Board of Directors

Mark Gerson, Executive Chairman

Mark Gerson is the Executive Chairman of Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), which he co-founded in 1998. A graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School, Mark is also the author of several books and numerous articles and essays. His work has been published by the Free Press, Addison Wesley and Madison Books, and in newspapers and magazines including The New Republic, Reader's Digest, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. Mark currently serves on the boards of the American Friends of the IDC, Manhattan Institute, Yale Chai Society, and Imentor.

Mike Bingle

Mike Bingle joined Silver Lake Partners in 2000. He is a Managing Director and co-head of North America. Mr. Bingle has significant experience in private equity, technology investing, and large-scale mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Mr. Bingle was a principal at Apollo Management, L.P., where he evaluated, executed, and harvested a wide variety of private equity investments. Before Apollo, he worked as an investment banker in the Leveraged Finance Group of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Bingle currently serves on the corporate boards of Gartner, Inc., IPC Systems, Inc. and The Gerson Lehrman Group. He's also a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of Visitors for Duke Universitys School of Engineering, as well as the External Advisory Board of McKinsey & Company. Previously Mr. Bingle was a director of Ameritrade Holding Corp., Datek Online Holdings, Inc. and Instinet, Inc. He holds a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.

Patrick Duff

A private investor, Mr. Duff was formerly a Senior Managing Director and a member of the Management Committee at Tiger Management. Prior to joining Tiger in 1989, Mr. Duff worked in asset management at Mitchell Hutchins and Capital Builders Advisory Services. A Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst, Mr. Duff has a B.S. from Lehigh University and a M.B.A. from the Columbia Graduate School of Business. Among his philanthropic endeavors is participation on the advisory board of the Association to Benefit Children.

Charles Giancarlo

Charles Giancarlo joined Silver Lake in 2007 as a Managing Director. Mr. Giancarlo has over 25 years of experience in the communications industry. A senior executive at Cisco Systems from 1993-2007, Mr. Giancarlo most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer of Cisco and President of Cisco-Linksys, leading Cisco's overall product development and management activities. As Chief Development Officer, Mr. Giancarlo directed the activities of half of Ciscos employees, and was directly responsible for Ciscos expansion into a large number of new markets and technologies. His first position at Cisco was Vice President of Business Development, where he developed Ciscos merger and acquisition strategy and practice. Mr. Giancarlo joined Cisco when the company acquired Kalpana, Inc., the pioneer in Ethernet switching, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Giancarlo founded four communications equipment companies and successfully sold two of them to larger companies. Mr. Giancarlo holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

John Goldsmith

John Goldsmith is an investor in early-stage and growth companies. Through the end of 1999 he was a partner of AEA Investors Inc., which he joined in 1989. While at AEA, Mr. Goldsmith was involved in all aspects of the investment management process including identifying, evaluating, negotiating, and financing attractive businesses, and working with their managements to plan and achieve their goals. During this period the AEA team generated net returns to investors of approximately 50% on over one billion dollars of equity. Mr. Goldsmith is a CPA (inactive), received an MBA in finance from NYU's Stern School of Business and graduated from Princeton University.

Lewis E. Lehrman

Lewis E. Lehrman, co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, is a partner in L.E. Lehrman & Co. A former candidate for governor of New York, he has been a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute, the Morgan Library, and the Heritage Foundation. He is former Chairman of the Committee on Humanities of the Yale University Council and served as Visiting Lecturer in American History at Gettysburg College.

Thomas D. Lehrman

Thomas D. Lehrman most recently served as the Director of the Office of WMD Terrorism at the U.S. Department of State and previously as a member of the professional staff on the Presidents WMD Commission. He is a co-founder and former co-Chief Executive Officer of Gerson Lehrman Group and earlier in his career worked as a financial analyst at Tiger Management. He is also co-founder and board member of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School and the Hillhouse Scholars Program. Mr. Lehrman is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from Duke University and from Yale Law School.

James Lyle

James Lyle is Chief Investment Officer of Millgate Capital, Inc., which he co-founded in 1997. From 1993 to 1997, he was a Managing Director of Tiger Management LLC, with responsibility for international equity and emerging market investment. From 1991 to 1993, he served as fund manager with Fidelity Management and Research in Boston where he was responsible for the Overseas and International Opportunity funds, as well as various institutional assets. From 1985 to 1991, he was a Vice President of Morgan Stanley, where he was responsible for European equity assets as well as for establishing the Portuguese Investment Fund (London Stock Exchange listed) and the Turkish Investment Fund (NYSE listed). He has also served as a member of the Barron's International Roundtable. He is currently Chairman of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and a trustee of the Tiger Foundation. He holds a BA from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University and served as a research officer at the London Business School, London University from 1983 to 1985.

Edward Nicoll

Mr. Nicoll is the former CEO of Instinet and Datek and the former President of Waterhouse Securities. Mr. Nicoll is the first person in the modern era to have graduated Yale Law School without having gone to college. He is a Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.

Alexander Saint-Amand

Alexander Saint-Amand is Chief Executive Officer at Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG). Before joining GLG at its inception, he worked for Bloomberg LP in New York and Frankfurt. Alexander is a graduate of the University of Virginia.

Rob Stavis

Rob Stavis is a General Partner in Bessemer Venture Partner's Larchmont, New York office. He primarily focuses on early-stage investments in financial services and in emerging software technologies. Mr. Stavis is currently involved with Gerson Lehrman Group, Portrait Software (formerly AIT Group, LSE-AIM: PST), Zopa, Revver, Pure Networks, and Quadriserv. His exited investments include SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee), PRE Solutions (acquired by Incomm), LifeHarbor (acquired by Vestmark) and Skype Technologies (purchased by E-bay in 2005), where Mr. Stavis led the A round. Prior to joining Bessemer, Mr. Stavis was a private equity investor, managing a portfolio of interests in a variety of industries including telecommunications, software, technology, gaming, and restaurants. Until July of 1998, he was the co-head of global arbitrage trading for Salomon Smith Barney. Mr. Stavis served as a member of the firm's operating committee, risk management committee, and the control and compliance committee. He has published numerous articles on derivatives pricing and risk management. Mr. Stavis holds degrees from the Engineering School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Management.