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Charles H. Giancarlo

Managing Director and Head of Value Creation, Silver Lake

Age	Total Calculated Compensation	This person is connected to 11 Board Members in 11 different organizations across 15 different industries. See Board Relationships
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Mr. Charles H. Giancarlo, Charlie serves as Member of the Strategic Advisory Team at Feeva Technology, Inc. Mr. Giancarlo serves as Managing Director of Silver Lake Partners IV, L.P. He serves as the Managing Director and Head of Value Creation at Silver Lake. He joined Silver Lake in December 2007. He is a Seasoned Executive with more than 30 years of experience in the communications industry. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Avaya Inc. from ... June 30, 2008 to December 22, 2008. He served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer at Avaya until 2008. He served as Senior Executive at Cisco Systems, from 1993 to 2007. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems, Inc. since August 2004 and served as its Senior Vice-President. He served as the Chief Development Officer at Cisco Systems Inc., from July 31, 2005 to January 2008 and served as its Executive Vice President until January 2008. He directed the activities of half of Cisco’s employees, and was directly responsible for Cisco’s expansion into a large number of new markets and technologies. He served as the Head of Voice and Home Networking Business at Cisco Systems Inc. His first position at Cisco was Vice President of Business Development, where he developed Cisco’s merger and acquisition strategy and practice. Mr. Giancarlo also served as the President of Cisco-Linksys, LLC since June 2003. He served as Senior Vice President of the Switching Voice & Storage Groups at Cisco Systems, Inc. since May 2002. Prior to joining Cisco, he served as the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at Kalpana, Inc. (also known as Kalpana Corporation) from July 1993 to December 1994. He served as Senior Vice President of NetSys Technologies. He founded four communications equipment companies. He founded and served as Vice President of Marketing at Adaptive Corporation. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Avaya Holdings Corp. He has been the Chairman of Avaya Inc. since December 22, 2008 and has been its Director since June 30, 2008. He has been a Director of Imperva Inc. since May 30, 2013. Mr. Giancarlo serves as an Independent Board Member of Blue Jeans Network, Inc. He has been a Director of Accenture plc since December 15, 2008 and Skype Global S.à r.l. since December 2009. He serves as a Director of Soraa, Inc., Vantage, and Mercury Payment Systems, LLC. Mr. Giancarlo has been a Member of Advisory Board of Coraid Inc., since January 2010. He serves on the Advisory Board of the UC Berkeley School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and is a Trustee of Brown University. He served as a Director of Skype Limited, Mirapoint Software, Inc. and InfoGear Technology Corporation. Mr. Giancarlo served as an Independent Director of Netflix, Inc., from April 4, 2007 to May 2, 2012. He served as a Director of SEEQ Technology, Inc. since August 1997 and Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. since January 4, 2008. In 2007, he was named to Network World’s list of the “Top 50 Most Powerful People in Networking” for the fourth year in a row. Mr. Giancarlo holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.

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