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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 M. Johnson has served as a Director of since 2001, and is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board. Mr. Johnson currently serves as legal counsel for Roswell Capital Partners, LLC and has served as legal counsel for Equiplace Securities, LLC (formerly Swartz Investments, LLC) since 1996. Mr. Johnson is an active member of the Alabama State Bar, the Florida Bar and the State Bar of Georgia. He has been a member of the Florida law firm of Smith, Sauer, DeMaria & Johnson and Vice President and President-Elect of the 600 member Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association. Mr. Johnson earned his degree with high honors in History/Political Science at Auburn University and his JD degree, also with high honors, at Samford University - Cumberland School of Law. Mr. Johnson also serves on the board of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded company.
Donald E. Schrock, Director
Donald Schrock has been a Director of the Company since April 2008. Mr. Schrock formerly served as Executive Vice President and President of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies Group. Under 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 $1B 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 Harry (Nick) L. Tredennick, III., Director
Nick Tredennick has been a Director of the Company since August 2007. Since 1989, Dr. Tredennick has been the Chief Technical Officer of Tredennick, Inc., a technology consulting firm. Dr. Tredennick was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to microprocessor design. While at Motorola (now Freescale), he designed the microprocessor that became the central processor for the original Apple Macintosh. Dr. Tredennick also designed a System/370 microprocessor as a research staff member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Tredennick was chief scientist at Altera, a programmable-logic company and has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Tredennick has been on the editorial advisory board for several technical publications including IEEE Spectrum and Microprocessor Report. He has been a founder and director of several companies, including Pacific Fiberoptics and NexGen Microsystems (later acquired by AMD) and Tredennick, Inc. Dr. Tredennick has written a textbook and more than sixty technical papers and has nine patents. Dr. Tredennick has a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Texas and was a registered professional engineer for many years.
Dharmesh Mistry
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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