EXTREME NETWORKS INC (EXTR)
Sector: Information Technology
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Information Technology
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Director information for EXTR
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXTR | Board Chair | 82 | ["leadership", "technology management", "operational management", "financial expertise", "M&A"] | ["Nom Gov (Chair)", "Compensation"] | 2025 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Mr. Shoemaker has served as one of our directors since October 2007 and has been the Chair of the Board since February 2017. He currently serves as a consultant to the high technology industry and also serves as a mentor to corporate executives. Since April 2023, Mr. Shoemaker has served as an advisor/investor of TalentSky, Inc., a private startup in the career development space. He served as a director for NYRIAD, a privately-held software development company, from 2017 until 2025, and served on the board of directors of Altera Corporation, a publicly-traded provider of programmable logic solutions, from 2007 until it was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2015. Mr. Shoemaker was a member of the board of directors of SonicWall, a then publicly-traded firewall and cybersecurity solutions company, from 2004 to 2010, serving as its chair from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Shoemaker is a member of the Board of Trustees at Hanover College and a member of the Indiana University School of Business Dean s Advisory Council for the school of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship Board. Mr. Shoemaker's executive management experience includes various positions from 1990 to 2004 at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he held roles that included EVP, Worldwide Operations Organizations and EVP and General Manager for its Computer Systems Division. Mr. Shoemaker previously held a number of senior executive positions with the Xerox Corporation, a provider of document management technology and services, including as SVP, World Wide Marketing. Mr. Shoemaker earned a B.A. in political science and business administration from Hanover College and a M.B.A. from Indiana University s Kelley School of Business. Mr. Shoemaker was named the Entrepreneur of the Year by the Kelley School of Business in 2019 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree that same year. Mr. Shoemaker brings to the Board his extensive executive experience in senior level management positions in the technology industry, particularly in hardware systems, and provides strong operational, management and financial expertise to our Board.