September 2, 2010
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Charles J. Burdick

Mr. Burdick has served as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors since March 2008, and has a director of the Company since December 2006. Mr. Burdick has an extensive background in telecommunications and media, with over 25 years experience in the industry.  Until July 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer of HIT Entertainment Plc, a publicly listed provider of pre-school children’s entertainment. From 1996 to 2004, Mr. Burdick worked for Telewest Communications, the second largest cable television company in the United Kingdom, serving as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer. In these roles, Mr. Burdick oversaw the financial and operational restructuring of Telewest and was responsible for leading and financing the acquisitions of a number of cable companies. Mr. Burdick has also held a series of financial positions with TimeWarner, US WEST and MediaOne, specializing in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and international treasury. Mr. Burdick currently serves as a non-executive director and audit chairman of Singer and Friedlander, a UK merchant bank, owned by the Kaupthing Group, and as a non-executive director of Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation, a commercial operator of fitness centers and CTC Media Inc., a Russian television network. Mr. Burdick holds a M.B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mr. Burdick is an independent director.

   
 

Andre Dahan

Mr. Andre Dahan is President and Chief Executive Officer of Comverse Technology, Inc., as well as a member of the Board of Directors. Before coming to Comverse, Mr. Dahan served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Multimedia Services at AT&T Wireless. Previously, he served as President of North America and Global Accounts and in several other global executive positions for Dun & Bradstreet. In addition, Mr. Dahan previously served in a variety of senior executive positions with Teradata Corp., Sequent Computer Systems and S.E. Qual, an information technology consulting firm. He began his career as a database architect and held a variety of technical positions with MALAM, IAI and IBM. Mr. Dahan serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ulticom and Verint Systems, and as a director at Red Bend Software, which provides mobile software management solutions to mobile companies worldwide. He graduated from Hadassah College in Jerusalem with a degree in software engineering.

     
 

Raz Alon

Mr. Alon has served as a director of the Company since December 2003, and served as interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company from May to November 2006. Since November 2000, Mr. Alon has served as Chairman of TopView Ventures LLC, an investment firm focused on special situation investments in a broad range of industries. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Alon served as a Director in the mergers and acquisitions department of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. with a focus on private equity and financial sponsor clients. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Alon served as a Director at SG Securities Inc., the U.S. based mergers and acquisitions and merchant banking business unit of Societe Generale SA. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Alon worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers Inc. Mr. Alon received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1991. Mr. Alon is an independent director.


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Susan D. Bowick

Ms. Bowick has served as a director of the Company since December 2006. Ms. Bowick serves as a consultant to the joint venture of Nokia Corporation and Siemens A.G. since 2006. From 1977 to 2004, Ms. Bowick served at various executive positions with Hewlett-Packard Company, a provider of information technology, infrastructure, personal computing, global services and imaging and printing, most recently as its Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Workforce Development. Ms. Bowick serves as a guest lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a founding Board member of the Washington state M.E.S.A. program engaged in the identification and retention of high potential junior high students. Ms. Bowick is currently a director of EarthLink, Inc., an Internet service provider. Ms. Bowick holds a B.S., Business Administration and Education from the University of Nebraska. Ms. Bowick is an independent director.

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Robert Dubner

Mr. Dubner, has served as a director of the Company since January 2009. Mr. Dubner is presently an independent consultant providing senior advisory services to companies, including Momentive Performance Materials Inc., a silicon manufacturing company ( since 2007), and Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation, a leading North American integrated producer of primary aluminum products and rolled aluminum coils (since 2008). Mr. Dubner previously served as an independent consultant to Covalence Specialty Materials Corp., a company which manufactures plastic packaging (from 2006 to 2007). From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Dubner was a management consulting partner and member of IBM Corporation's Business Consulting Services Global Middle Market leadership team. Mr. Dubner had previously been a partner of Coopers & Lybrand International and was a partner from 1991 to 1998, and then was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1998 to 2002, serving as the U.S. and global leader of its middle market consulting practice. He served as an elected member of Coopers & Lybrand's Board of Partners from 1995 to 1998 and PricewaterhouseCoopers' U.S. Board of Partners from 1998 to 2001. In addition, Mr. Dubner serves on the boards of directors of Hudson Highland Group, Inc., a temporary and permanent staffing company, and Perf Go Green Holdings, Inc., a marketer and distributor of biodegradable plastics.

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Richard N. Nottenburg

Dr. Nottenburg has served as a director of the Company since December 2006. Since June 2008, Dr. Nottenburg has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sonus Networks Inc., a leader in IP communications infrastructure. Prior thereto, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer for Motorola, Inc. He served as a strategic advisor to Motorola in the first half of 2004, and then joined Motorola as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. In 2005, he was named Executive Vice President. Prior to joining Motorola, Dr. Nottenburg was Vice President and General Manager of Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation after its merger with Multilink Technology Corporation in 2003. From 1995 to 2003, Dr. Nottenburg served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Multilink, a leading provider of integrated circuits and modules for next generation optical networking systems. He has earned three degrees in electrical engineering -- a doctorate from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, a master's from Colorado State University and a bachelor's from Polytechnic Institute of New York. Dr. Nottenburg is an independent director.

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Joseph O’Donnell

Mr. O’Donnell has served as a director of the Company since December 2006. Mr. O’Donnell served as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Artesyn Technologies, Inc., a supplier of power conversion equipment and real-time embedded computing solutions to telecommunications equipment suppliers, from 1994 to 2006.  Prior thereto, Mr. O’Donnell served as the Chief Executive Officer of Savin Corporation and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Go/Dan Industries.  Mr. O’Donnell serves as a director of Superior Essex, a cable and wire manufacturer, and Parametric Technology Corporation, a company engaged in product lifecycle management and enterprise content management software solutions, and is the Chairman of the University of Tennessee School of Business Advisory Board.  Mr. O’Donnell holds a B.S. and M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee. Mr. O’Donnell is an independent director.

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Augustus K. Oliver

Mr. Oliver is a managing member of Oliver Press Partners, LLC, which serves as the investment manager for Davenport Partners, L.P. and related entities.  In 1999, Mr. Oliver joined WaterView Advisors LLC, advisor to a private equity fund specializing in media and telecommunications, which he continues to oversee.  Previously, he served as a general partner of Gollust, Tierney, and Oliver, and GTO’s principal investment vehicle, Coniston Partners.  Prior thereto, he practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, most recently as a partner.  Mr. Oliver is currently a director of Scholastic Corporation, several private companies, and Lincoln Center Theatre of New York City.  He graduated from Yale University in 1971 and summa cum laude from the American University Law School in 1975.  Mr. Oliver is an independent director.

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A. Alex Porter

Mr. Porter is a founder and principal of Porter, Orlin LLC since 1976.  In that capacity, he serves as General Partner of Amici Associates, The Collectors’ Fund, Amici Fund International, Amici Qualified Associates, Amici Global Partners, Nippon Partners, Amici Healthcare, Lightpath Capital and Amici Global International.  Mr. Porter has been a Trustee of Davidson College since 1992, and also serves on the Board of Queens College.  He is a founder and Director of Distribution Technology, Inc. since 1968.  He serves on the Board of Student Loan Marketing Association, the Board of The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and on the Board of the Library of America.  Mr. Porter is also a General Partner of The Caroline Company, a venture capital company. He is a graduate of Davidson College.  Mr. Porter is an independent director.

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Theodore H. Schell

Mr. Schell has served as a director of the Company since December 2006. Mr. Schell is currently a Managing Director at Liberty Associated Partners LLP, a private equity firm focusing on media and telecommunications prior to which he held the position of Managing Director at Apax Partners where he oversaw U.S. investments in telecommunications and related technology companies.  Mr. Schell served for 11 years as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development and as a member of the Management Committee at Sprint Corporation. Before joining Sprint, Mr. Schell was the founder, President and CEO of Realcom Communications Corporation, an integrated provider of voice and data services to corporate clients. He serves as a director of RCN Corporation, a provider of video, high-speed data and voice services.  Mr. Schell also serves as advisor to national and international cable television, telecommunications and financial services firms.  Mr. Schell is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Mr. Schell is an independent director.

 
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Mark Terrell

Mr. Terrell served as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors from December 2006 to March 2008, and has served as a director of the Company since July 2006. Mr. Terrell served as the Partner in Charge and Executive Director of KPMG's Audit Committee Institute (“ACI”) from 2000 to 2004, in which capacity he established the ACI mission and strategy. Mr. Terrell was a KPMG audit engagement partner from 1979 to 2000 and acted, from 1985 to 2000, as the Office Managing Partner of three KPMG offices -- El Paso, Texas; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and St. Petersburg, Florida. During Mr. Terrell's thirty-five year career in public accounting he served on a number of not-for-profit boards in each of the communities in which he practiced, and he has spoken extensively on both audit committee and broader corporate governance issues. Since his retirement from KPMG in 2004, Mr. Terrell has participated extensively as a faculty member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Mr. Terrell received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1967. Mr. Terrell is an independent director.

   
 
     
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