Alan Noble: Technology Advisory Board

Alan Noble joined Foursticks in June 2002 as Chief Technology Officer, overseeing the technology strategy, research programs, technology acquisition and partnerships, and technology licensing. Alan is passionate about creating world-class technologies and brings 20 years of software technology and engineering management experience to Foursticks. He has an enviable track record and international reputation for technology excellence.

He holds an Honors degree of Bachelor of Engineering from Adelaide University, South Australia and a Masters degree in Computing Science from Stanford University, California. Alan has been granted seven U.S. patents and has two more pending.

Prior to joining Foursticks, Alan was VP of Engineering at Pumatech in California, heading a 170 person engineering organization. In this role Alan was responsible for merging three acquired engineering organizations spanning 5 facilities into the Pumatech engineering group. Alan also was responsible for evangelizing Pumatech products and technologies at international conferences.

Alan came to Pumatech after his company, NetMind, was acquired in February 2000. He co-founded NetMind Technologies in 1996 and as VP of Engineering was responsible for all product development and technology strategy. He co-authored the business plan, secured the seed funding and two rounds of venture capital funding (Tech Farm, Soft Bank, Draper Fisher Jurvetson). He was responsible for the technology roadmap, including the CTO role. NetMind was acquired by Pumatech for 5 million shares (approx. US$400 million evaluation).

Prior to NetMind, Alan spent eight years working for Schlumberger in various software development and management positions. Alan has also consulted for several Silicon Valley companies, including Tibco, Ericsson and Pure Software. With Pure software Alan secured seed funding and assisted in the early development of the startup. Pure Software merged with Atria Software and listed on the NASDAQ in 1996 and was acquired by Rational Software in 1997, now a division of IBM.

Prior to moving to the US in 1986, Alan lived and worked in Japan for 3 years, where he held positions with NEC Switching Systems, and two startup companies. Prior to Japan he lived briefly in The Netherlands, where he worked for Phillips in Eindhoven. Alan speaks fluent Japanese.