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Bruce W. Armstrong
Board Member
Armstrong was appointed to the Board of Directors in June 2007. In September 2008 he was appointed Chairman of the Board and CEO of Kickfire, headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Kickfire offers a high-performance analytics appliance based on MySQL, featuring the industry's first SQL chip. Armstrong currently serves as a member of the Compensation Committee and Nominating & Governance Committee.
Previous assignments include president and CEO of publicly-held KNOVA Software; president and CEO of Kanisa; partner with Internet Capital Group; president and CEO of CMPnet; executive vice president of sales and marketing at Broadbase Software (now KANA); and vice president and general manager of the Server Products Group at Sybase. Armstrong began his business career at Teradata Corporation, where he eventually was named to lead the business unit after the company was acquired by AT&T/NCR. Currently, in addition to his position as Chairman of the Board of Kickfire, he serves on the boards of privately held Accruent, a leading provider of Real Estate Performance Management (RPM) solutions, as well as The Bay School of San Francisco, an independent, coeducational college preparatory high school located in the Presidio of San Francisco. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
