Board of Directors

Gordon Davidson
Fenwick & West LLP

Mr. Davidson is a partner in the Corporate Group and Chairman of Fenwick & West LLP. Mr. Davidson advises high technology companies, including networking, computer software and electronics companies as well as medical technology companies. Mr. Davidson's clients range from start-ups to Fortune 1000 companies. He has worked on over 30 public offerings.

Mr. Davidson also advises investors and investment banks, including Barclays Global Investors, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Morgan Stanley and Sequoia Capital.

He has also acted as lead counsel on over 100 mergers and acquisitions valued at more than $50 billion.

Mr. Davidson was recognized by the National Law Journal in 2000 and 2006 as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America, by Upside Magazine in October 2001 as one of "100 People Who Changed Our World," by California Lawyer Magazine in August 2004 as one of the ten best corporate lawyers in California, by San Francisco Magazine in August 2004 as one of the ten best lawyers in Northern California, by Forbes Magazine's "Midas List" as one of the top 100 venture capital deal makers in every year the list has been published (2001 and 2004-2007) and by Chambers USA in its first tier of Corporate/M&A attorneys in the U.S. He is one of only two lawyers in the United States to be named by BTI Consulting to its "All Star Team" for each of the last five years for outstanding client service based on a survey of Fortune 1000 companies.

Mr. Davidson is a member of the State Bar of California. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1970 from Stanford University and a Masters of Science in Computer Systems from Stanford in 1971. Prior to and during law school, Mr. Davidson worked as a computer systems engineer at Stanford Research Institute and at Measurex Corporation. Following law school, he was a law clerk with the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.