SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble
(NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that Borje
Ekholm and Kaigham Gabriel have agreed to stand for election
to serve on its Board of Directors. The election will be held at
Trimble's Annual Shareholders Meeting on May
7, 2015.
Borje Ekholm
Borje Ekholm has been president
and chief executive officer, as well as a board member, of Investor
AB since September 2005 and has
announced that he will be stepping down from these positions in
May 2015. Ekholm joined Investor AB
in 1992 as an associate in the company's corporate finance
department. From 1995 to 1997, he founded and managed Novare
Kapital, an early stage venture capital company owned by Investor
AB. From 1997 until August 2005, he
was responsible for new investment activities within Investor AB
and was a member of Investor AB's Management Group. Ekholm is
chairman of the board of Nasdaq OMX and the KTH Royal Institute of
Technology. Other board assignments include Telefonaktiebolaget LM
Ericsson and Choate Rosemary Hall.
Ekholm has a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD,
France. He also holds a Master of
Science in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of
Technology in Stockholm.
Kaigham Gabriel
Ken Gabriel is the president and
chief executive officer of The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, an
independent not-for-profit research institution that develops
innovative technology solutions in the fields of national security,
space, biomedical systems and energy. He has held that position
since October 2014. Prior to that,
Dr. Gabriel served as deputy director of the Advanced Technology
and Projects (ATAP) group at Google from 2012 to 2014 and as
corporate vice president at Google/Motorola Mobility. From 2009 to
2012, he was the deputy director, and then acting director, of the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the Department
of Defense. Between 2002 and 2009, Dr. Gabriel was the co-founder,
chairman and chief technology officer of Akustica, a fabless
semiconductor company that commercialized Micro Electro Mechanical
Systems audio devices and sensors. Dr. Gabriel holds SM and ScD
degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
John Goodrich
Trimble also announced that John B.
Goodrich will retire from its Board of Directors at the end
of his term, which concludes on May 7,
2015, at the Company's Annual Shareholders Meeting. He has
served on Trimble's Board since 1981. He retired in 2002 from the
law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich
and Rosati where he practiced corporate, federal tax, securities
and intellectual property law for 31 years. Since 2002, Goodrich
has served on several corporate boards and worked as a business
consultant, rancher and investor. From 2004 to 2009, he also served
as the chief executive officer of MaxSP Corporation, an information
technology services company. He currently serves on the board of
directors of the Fogarty Institute for Innovation and is active as
a private investor. He owns and operates the Tonini Farm and Cattle
Company in San Luis Obispo, has
operated the Checkerboard Cattle Company in Montana and has advised beef marketing
companies in the Northwest. He received a B.A. degree from
Stanford University in 1963, a J.D.
from the University of Southern
California in 1966, and an L.L.M. in Taxation from
New York University in 1970.
"We are pleased that Borje and Ken have agreed to stand for
election to Trimble's Board of Directors," said Steven W. Berglund, president and CEO of
Trimble. "They bring significant incremental competency to the
Board with diverse experiences in technology, international
markets, and a wide range of industries. Their anticipated
contributions will provide the foundation for the next stage of
growth. At the same time we will miss the contribution of
John Goodrich as he retires from the
Board after 33 years. He has been a source of continuity and
contributions during the evolution of Trimble from a start-up to a
multi-billion dollar company. We are grateful for his many
contributions."
About Trimble
Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in
businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions
are focused on applications requiring position or
location—including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and
asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to
utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics,
Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the
needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver
the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the
field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is
headquartered in Sunnyvale,
Calif.
For more information, visit: www.trimble.com.
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