Biography

Barbara Nelson has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2020. Ms. Nelson has also served as a board member for GSI Technology, Inc., a publicly traded semiconductor and SaaS company, since August 2021, and Omniscient Technology (o8t), a private company pioneering AI applied to brain connectivity, since October 2022. Ms. Nelson was the Vice President of Cloud Services, Software and Strategy of Western Digital Corporation, a hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company, from May 2017 to April 2020. Prior to Western Digital Corporation, Ms. Nelson served as the General Manager and Executive Vice President of IronKey Mobile Security at Imation Corporation from 2013 to 2016. From July 2008 to March 2010, Ms. Nelson was the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Element Labs, a private company and from October 2003 to December 2007, she was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the board of directors of NeoScale Systems, a private company. Ms. Nelson earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.