Mr. Botts has over 40 years of management experience having been President, CEO or Chairman of the Board of more than 15 public and private companies since 1978. His major focus has been in the high tech arena including software, computer systems, semiconductors and services. He has been active in recent years with companies requiring turnaround help in both the high tech and consumer products segments. He has served in director roles for public and private corporations as well as charitable and non-profit boards. He is presently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Project.net (project execution software) and Astute Networks (network acceleration semiconductors) and is an outside director for HK Plastics (manufacturing) and Buck Knives (consumer products). Mr. Botts has BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from California Polytechnic University and did graduate work in Nuclear Engineering at UCLA. |