COMPANY

Dipped into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2006. Entered bankruptcy again in 2009; SGI was liquidated and sold off to Rackable Systems, which assumed its identity.

Official Website:
http://www.sgi.com/

Industry:
Computer

Ticker:
NASDAQ:SGI

Corporate headquarters:
Mountain View, CA

Sales:
$354M (2008)

Employees:
1600

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David J. Barram	Government	c. 1943		GSA Administrator, 1996-2001
Richard E. Belluzzo	Business	c. 1954		CEO of Quantum
Robert K. Burgess	Business	c. 1957		CEO of Macromedia, 1996-2005
Jim Clark	Business	1944		Co-Founder of SGI and Netscape
Robert H. Ewald	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Silicon Graphics
Edward R. McCracken	Business	c. 1944		CEO of Silicon Graphics, 1984-98
Willy C. Shih	Business	c. 1951		VP at Kodak, 1997-2005

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Eugene I. Davis	Business	c. 1953		Pirinate Consulting Group
Robert H. Ewald	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Silicon Graphics
Anthony Grillo	Business	12-Jul-1955		American Securities Advisors
Joanne O. Isham	Government	27-Oct-1955		Career CIA, now at HPTi
Kevin D. Katari	Business	c. 1969		Watershed Asset Management
James A. McDivitt	Astronaut	10-Jun-1929		Commander, Gemini 4 and Apollo 9
Chun Won Yi	Business	c. 1977		Quadrangle Group

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jim Clark	Business	1944		Co-Founder of SGI and Netscape
Edward R. McCracken	Business	c. 1944		CEO of Silicon Graphics, 1984-98
Robert B. Shapiro	Business	4-Aug-1938		CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000
Robert Wall	Business	c. 1946		Co-Founder of MIPS

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Brendan Eich	Computer Programmer	1961		Invented JavaScript for Netscape
Dan Farmer	Computer Programmer	5-Apr-1962		Cowrote SATAN security auditing tool
John Giannandrea	Computer Programmer	?		Chief Technology Officer at Tellme
Diane Greene	Business	c. 1954		Co-Founder, CEO of VMware, 1998-2008
Shantanu Narayen	Business	c. 1963		CEO of Adobe
Tom Paquin	Computer Programmer	?		Netscape Fellow

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