Jack Lazar
Board Member, Box, Global Foundries, Resideo Technologies, thredUP, Tonal
Jack has over 30 years of Silicon Valley experience with a focus on finance and operations. He has served in executive leadership roles at GoPro, Qualcomm, Atheros, NetRatings, Apptitude, and Electronics for Imaging. He was part of teams that took four of these companies public and CFO for 3 of the IPOs. In his operating and Board of Director roles, Jack has been part of over $30 billion in M&A, divestiture, equity, spin and debt transactions, completed five additional IPOs as a Board member and been part of a successful activist defense. Jack is currently on the Boards of Box (BOX), Global Foundries (GFS), Resideo (REZI) and thredUP (TDUP). He also consults with a variety of private companies including Astera Labs as a member of the Board and Tonal as the Chairman of the Board. Jack was previously on the boards of Casper Sleep (CSPR), Mellanox (MLNX), Quantenna Communications (QTNA), TubeMogul (TUBE), eero and Tile. Three of these companies went public while he was a director and all were eventually acquired. He served for nine years on the Board of Silicon Labs (SLAB) during which its market capitalization increased over 400%. Jack is also on the Board of the Northern California chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as well as the Advisory Boards for the Accounting and Finance departments at Santa Clara University. He earned a B.S.c with an emphasis in accounting from Santa Clara University and is a certified public accountant (inactive).