Mr. Hobbs is the President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Phoenix Technologies. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hobbs served as president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of Intellisync Corporation, a provider of platform-independent wireless messaging and mobile software, from 2002 to 2006. Between 1995 and 2002, Mr. Hobbs was a consulting executive for the venture capital community and a strategic systems consultant to large corporations. During this timeframe, he held the position of interim chief executive officer for various periods at the following companies: FaceTime Communications, a provider of instant messaging network-independent business solutions; Tradenable, Inc., an online escrow service company; BigBook, Inc., a provider in the online yellow pages industry; and I/PRO Corporation, a provider of quantitative measurement of Web site usage. From 1993 to 1994, Mr. Hobbs served as chief executive officer of Tesseract Corporation, a human resources outsourcing and software company. Mr. Hobbs spent the early part of his career with Charles Schwab Corporation, a securities brokerage and financial services company, as chief information officer; with Service Bureau, a division of IBM, as a developer; and with Online Focus, an online credit union system, as the director of operations.
Richard Arnold
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Arnold is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Phoenix. Before Phoenix, Mr. Arnold served as a member of the board of the Intellisync Corporation from 2004 to 2006. From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Arnold served as a founding partner of Committed Capital Proprietary Limited, a private equity investment company based in Sydney, Australia. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Arnold served as executive director of Consolidated Press Holdings Limited, also a private investment company based in Sydney. Mr. Arnold has also previously served as managing director of TD Waterhouse Australia, a securities dealer; as chief executive officer of Integrated Decisions and Systems, Inc., an application software company; as managing director of Eagleroo Proprietary Limited, a corporate advisory company; and in various capacities with Charles Schwab Corporation, a securities brokerage and financial services company, including serving as chief financial officer and as executive vice president strategy and corporate development. Mr. Arnold holds a B.S. degree in psychology from Stanford University.
Dr. Gaurav Banga
Chief Technology Officer and Head of Products
Dr. Banga is the Chief Technology Officer and Head of Products at Phoenix Technologies. Prior to joining the Company, he was vice president of product management at Intellisync (and at Nokia Corp., after its acquisition of Intellisync), responsible for all client-side products. Before Intellisync, Dr. Banga was co-founder and chief executive officer of PDAapps, the creator of VeriChat, a mobile instant messaging solution. PDAapps was acquired by Intellisync in 2005. From 1998 to 2003, Dr. Banga was a senior engineer at Network Appliance. Dr. Banga holds a B.Tech. in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Rice University.
Timothy Chu
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Timothy Chu is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to Phoenix, Mr. Chu served as Director of
Corporate Legal Affairs at Solectron Corporation, a leading global
provider of supply chain and electronics manufacturing solutions, where
he was responsible for corporate governance and securities matters and
all acquisition, divestiture and other corporate transactions. Prior to
Solectron, he was a Senior Attorney at Venture Law Group, where he
represented numerous Silicon Valley technology companies and was a
member of the firm's mergers and acquisitions group. Mr. Chu began his
legal career as an associate in the New York and Helsinki offices of
White & Case LLP, where he focused on banking, public offering and
private placement transactions. He received his B.A. in Economics and
Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Michigan and his
J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Dave Deasy
Senior Vice President, WorldWide Direct Sales and Marketing
Mr. Deasy is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Direct Sales. He has 20 years experience building and managing successful businesses in consumer, small business, and enterprise markets. In addition to working with online businesses for the past 10 years, he brings hands-on experience in sales, business development, direct marketing, e-commerce, marcom, & product management. Prior to Phoenix, Mr. Deasy was at MarketTools, the #1 online market research company. Before MarketTools, he founded and ran an online corporate gift company, spent 3 years with AOL, and 12 years with HP. At AOL he was VP of Operations for the Small Business Group and VP of Business Development for the Enterprise Software Group. At HP, Mr. Deasy served in a variety of marketing management and e-commerce executive roles - including founder and COO for HP's highly successful e-commerce business hpshopping.com.
David Gibbs
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Worldwide Field Operations
Mr. Dave Gibbs is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Field Operations at Phoenix. Prior to Phoenix, Mr. Gibbs served as Vice president, sales and Asia Pacific strategic accounts manager at FlashPoint Technologies, a company that provides embedded software solutions. Before FlashPoint, Mr. Gibbs was vice president of sales at DocuMagix, Inc. and he also held a number of executive sales and business development positions at Insignia Solutions. Mr. Gibbs holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.