Strategic Advisory Board

Crossroads’ Strategic Advisory Board is comprised of premier business and technology leaders who bring in-depth industry expertise and knowledge to the company. The group was created and announced in February 2006 as an invaluable resource to provide Crossroads with critical insight, which will help shape business and product developments. Crossroads Strategic Advisory Board will help the company meet emerging customer requirements across all of its products.

Members of Crossroads Strategic Advisory Board include:

Ann Cohen

Ann is an executive business consultant with more than 30 years of experience. During her tenure at EDS, she served as the Vice President of several business units, generating in excess of $4B. Ann was named to the "Federal 100,” which honors the top information technology executives from government and industry. She was on the board of and the acting Executive Director of United States-Israel Science and Technology Commission. She is now the CEO of Ann Cohen & Associates.

Andrew Heller

Andrew brings more than 35 years of leadership to the Strategic Advisory Board. He was an IBM Fellow and an IBM division President. He served as a member of the IBM Executive Committee on Technology and the Executive Technical Review Board. He was a consulting partner for renowned venture capital firm, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers where he helped start and nurture several well known companies including Rambus and S3. Andrew was also Chairman and CEO of HAL Computer Systems, Chairman of Smart Technologies and Chairman and CEO of Clearcube among many others. He currently runs the consulting firm of Heller Associates and has added an active recording and singing career to his activities.

Don Pearce

Don provides a wealth of knowledge and experience from a career focused on Sales and Sales Management beginning at IBM, continuing with over twenty years at Amdahl Corp. and most recently as Regional Vice President for Tarantella, Inc. and Regional Sales Manager for the Central US Storage Sales Team of Sun Microsystems. He has received numerous accolades for business excellence and led his Amdahl sales team to number one in US revenue for 15 consecutive years. In addition to his very active business career, Don has been involved with a wide variety of civic activities. Don graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.S. in Mathematics and received a M.S. in Mathematics from LSU.

Carolyn Purcell

Purcell is an executive consultant with the Internet Business solutions Group, Public Sector at Cisco. In 2000, Purcell was named among "The Most Powerful Texans in High Tech" by Texas Monthly biz and served nine years as the CIO for the state of Texas where she was responsible for information security across the enterprise. Carolyn Purcell is now the Founder and CEO of Purcell Ventures.

John Stenbit

John is an information assurance executive and veteran. During his career, he was as the Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3I, Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence) and as the Chief Information Officer at the US Department of Defense, Pentagon. Additionally, John represented the United States at NATO on issues relating to communications and Information Assurance.