Biography

Ms. Nelson currently serves as a board member, Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee and member of the Audit Committee of Backblaze, Inc., a publicly traded cloud data management, storage and backup SaaS company. Ms. Nelson also serves on the board of directors of OneView Healthcare, a healthcare technology company traded on the Australian Securities Exchange, that provides digital tools for patients, families, and caregivers allowing hospitals to operate with significantly better efficiency and care. Additionally, Ms. Nelson also serves on the board of o8t, a private company pioneering AI applied to brain connectivity, for neurosurgery and mental health. From May 2017 to April 2020, she served as Vice President, and from November 2016 to May 2017 she served as senior consultant to the President and Chief Operating Officer, at Western Digital Corporation, (Nasdaq: WDC) a data technology products, systems and cloud storage services company. From May 2013 to March 2016, she served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the IronKey, the mobile security and SaaS division of Imation Corp (NYSE: IMN) a data storage and information security products and solutions company. From July 2008 to March 2010, Ms. Nelson served as Chief Executive Officer of Element Labs Inc., a video and LED-lightning company and from October 2003 to December 2007, Ms. Nelson served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of NeoScale Systems Inc., an enterprise storage security and key management company. Ms. Nelson holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Ms. Nelson’s extensive experience in the semiconductor and storage industries, with over fifteen years of P&L leadership, in matters of go-to-market, product development and finance, and her expertise in cloud services and SaaS businesses makes her highly qualified to serve as a director and provide input and guidance to the GSI Technology Board and management team.