Leadership
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Board of Directors | Leadership Council Board of Directors |
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Michael Ashby, Executive Vice President and CFO, Calix |
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Michael has been working in the technology sector for the last 20 years and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Calix Networks. Prior to retiring as CFO of Calix, he was VP of Finance at Cisco Sytems which he joined as a result of the acquisition of Cerent where he was CFO. Previously he was CFO of Ascend Communications and before that CFO of Pacific Bell. Earlier Michael was CEO at Network Systems and CFO at Teradata Corporation. Michael is a US citizen but was born and educated in the UK. He lives in the San Francisco East Bay with his two teenage children. Michael has a very strong interest in the early detection of cancer and has himself had prostate cancer on two occasions. He has been cancer free for over three years now, and counting. |
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Rob Lynch, President and COO Lumber Liquidators Holdings |
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Robert M. Lynch is president and chief operating officer since January 2011. Prior to assuming this position, from 2004 to 2010, he served as president and chief executive officer of Orchard Supply Hardware, a member of the Sears Holdings Corporation family of companies. He worked at The Home Depot, Inc. from 1998 to 2004 in various store operations and business development positions. In 2003, Mr. Lynch was named by Chain Store Age as one of the "Rising Retail Stars: 40 Executives Under 40". He currently serves as a member of the Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, City of Hope National Medical Center Home Improvement Industry Executive Council and Co-Chairman of the Charlie Wedemeyer Foundation Annual Celebration of Hope.Mr. Lynch has also held positions at Accenture Consulting, Ernst & Young in the National Consumer Products & Retail Consulting Practice and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Mr. Lynch holds an M.B.A. from The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and a B.S. in psychology with an emphasis on human resource management from Brigham Young University. |
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Michael Ball, CEO, GenoLogics |
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Mr. Ball joined GenoLogics as CEO in 2004 to secure the Series A round of venture capital funding for GenoLogics and lead the company in its next phase of growth. Michael has 20 years experience in sales, marketing and business development with high growth technology companies. Previously, Michael held executive positions at various technology companies including five years in management with Creo Products Inc. as VP Business Development and VP European Sales and Service. Mr. Ball was a member of Creo’s executive team from 1995-2000, during which time the company’s revenue increased from $70 million to $700 million. In addition to his Creo experience, Michael was a VP at Carmanah Technologies, spent seven years at Digital Equipment Corp. and has been involved with several technology start-ups. |
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Kevin Kennedy, CEO, Avaya |
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Kevin Kennedy is the Chief Executive Officer of Avaya Corporation. Prior to Avaya, Kevin was CEO of JDS Uniphase. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Openwave Systems, Inc. from August 2001 to September 2003. Prior to joining Openwave Systems, Kennedy spent seven years at Cisco Systems, Inc., as Senior Vice President of the Service Provider Line of Business and Software Technologies Division, and seventeen years at Bell Laboratories as well. In 1987, Kennedy was a congressional fellow to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Polycom Corporation and is a member of the Board of Directors of KLA Tencor Corporation. Kennedy is a member of the Board of Regents of Loyola Marymount University. Kennedy holds engineering degrees, including: a B.S. from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He also completed the Executive Business Program at the University of Michigan in 1992. Kennedy was an adjunct professor at Rutgers from 1982-1984 and has published more than 30 papers on computational methods, data networking, and issues of technology management. In 2006, Kennedy was honored by the School of Engineering at Rutgers as their alumnus of the year and awarded an Alumni Medal of Excellence. He is a co-author of Going the Distance, a book published by Prentice Hall. |
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Don Listwin, Founder and Chairman, Canary Foundation |
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A twenty-five year veteran of the technology industry – previously the CEO of Sana Security, Openwave and Executive Vice President at Cisco Systems – Listwin walked away from his high profile technology career and launched Canary Foundation in 2004. Motivated by a personal experience with cancer – Listwin’s father is a colon cancer survivor, and his mother died of ovarian cancer – he has committed his life to advancing the early detection diagnostics. Thus far, Listwin has pledged over $22 million for early cancer detection research. Listwin serves on the Board of Directors of GenoLogics Life Sciences, Public Library of Science, Calix Networks, Clustrix Systems, Stratos Biosciences and the Listwin Family Foundation. He is on the External Advisory Board for the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) at Stanford and a member of the Stanford Advisory Board for the Canary Center at Stanford. Don is a member of the Board of Trustees at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and also serves as a member of The Melanoma Cancer Center at The Moffitt Cancer Center. Last year, he was appointed to the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors. A native of Canada, Listwin holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and an honorary doctorate of law from the University of Saskatchewan. |
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Dale Jantzen |
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Dale has over 20 years of product management and marketing experience in the telecommunications industry. He most recently served as the President of the San Jose Grand Prix for three years. Dale earned his BSEE at the University of Saskatchewan, 1982. For the next 8 years, he served as Marketing Director for Develcon Electronics. Dale then moved on to hold similar positions at Alberta Microelectronics Centre and then at Sci-Tec Instruments Ltd. During Dale's eight year tenure at Cisco Systems, he held the positions of Product Line Manager, Director of Marketing and Director of Business Development. More recently, Dale has served as Director, Product Management for Luminous Networks, Inc.; Vice President of Tiara Networks; and Director, Product Management for Procket Networks, Inc. Throughout his career, Dale has managed large teams of technical product management and marketing professionals, while overseeing multi-million dollar project accounts. Dale possesses a wealth of technical skills and depth of leadership experience. |
Leadership CouncilCommunity leaders who are committed to supporting Canary Foundation’s innovations in cancer early detection.
Bill Bowes, Founding Partner US Venture Partners, Co-Chair Members:
Charles Beeler, Partner El Dorado Ventures |
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