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LaMont Chappell

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chappell Consulting San Jose, CA 4/2009 - Current

President

Business Consulting

. Current assignment with a leading information technology company,

providing merger & acquisition, and integration services for US based

and India offshore business growth.

. Exclusive consulting assignment with Robert Johnson & Associates, a

leading litigation-economics consulting firm.

. Providing economic, non-economic and punitive damages business case

analysis

. Supporting the legal community with expert testimony for deposition

and court proceedings

. Experts in client wage loss analysis, loss of enjoyment of life & loss

of care, society and consortium

Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA 2008 - 4/2009

Senior Managing Partner

Business Operations

. Managing Partner to Microsoft's Connected Systems Division, with

responsibility for business operations and engineering support for

Windows, BizTalk, .Net & Server business units

. Management responsibility for Operations, Engineering Labs, Automation

and Test teams

. Executive responsibility for offshore vendor companies in China and

India, including negotiation of multi-year contracts and partnerships,

budget and forecast

. Key executive to division President for business and financial

planning

. Responsibility for capacity planning and metrics for multiple

engineering teams of build, test, automation and imaging technical

professionals

. Executive responsibility for key suppliers for cross division hardware

support including HP, IBM, Dell and Samsung. Savings in FY09 exceeded

$30M on hardware and software purchases

Chappell Consulting San Jose, CA 2001 - 2003 & 2006

- 2007

President

Business Consulting

. Consultant to emerging and Fortune 500 companies in the areas of

business development, technology licensing, business strategy, mergers

& acquisitions, and M & A integration.

. Providing services in software licensing, business plan development,

including ROI methodology, intellectual property assessment,

litigation research and patent portfolio analysis.

. Consultant to a Stanford based technology start-up on business plan

development and strategy

. Fortune 100 consultant on international business partnerships

. Providing services in software licensing, intellectual property

assessment, litigation research and patent portfolio analysis.

Sun Microsystems 1996 - 2001 & 2004 - 2006

Senior Manager - Business Development

Operations/Business Development / Licensing / Strategic Partnerships

Microelectronics Operations

. Senior manager responsibility for $100M Sun Microelectronics Vendor

Management Group

. Senior negotiator for multi-million dollar microelectronics hardware &

software acquisitions

. Successfully negotiated $10M reduction in licensing costs for Scalable

Systems Group (SSG)

. Key executive to SVP of Scalable Systems Group (SSG)

. Overall budget and financial management for SSG

. Vendor relationship management responsibility for Electronic

Automation Design tools providers

. Critical business resource to executive legal management

. Early contributor in OpenSparc open source initiative

JavaSoft Business Operations

. Designed and executed a co-development, cross-license agreement (with

a minority stake) with Tibco. Addressing a middleware layer gap in

Sun's software stack, while netting Sun a $120 million net profit.

. Managed JavaSoft business development team in defining a strategy

roadmap for Java technology to span mainframes to smartcards. Sourced

and identified a Java based smartcard technology in production

resulting in the acquisition of Integrity Arts from France based

GemPlus.

. Identified small startup with blazing fast compiler and engineering

expertise to support and remedy customer satisfaction issues with the

speed of the Java Runtime Engine. Managed and lead the business

development team and negotiated terms with LongView Systems and its

subsidiary Animorphic for "Hot Spot" technology. This resulted in a

significant increase in Java adoption and a key factor in the success

of the Java Platform.

. Best Practices Award in 2001 from the Sun executive team.

Storage Products Operations

. Lead cross-functional team of engineers, marketing and sales managers

in the development of the storage service provider business for

Network Storage division. Providing Sun a presence in the emerging

storage marketplace.

. Developed the competitive analysis processes for the evaluation of

storage service provider partner candidates, leading to the successful

identification of an acquisition target for this key storage

technology. Managed technology and licensing contracts for Network

Storage, utilizing extensive experience in licensing, negotiation and

deal structuring.

. Acquired significant storage systems knowledge including SAN software,

storage virtualization and industry competitive analysis expertise.

Siebel Systems San Mateo, California 2004

Senior Manager - Business Development & Licensing

Business Development / Licensing / Alliance Management

. Provide executive relationship management to key Fortune 500 accounts

for Siebel Systems.

. Direct key licensing negotiations as the primary Siebel executive.

. Provide division support in strategy and product development.

. Direct Supplier OEM strategies for executive management.

. Director responsibility for Supplier Management and key account

executive management.

. Manage Siebel Legal issues for executive staff.

Apple Computer, Inc. Cupertino, CA 1992 - 1996

Senior Manager - Technology Licensing & Business Development

. Key executive in the Mac OS Licensing group on inbound and outbound

technology licensing. Headed the Internet Products Group worldwide

technology licensing efforts, which centered on meta-data technology

innovations and other leading edge Internet product offerings.

Strategic partners included Mitsubishi, Nokia, Ericsson, and other

multinational companies.

. Substantial business development responsibility for Asia and European

markets. Primary focus on Japanese technology companies.

Planning Manager - Finance Business Unit

. Managed the product planning and portfolio analysis for the PowerBook

R&D division. Had decision making authority for the financial

planning aspects of R&D investment and divestment strategies.

International Business Machines San Jose, CA 1977 - 1992

Senior Manager & Development Manager

Software

. Responsible for the IBM Santa Teresa Lab database software products

business partnerships

strategy. Provided global software licensing management for major

IBM software products, IMS DB2 and other relational database

software product lines.

Drove high level negotiations on price and terms for the local

division, and corporate directed alliances.

. Key manager in an elite team of three senior managers, assigned to

develop the Santa Teresa Lab product direction and road map

analysis, to determine IBM investment strategies in the database

software marketplace. Santa Teresa revenues at the time were over

$2 billion per year, which our team had direct responsibility for

the investment plans, competitive analysis, market segmentation,

new product introductions and divestment strategies.

Operations

. Corporate business planning responsibilities for the Tucson storage

products supply chain. Developed the operating plan for

manufacturing scheduling, which included the inter-divisional

negotiation process at corporate headquarters in New York, for the

spring and fall cycles.

Had significant responsibility for managing the semiconductor

business relationship with IBM Burlington. Including providing

input on semiconductor roadmaps and strategy.

. Start up responsibility for the production of the 3380 Head Disk

Assembly products San Jose. Managed three departments of assembly,

head manufacturing and test. Managed up to 35 employees,

technicians and managers for the San Jose site.

. Held senior positions in the business and commodity planning group,

General Product's division storage products group, San Jose site.

Our group had responsibility for planning the raw materials as part

of the MRP planning for manufacturing build of materials.

. Six Sigma Certification from the San Jose Disk Storage Division

EDUCATION

MBA - San Jose State University

B. S. Business Administration - San Jose State University

Executive education credit from the Wharton School, University of

Pennsylvania

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity - Alumni Chapter

Jack & Jill of America

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