Carl Everett

Bio

Mr Everett invests time as an active advisor and board member to new technology companies. During his career at Intel and Dell, Mr Everett sponsored many new startup projects inside the companies and also reached outside to champion corporate venture investments such as Rambus (NASDAQ: RMBS) at Intel, and the Chinese internet portal Sina.com (NASDAQ: SINA), and VMware (NYSE: VMW) at Dell. Mr Everett has been actively involved with Accel portfolio companies in applications software, high end communications and semiconductor technology sectors. Mr Everett served as senior vice president of Dell Computer Corporation's Personal Systems Group. He was responsible for worldwide development and marketing of all Dell desktop, workstation and notebook product lines, as well as the strategic technology direction for Dell's award-winning client systems. Prior to Dell, Mr Everett enjoyed a 20-year career with Intel Corporation leading many of Intel's strategic efforts in setting industry and technology directions. He became an Intel vice president in 1989, overseeing North American sales and later all worldwide sales and marketing organizations. In 1994, he became senior vice president and general manager of Intel's successful Microprocessor Products Group. Mr Everett is a member of the Board of Directors at FormFactor (NASDAQ: FORM) a publicly traded company and the leader in advanced silicon wafer probe technology. In addition Mr Everett serves as a Board Member at NetXen, a silicon valley startup focused in high performance networking and protocol processing. Mr Everett holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from New Mexico State University. In 1992, he was named NMSU's Distinguished Alumni and in 1997 he was inducted into the university's College of Business Hall of Fame. In 2005 NMSU recognized Carl with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.