Eric A. Benhamou

Overview

Eric Benhamou has served as a director since March 2007. Mr. Benhamou was appointed as a director by Baker Capital, Pitango Venture Capital and Vertex Venture Capital. Since 2003, Mr. Benhamou has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Benhamou Global Ventures, LLC, a venture capital fund focused on high-tech firms, which he founded in 2003. Prior to founding Benhamou Global Ventures, Mr. Benhamou served as Chief Executive Officer of Palm, Inc., a provider of mobile products and solutions, from October 2001 to October 2003. From 1990 until October 2000, Mr. Benhamou served as Chief Executive Officer of 3Com Communications, a provider of secure, converged voice and data networking solutions. In 1981, Mr. Benhamou co-founded Bridge Communications, Inc., a provider of internetwork routers and bridges, and was Vice-President of Engineering until its merger with 3Com Communications in 1987. Since 1994, Mr. Benhamou has served as Chairman of the Board of 3Com Corporation and, since 1997, Mr. Benhamou has been Chairman of the Board of Palm, Inc. Mr. Benhamou also serves as Chairman of the Board of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, and is a member of the board of directors of RealNetworks, Inc. and SVB Financial Group. Mr. Benhamou holds a Diplome d'Ingenieur from Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers, Paris, and an M.Sc in Engineering from Stanford University.