from 2009 to 2011. Prior to Yahoo!, Carol spent 14 years leading Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a design and engineering and gaming software company, as chief executive officer and a member of its board, positions she held from 1992 to 2006, and then transitioned to a role as its Executive Chairman from 2006 to 2009. Earlier in her career, Carol held several business leadership positions at Sun Microsystems (formerly NASDAQ: SUNW), a computer sales company, as an executive officer of the company. Carol served as Chairman of the Board of Caliva, a cannabis company, since 2018, until it was acquired by Subversive Capital Acquisition Capital in the largest cannabis SPAC to date in January 2021, and led to the launch of The Parent Company, California’s largest vertically integrated cannabis operation, where Carol continues to serve on the board. Carol has served on many other public company boards, including Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ: CDNS), Airtouch (formerly NASDAQ: ATCH), BEA Systems (formerly NASDAQ: BEAS), NetAPP (NASDAQ: NTAP) and the NYSE. Carol has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Carol will be a valuable member of our board due to her strong leadership style, her role as a prominent business leader in the technology sector, and her previous experience with a SPAC.
Carl Bass, a director, is a board member for public technology companies and has held multiple executive roles in the technology industry. Carl has served as the lead independent director of Zendesk Inc. (NYSE: ZEN), a customer service software company, since 2016, where he is the chair of its compensation committee, and as a director at Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), a cloud software company, since 2020. Carl also serves on the board of directors of other technology companies including Arris Composites, Built Robotics, Bright Machines, Formlabs, nTopology and Planet Labs. Previously, Carl served as the president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a software company, from 2006 to 2017. Carl spent 24 years at Autodesk, where he held other executive positions including chief technology officer and chief operating officer. Prior to Autodesk, Carl co-founded Ithaca Software and Buzzsaw.com (both acquired by Autodesk). In the last five years, Carl served on the board of directors of Autodesk and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), a provider of software and technology. He also served on the board of E2open, Inc., a software company, until it was acquired by Insight Venture Partners in March 2015. Carl serves on the board of trustees of the California College of the Arts; and on the advisory boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science, UC Berkeley School of Information, and UC Berkeley College of Engineering. Carl has a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University. Carl is a valuable member of our board due to his executive experience in the technology sector and public company board experience at technology companies.
John R. Egan, a director, is a founding managing partner of Egan-Managed Capital, a Boston-based technology venture capital fund specializing in New England, information technology, early stage investments, and has been a managing partner of Carruth Associates, a financial services firm, since 1998. Jack was a member of the board of directors at EMC Corporation (formerly NYSE: EMC), a technology company, from 1992 to 2016, and served as the Chairman of the M&A Committee and a member of the Finance Committee. Additionally, Jack was an executive at EMC Corporation from 1986 to 1998, where he held positions such as executive vice president of operations, executive vice president of products and offerings, and executive vice president of sales and marketing. Jack has been on the board of NetScout Systems (NASDAQ: NTCT), a provider of application and network performance management products, since 2000, where he is currently lead director, and a member of its audit committee, finance committee and compensation committee, Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a business software company, since 2011, where he is currently the non-executive chairman and a member of its nominating and governance committee, Verint Systems (NASDAQ: VRNT), an analytics company, since 2012, where he is currently the lead director and chair of its corporate governance and nominating committee and a member of its compensation committee, and Trilio, Inc., a data protection company, since 2018. In the last five years, in addition to being a member of the board at EMC Corporation, Jack also served on the board of VMWare (NYSE: VMW), a software company. Jack is on the board of trustees of Boston College and Saint Columbkille Partnership School. Jack has a B.S. in computer science and marketing from Boston College. Jack will be a valuable member of our board due to his investment experience, public board experience, and experience within the technology and financial services industry.
James Heppelmann, a director, has been the president and chief executive officer of PTC, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTC), a publicly-traded computer software company, since 2010 and is responsible for driving PTC’s global business strategy and operations. Jim joined PTC in 1998 when the company acquired Windchill Technologies, where he was co-founder, chief technology officer, and vice president of marketing from