Board of Directors
Mr. Ekholm has been president and chief executive officer of Ericsson, a multinational networking and telecommunications company, since January 2017. From 1992 to January 2017, he held various positions with Investor AB, an investment firm and holding company with controlling stakes in several large Swedish companies and smaller positions in a number of other firms.
Mr. Ekholm's positions with Investor AB included: from May 2015 to January 2017, he was chief executive officer of Patricia Industries, a unit of Investor AB that includes its wholly-owned and partner-owned companies, as well as financial investments; from September 2005 to May 2015, he was president and chief executive officer of Investor AB; from 1997 to 2005, he was responsible for all private equity investment activities within Investor AB and was also head of Investor Growth Capital, Investor AB’s wholly owned venture capital arm; from 1995 to 1997, he founded and managed Novare Kapital, an early stage venture capital company owned by Investor AB; and from 1997 to 2015, he was also a member of Investor AB’s Management Group. Mr. Ekholm is also a director of Alibaba Group and Ericsson, and within the past five years was a director of Nasdaq. He also currently serves on the board of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce New York.
Mr. Ekholm has a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD, France and holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Mr. Painter became Trimble’s president and chief executive officer in January 2020, having first joined the Company in 2006. From 2016 through 2019, he served as the Company's chief financial officer, responsible for Trimble’s worldwide finance operations.
In 2015, Mr. Painter was appointed vice president of Trimble Buildings, a Trimble group focused on “building information modeling” (BIM)-centric businesses that span the design-build-operate continuum of the building lifecycle. From 2011 to 2014, he served as general manager of the Company’s joint venture with Hilti, which was created to foster collaborative development of product innovations for the building construction industry. From 2009 to 2010, he served as general manager of the Company’s Construction Services Division.
Mr. Painter joined Trimble in 2006 and assumed leadership of Trimble’s business development function, leading acquisition and corporate strategy activities. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Painter served in a variety of management and finance positions at Cenveo, Rapt Inc., Bain & Company, Whole Foods Market, and Kraft Foods. Mr. Painter holds a bachelor's degree in finance from West Virginia University and an MBA from Harvard University.
Mr. Dalton served as the Director of Civil Works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) from August 2016 until January 2020. In this position, he led, managed and directed the policy development, programming, planning, design, construction, contingency operations and emergency response, operation, and maintenance activities of the Army Civil Works Program, a $6 billion annual program of water and related land resources of the United States, and oversaw the work of over 25,000 civilian employees. He also represented the USACE in the United Nations’ Advisory Board High-Level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters, and served on several national and international water resources Committees. From May 2007 until August 2016 he was Chief of USACE’s Engineering and Construction (E&C) Division, responsible for policy, program, and technical expertise in the design and construction programs for the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, other Federal agencies, and over 60 foreign nations. He served as the Corps' South Atlantic Division and South Pacific Division Regional Integration Team (RIT) team leader, USACE Climate Change Adaptation Committee Chair, and lead for USACE on Resilience.
Mr. Dalton was selected to the Senior Executive Service (SES) of the US Office of Personnel Management in January 2005. Mr. Dalton has held numerous other roles during his career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which he joined in 1978, including Regional Business Director for USACE’s South Atlantic Division in Atlanta, Georgia, Director of Business Management for the Gulf Region Division in Baghdad, Iraq, project manager for the Bosnia project to support Operation Joint Guard, and various engineer roles in Saudi Arabia as part of the Saudi Arabia construction program. Mr. Dalton received his B.S. in Architectural Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and holds an M.S. in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University.
Dr. Gabriel is CEO of Rezanent, LLC, a technology and business consulting services provider. From 2020 to July 2023 he was the Chief Operating Officer of Wellcome Leap, an independent innovation organization funded by the Wellcome Trust, the world's fifth largest research trust. Wellcome Leap works at the intersection of engineering and life-sciences to deliver critical medical and healthcare capabilities at accelerated timescales. From 2014 to May of 2020, Ken was 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. 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.
Ms. Lloyd is the chief of staff and a partner at Gehry Partners, LLP, a full service architectural firm with extensive international experience in the design and construction of academic, museum, theater, performance, and commercial projects. Founded in 1962 in Los Angeles, California, Gehry Partners’ mission is to raise architecture to the level of art, while creating buildings that meet the project’s functional and budgetary needs. She has held this position since 2009. Prior to this, she was a designer working with Frank Gehry in the firm. In addition to her duties at Gehry Partners, she served as chief executive officer of Gehry Technologies, Inc., a cloud-based software and service company for the architectural, engineering and construction sectors, from 2013 to 2014.
Ms. Lloyd received her Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and her Master of Architecture from Yale University. She is a board member of Turnaround Arts California.
Ron Nersesian is currently Chairman of Keysight Technologies, a spin-off from Agilent Technologies. Ron served as President and CEO from its formation in 2014 through 2022. Prior to Keysight, Ron provided 10 years of leadership at Agilent, including roles as President and COO. Earlier in his career, Ron put his managerial skills to work at innovative companies including Hewlett-Packard and LeCroy, now a part of Teledyne.
Mr. Peek is executive vice president, managing director and co-head of Workday Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Workday, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. He has held this position since February 2018. From June 2015 to February 2018, Mr. Peek was co-president of Workday. He joined Workday in June 2012 as chief financial officer and served in that capacity until April 2016. From December 2011 to June 2012, Mr. Peek also served on the board of directors of Workday. Prior to joining Workday, Mr. Peek was president, business operations and chief financial officer of VMware, Inc., a provider of business infrastructure virtualization solutions. From April 2007 to January 2011, Mr. Peek served as chief financial officer of VMware, Inc. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Peek was senior vice president and chief accounting officer at Amazon.com. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Mr. Peek spent 19 years at Deloitte, the last ten years as a partner.
Mr. Peek serves on the Advisory Board of the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. Mr. Peek received a B.S. in accounting and international finance from Minnesota State University.
Kara Sprague is Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer at FS. She oversees FS's entire portfolio of multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions.
Sprague joined FS in 2017 to lead the Application Delivery Controller business. In her most recent role, she served as EVP, Application Delivery and Enterprise Product Ops, where she was responsible for the BIG-IP and NGINX product families, along with enterprise-wide product operations. Prior to FS, Sprague spent 13 years with McKinsey & Company, where she held various leadership positions across their technology practice, including the Technology, Media, and Telecom Practice for the Western Region. Earlier in her career, Sprague was on the engineering staff of Oracle, Agilent Technologies, and Hewlett-Packard.
A trained computer scientist and electrical engineer, she holds a bachelor's and two master's degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has a passion for advancing diversity and inclusion in technology roles and served on the board of Girls Who Code from 2016 to 2022.
Mr. Sweet joined the Trimble Board of Directors in January 2022. He recently retired as Chief Financial Officer of Dell Technologies, culminating a 26-year career at one of the world’s leading technology companies. As CFO, Mr. Sweet oversaw all aspects of Dell's finance function, including accounting, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury and investor relations, as well as global business operations, corporate strategy, Dell Financial Services and Dell Technologies Capital. He joined Dell in 1997 and held leadership positions in finance, sales and in various corporate business units before being named CFO in 2014. Prior to Dell, Mr. Sweet was vice president of Accounting and Finance for Telos Corporation, a cyber, cloud and enterprise security company. He spent 13 years with Price Waterhouse providing audit and accounting services to the technology industry.
Mr. Sweet received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Western Michigan University and is a CPA. He currently serves on the Salvation Army Central Texas Advisory Board.
Johan Wibergh is the former Chief Technology and Information Officer of Vodafone, a global telecommunications provider. He is a seasoned technology executive with over 35 years of experience in managing large-scale operations across the globe, having served in various C-suite positions with leading global companies for more than 15 years. He brings with him a wealth of experience in technology innovation and leadership in networking and telecommunications.
Mr. Wibergh's career includes nearly 8 years as the Group Chief Technology Officer of Vodafone and 6.5 years as EVP & Head of Business Unit Networks for Ericsson. His leadership experience spans various areas such as telecoms networks, enterprise networks, digital and IT systems, cyber security, R&D, product management, operational excellence, and large-scale 24/7 operations. Mr. Wibergh is a member of two other US company boards, Inception Holding with the companies Marconi and Avanci, and Cohere Technologies.