accelerated the commercialization of advanced GPS service into wireless handsets, and was a cornerstone of Qualcomm Launchpad strategy. In addition to his leadership at Qualcomm, Mr. Schrock served on the board of directors of the Fabless Semiconductor Association and Jazz Semiconductor, a privately held Mixed Signal and RF water foundry, until its merger with Acquicor Technology in 2007. Mr. Schrock has also served as Vice President and Division Manager to several companies, including GM Hughes Electronics, Applied Micro Circuit, Burr-Brown Corporation, and spent 15 years with Motorola Semiconductor. Mr. Schrock holds a BSEE with honors from the University of Illinois, has completed the coursework for an MSEE from Arizona State University, and has an Advanced Business Administration degree from Arizona State University. Since October 2009, Mr. Schrock has served on the board of directors of publicly held Integrated Device Technology, Inc., a designer and fabricator of semiconductor components. Since December 2009, Mr. Schrock has served on the board of directors of publicly held MaxLinear, Inc., a provider of highly integrated radio-frequency analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions for broadband communication applications. Dharmesh Mistry, Director
Dharmesh Mistry is a nominee to our board of directors and will serve as chair of our Technology Committee. Mr. Mistry has over 16 years of experience working in the software development industry. Since 2004, Mr. Mistry has been responsible for business development and global delivery of consulting services to the Independent Software Vendors segment of Cognizant Technology Solutions, a provider of IT consulting, technology and outsourcing services. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Mistry was Director of Professional Services - International Division for Verisign, Inc., a provider of internet infrastructure services. Prior to his tenure at Verisign, Inc. Mr. Mistry was Technology Manager for Context Integration, Managing Consultant for Netscape Communications and Team Lead on the Oracle 8i Development team of Oracle Corporation. Mr. Mistry holds a B.S. in Physics from Imperial College, London, England and a Master of Engineering in electrical engineering and applied physics from Cornell University.
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