Leon D. Shapiro has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2004. Mr. Shapiro was most recently Group President of The NPD Group, Inc., a global provider of consumer and retail information where he lead all their technology related businesses. From 1989 to 2004, Mr. Shapiro was with Gartner, Inc., the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, where he served as President, Gartner Executive Programs and was a member of the Gartner Leadership Team. Previously Mr. Shapiro was senior vice president and general manager of Gartner Community, which included Gartner’s Worldwide Events, Best Practices and Executive Programs business divisions, where he built the world’s largest CIO membership program. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. |