Primary Job Title Member of the Board of Directors Primary Organization 
Mellanox Technologies
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
Investor Type
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Amal Johnson has served as a member of Mellanox’s Board of Directors since October 2006.
Amal is currently the Executive Chairman of the Board of Author-IT Inc, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) private company that provides a platform for creating, maintaining, and distributing single-sourced technical content.
She also serves on the boards of
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. and CalAmp, and is a venture advisor to Illuminate Ventures, a VC firm. Amal led MarketTools, a privately held SaaS company, as CEO from 2005 to 2008 and thereafter as Chairman until the company was acquired in January 2012.
Prior to joining MarketTools, Amal was a General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, focusing on enterprise software and infrastructure, from 1999 to 2004.
Previously, from 1994 to 1998, Amal held executive management positions with Baan, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company, including President of Baan Supply Chain Solutions, President of Baan Americas, and President of Baan Affiliates.
Prior to that, Amal served as President of ASK Manufacturing Systems, a material requirements planning software company, from 1993 to 1994 and held executive positions at IBM from 1977 to 1993.
Amal holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Montclair State University.
