Primary Job Title Director Primary Organization 
Resilient Network Systems
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Howard A. Bain III is the Director at Resilient Network Systems and Director of Audit Comm. Chair at Learning Tree International. He was a former CFO at Portal Software.
Howard has served on our board of directors since October 2012. Since 2004, Mr. Bain has been an independent consultant in all aspects of corporate finance.
Mr. Bain has served
as Chief Financial Officer at several public companies including: Portal Software, Inc. from 2001 to 2004, Vicinity Corporation in 2000, Informix Corporation from 1999 to 2000, and Symantec Corporation from 1991 to 1999.
Prior to that, he served as a Senior Audit Supervisor at Arthur Andersen LLP, where he was a certified public accountant.
He is also a Governance Fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors. Mr. Bain has served on the board of directors of Nanometrics, Inc. since April 2008, Learning Tree International, Inc. since 2001, as well as Nok Nok Labs, Inc. a private venture capital financed company.
Mr. Bain holds a B.S. in Business Administration from California Polytechnic University.
Mr. Bain’s significant Board, financial and operational expertise, including his experience as Chief Financial Officer at several public companies, as well as his experience in various technology companies in the areas of semiconductor devices and manufacturing equipment, laser-based large screen projection systems, and computer disk drives is directly relevant to Violin’s business and his responsibilities to the Board.
