Board of Directors

Peter Gotcher has been a member of the Dolby Board of Directors since 2003 and accepted the role of Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors effective March 1, 2009. In addition to providing leadership for the board, Peter brings extensive experience in Dolby's traditional markets and emerging media, providing valuable perspective for the board and the Chief Executive Officer.

Peter is an independent investor focusing on investments in digital media technology companies. From 1999 through 2003 he was a Venture Partner with Redpoint Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital partnership. From 1997 to 1999 he held the same position with Institutional Venture Partners. He has served on the board of directors of 14 public and private companies, and in addition to his position at Dolby, Peter currently serves as a director of Pandora, Line6, Dash Navigation, and Topspin Media (where he is Chairman and cofounder). He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Berklee College of Music.

Peter founded Digidesign, Inc., in 1984 and served as its President, CEO, and Chairman through the company's initial public offering in December 1993, and subsequent merger with Avid Technology in January 1995. Peter served as the General Manager of Digidesign and Executive Vice President of Avid until May 1996. Previously, he worked for Dolby Laboratories and holds a BA degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Kevin Yeaman joined Dolby Laboratories as Chief Financial Officer in 2005 and became its President and CEO in 2009. Kevin brings strong leadership, experience in rapidly changing technology industries and an ability to thrive in dynamic environments to this role.

As Dolby's CFO, Kevin completed the company's transition from a private to a public company and helped close and integrate key acquisitions that were instrumental in expanding Dolby's portfolio of technologies into broader audio applications and new video opportunities. Kevin also built Dolby's financial infrastructure to pave the way for future growth across the company and its subsidiaries. Throughout his tenure at Dolby, Kevin has been an important leader in virtually every aspect of the business including setting the company's strategic direction, expanding into new digital entertainment markets and improving operations.

Prior to coming to Dolby, Kevin spent eight years at E.piphany, an enterprise software company. He took that company through its early stages as a technology start-up as its Chief Financial Officer. Before E.piphany, Kevin was with Informix Software, Inc. (now part of IBM) as Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations supporting the company's sales organization. Before Informix, he managed audit services, mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings for both high technology start-up companies as well as multi-billion dollar corporations in Silicon Valley and London while at KPMG LLP. Kevin holds a BS degree in commerce from Santa Clara University.

Ray Dolby, founder of Dolby Laboratories, Inc., was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1933. From 1949 to 1952 he worked on various audio and instrumentation projects at Ampex Corporation, where from 1952–57 he was mainly responsible for the development of the electronic aspects of the Ampex videotape recording system. In 1957 he received a BS degree from Stanford University, and, upon being awarded a Marshall Scholarship and a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, left Ampex for further study at Cambridge University in England. He received a PhD degree in physics from Cambridge in 1961, and was elected a Fellow of Pembroke College (Honorary Fellow, 1983). During his last year at Cambridge, he was also a consultant to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

In 1963, Ray took up a two-year appointment as a United Nations advisor in India, then returned to England in 1965 to establish Dolby Laboratories in London. In 1976 he moved to San Francisco, where his company established further offices, laboratories, and manufacturing facilities. He holds more than 50 US patents, and has written papers on videotape recording, long wavelength X-ray analysis, and noise reduction.

Ray is a Fellow and past President of the Audio Engineering Society, and a recipient of its Silver and Gold Medal Awards. He is also a Fellow of the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society and an Honorary Member of The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, which in the past has also awarded him its Samuel L. Warner Memorial Award, Alexander M. Poniatoff Gold Medal, and Progress Medal. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted him a Scientific and Engineering Award in 1979 and an Oscar in 1989, when he was also presented an Emmy by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In 1986, Ray was made an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE).

In 1997, Ray received the US National Medal of Technology, the IEEE's Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, and the American Electronic Association's Medal of Achievement. That year he also received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Cambridge University, and in 1999 was awarded an honorary Doctor of the University degree by the University of York.

Ray makes his home in San Francisco with his wife, Dagmar Dolby, and enjoys skiing, sailing, and flying airplanes and helicopters. Ray and Dagmar have two sons, Tom and David.

Nicholas Donatiello has been the President and CEO of Odyssey Ventures, Inc. since September 1993. Prior to founding Odyssey, he was Press Secretary and Campaign Manager for US Senator Bill Bradley and a consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Nick is a director of three of the American Funds managed by Capital Research and Management. He is also a director of Classmates Media Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Online, as well as a number of other private companies. In addition, Nick served as chairman of the board of Northern California Public Broadcasting, Inc. from 2006 through 2008.

Nick holds a BSE degree in systems engineering from Princeton University and an MBA degree from Stanford University.

Ted W. Hall is an entrepreneur and business leader with extensive operating and consulting experience in technology-related businesses, professional services, financial services, and natural resources.

Ted served for more than 27 years as a leader and operating manager of McKinsey & Company, a leading global consulting firm. He served as an elected member of the McKinsey shareholder committee, which is McKinsey's board of directors, for 12 years.

The General Partner of Long Meadow Ranch and President of the associated Long Meadow Ranch Winery in Napa Valley, Ted also serves as Chairman of Tambourine, Inc., a specialty music production and distribution company. He is Managing Director of Mayacamas Associates, his own consulting firm. He is also a former Chairman of the Board of the Robert Mondavi Corporation, a global producer of fine wines. He has served on the boards of directors of a wide variety of educational and civic organizations, including the Stanford Business School's Advisory Council and the San Francisco Symphony. A former professional trombonist and record producer, Ted is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. He holds a BSE degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University and an MBA degree from Stanford University.

Bill Jasper was the CEO and president of Dolby Laboratories until his retirement in March 2009. He joined Dolby in 1979 as Vice President, Finance and Administration and was named company President in 1983. He led the company through its evolution from a small technology innovator to an international entertainment technology leader. Over the years, he led the company through many of its technology transformations, including analog to digital, music to film, cassettes to DVDs, and audio-only to audio and video.

Bill is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), and is an at-large member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

Bill received a BS in industrial engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sanford R. Robertson is a principal of Francisco Partners, the world's largest technology buyout fund. With a focus on structured investments in technology and technology-related businesses, Francisco Partners is a pioneer in the private equity category of Technology Buyouts.

Prior to founding Francisco Partners, Sanford was the founder and Chairman of Robertson, Stephens & Co., a leading technology investment bank formed in 1978, and sold to BankBoston in 1998. Since the sale, Sanford has been an active technology investor and advisor to several technology companies. Sanford was also the founder of Robertson, Colman, Siebel & Weisel, later renamed Montgomery Securities, another prominent technology investment bank. Sanford was one of the pioneers in the creation of West Coast technology banking as an industry in the late 1960s, and has remained one of the industry's most renowned participants to this date. He has had significant financing involvement in over 500 growth technology companies throughout his career, including 3Com Corporation; America Online, Inc.; Applied Materials, Inc.; Ascend Communications Inc.; Dell Computer Corporation; E*Trade Securities, Inc.; Siebel Systems, Inc.; and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sanford currently serves on the boards of directors of Pain Therapeutics and salesforce.com.

Sanford received both a BA degree and an MBA degree with distinction from the University of Michigan.

Roger S. Siboni is Chairman and former CEO of Epiphany, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent customer interaction software.

Before joining Epiphany, Roger was Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of KPMG Peat Marwick—a $9 billion, 85,000 person worldwide accounting and consulting organization. As COO, Roger led the firm to consecutive years of record revenue and profitability. Prior to becoming Deputy Chairman, as head of KPMG's Technology Practice, he grew that business by over 250 percent in his four years of leadership.

Roger currently serves on the boards of Cadence Design Systems and FileNet Corporation. He previously served on the boards of Macromedia, Active Software, Pivotal Software, and Corio Systems. He has also served on the boards of the Central Park Conservancy, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, and the San Francisco Exploratorium. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Roger is past Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Walter A. Hass School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

Avadis Tevanian is the former Software Chief Technology Officer of Apple Computer. As Software CTO, Avie focused on setting company-wide software technology direction for Apple. Prior to his tenure as Software CTO, Avie was Senior Vice President of Software at Apple, a role he took on when Apple acquired NeXT in 1997.

As SVP of Software, Avie led the software engineering team responsible for the creation of Mac OS X and worked as part of Apple's executive team that engineered the turnaround and current success of Apple. Before joining Apple, he was Vice President of Engineering at NeXT and was responsible for managing NeXT's industry renowned engineering department. Avie started his professional career at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a principal designer and engineer of the Mach operating system upon which Nextstep, and now OS X, is based.

He holds a BA degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester and MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.