Board and Non-Executive Director Roles

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories, assets of $2.9tn, over 200,000 employees and 40mm customers worldwide.    

Forrit is a born in the cloud company that helps organizations migrate their on-premises web assets to the cloud. Forrit CMS, their flag-ship platform, provides a single PaaS solution, to migrate existing web infrastructure to a cloud-native web content management and deployment platform.  The Forrit CMS provides global scale, security and management by building on Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure and tools. 

Software Acquisition Group Inc. is a newly organized blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.  SWAG I acquired Curiositystream and SWAG II is on path to combine with Otonomo, and SWAG III is now listed.

MUZIK was founded to bring the world together through personalized experiences that enable us to connect in ways we never imagined. The convergence of culture and technology inspired the company's founder and CEO, Jason Hardi, to develop and design unique devices that are powered by Smartware® and connected to a digital platform that sparks our senses through original content and curated programming. The company has been issued over 130+ patents and trademarks and received five CES innovation awards for technological inventions in connected devices and platforms.  

Tensility Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in seed+ stage companies that will revolutionize business by delivering the promise of AI to the enterprise. They look for entrepreneurs that do what has never been done before in the areas of:  Cyber Security, Digital Health, and Vertical Industry Applications. Tensility believes in the primacy of artificial intelligence and predictive analytics for doing incredible things.  

The 5G Open Innovation Lab is a global ecosystem for developers, enterprises, wireless carriers and technology leaders. We’re working together with start-ups to go beyond the hype and fuel the development of new 5G powered capabilities, use cases and market categories that will transform the way we work, live and play both now and in the future 

The External Advisory Board (EAB) convenes annually to review the U.C. Davis Physics Department.  The purpose of these reviews is to take input from students, staff, faculty and administrators to help identify opportunities for improvement within the department and then provide recommendations on how to address those opportunities.