Mr. Jones became a director of Wind River in February 2004. Mr. Jones is the Chairman of the Board of Tensilica, Inc., a privately held company he cofounded in 1997. Tensilica designs and licenses application-specific microprocessors for use in high-volume embedded systems. From December 1987 through February 1998, Mr. Jones held various positions at Synopsys, Inc., where he served as Chief Executive Officer through January 1994 and as Executive Chairman of the Board until February 1998. Prior to Synopsys, Mr. Jones served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Daisy Systems Corporation, a computer-aided engineering company that he cofounded in 1981. He currently serves on the board of NVIDIA Corporation, a manufacturer of graphics chips, and on the boards of various privately held companies. Mr. Jones holds a BS degree in mathematics and computer sciences from Georgetown University and an MS in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |