Peter Gotcher
Peter Gotcher is the Chair of the board of directors and has been a member of the board since 2003. In addition to providing leadership for the board, Peter brings extensive experience in Dolby's traditional markets and emerging media, providing valuable perspective for the board and the Chief Executive Officer.
Peter is an independent investor focusing on investments in digital media technology companies. From 1999 through 2003, he was a Venture Partner with Redpoint Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital partnership. From 1997 to 1999, he held the same position with Institutional Venture Partners. He has served on the board of directors of several public and private companies. In addition to his position at Dolby, Peter currently serves as a director of GoPro. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Berklee College of Music.
Peter founded Digidesign, Inc., in 1984 and served as its President, CEO, and Chair through the company's initial public offering in December 1993, and subsequent merger with Avid Technology in January 1995. Peter served as the General Manager of Digidesign and Executive Vice President of Avid until May 1996. Previously, he worked for Dolby Laboratories and holds a BA degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Micheline Chau
Micheline Chau joined the Dolby board of directors in 2013. Formerly the President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer of Lucasfilm Ltd., she brings significant experience in the entertainment industry to Dolby.
Micheline currently sits on the boards of directors of several private and nonprofit entities, including the California HealthCare Foundation, where she serves as Vice Chairman. She was a member of the board of directors of Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open-source software solutions, from November 2008 to August 2012, and also served as a member of Red Hat's Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees.
Micheline holds an undergraduate degree in English and Asian studies from Wellesley College and an MBA degree from Stanford University.
David Dolby
David Dolby has been a member of the Dolby board of directors since 2011. Prior to joining the board, David served as Manager, Strategic Partnerships, at Dolby. In this role, David was responsible for managing Dolby strategic partnerships and technology standards for internet media encoding, delivery, and playback. He also represented Dolby in technical and business working groups at a variety of international standards groups, including Universal Serial Bus, Digital Living Network Alliance, Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, and Blu-ray Disc Association.
David's experience includes roles at Kaleidescape, Inc., a company focused on high-performance music and movie server systems, and NetVMG, which developed route control software (and was acquired by Internap, a provider of IT infrastructure services). At Perseus Group (now GCA Savvian), David was an investment banking analyst focused on technology. He also worked for engineering firms Bechtel and Poe & Associates. David has undertaken his own ventures as well, including owning and operating a private aircraft-leasing business, and currently holds investments in several private companies.
David received a BSE degree in civil engineering from Duke University and an MBA degree from Stanford University.
N.W. (Bill) Jasper Jr.
Bill Jasper has been a member of the Dolby board of directors since 2003. Bill was the CEO and President of Dolby Laboratories until his retirement in March 2009. He joined Dolby in 1979 as Vice President, Finance and Administration, and was named company President in 1983. He led the company through its evolution from a small technology innovator to an international entertainment technology leader. Over the years, he has led the company through many of its technology transformations, including analog to digital, music to film, cassettes to DVDs, and audio-only to audio and video.
Bill is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), and is an at-large member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
Bill received a BS degree in industrial engineering from Stanford University and an MBA degree in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.
Simon Segars
Simon Segars joined the Dolby board of directors in February 2015. From 1991 until 2022, Simon worked for Arm Ltd (known as Arm Holdings Plc prior to 2017), a global designer of processor, software, and development tools that enable innovation in mobile computing, industrial applications, enterprise networking, and the rapidly expanding Internet of Things, which was publicly held until its acquisition by SoftBank Group Corp. in September 2016. He was a member of the ARM board of directors from 2005 through 2022 and served as ARM's President in 2013 before being promoted to Chief Executive Officer in July 2013. Prior to that, Simon held a number of senior positions at Arm, including Executive Vice President and General Manager, Physical IP Division; Executive Vice President, Engineering; Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales; and Executive Vice President, Business Development.
Simon worked on many of the early ARM® CPU products and led the development of the ARM7™ and ARM9™ Thumb® families. He holds a number of patents in the field of embedded CPU architectures.
Simon received a BEng degree in electronic engineering from the University of Sussex and an MSc degree in computer science from the University of Manchester. In addition to serving on the Dolby board of directors, Simon serves on the boards of Vodafone Group Plc, Edge Impulse, and the UK’s TechWorks. Simon also serves as an advisor to Permira, a private equity firm, and Black Opal Ventures, a venture capital firm.
Roger S. Siboni
Roger S. Siboni has been a member of the Dolby board of directors since 2004. Roger was the Chairman and former CEO of Epiphany, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent customer interaction software.
Before joining Epiphany, Roger was Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of KPMG Peat Marwick — a $9 billion, 85,000-person worldwide accounting and consulting organization. As COO, Roger led the firm to consecutive years of record revenue and profitability. Prior to becoming Deputy Chairman, as head of KPMG's Technology Practice, he grew that business by over 250 percent in his four years of leadership.
Roger currently serves on the boards of Cadence Design Systems, Coupa Software, and a number of private companies. He previously served on the boards of Active Software, ArcSight, Corio Systems, FileNet, infoGROUP, Macromedia, and Pivotal Software. He has also served on the boards of the Central Park Conservancy, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, and the San Francisco Exploratorium. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Roger is past Chairman of the advisory board for the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Anjali Sud
Anjali Sud joined the Dolby board of directors in May 2019. Anjali is the CEO of Tubi, the most watched free ad-supported TV streaming service in the U.S. She previously served as CEO of Vimeo, the global online video platform. During her six-year tenure she took the company public and established Vimeo as the home for video creators and professionals worldwide, building a community of over 300 million users. Prior to Vimeo, Anjali held various positions in e-commerce, finance, and media at Amazon and Time Warner.
Anjali serves on the board of Change.org and is a designated Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, as well as a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. She has been recognized by Fortune’s 40 Under 40, Crain’s 40 Under 40, Wharton’s 40 Under 40, and Adweek's Power List. Anjali grew up in Flint, Michigan, and currently lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.
Anjali holds a BS degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Avadis Tevanian
Avadis Tevanian has been a member of the Dolby board of directors since 2009. Avie is a Managing Director of Elevation Partners, a private equity firm. Previously, he was Software Chief Technology Officer of Apple Computer. As Software CTO, Avie focused on setting company-wide software technology direction for Apple. Prior to his tenure as Software CTO, Avie was Senior Vice President of Software at Apple, a role he took on when Apple acquired NeXT in 1997.
As SVP of Software, Avie led the software engineering team responsible for the creation of Mac OS X and worked as part of the Apple executive team that engineered the turnaround and current success of Apple. Before joining Apple, he was Vice President of Engineering at NeXT and was responsible for managing NeXT's industry-renowned engineering department. Avie started his professional career at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a principal designer and engineer of the Mach operating system, upon which Nextstep, and now OS X, is based.
He holds a BA degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester and MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.