Summer 2010
POST Welcomes Diane B. Greene to the Board
Diane B. Greene
- Ask Diane Greene how she came
to know POST-protected
land and you might get an
unexpected answer: from the water.
A competitive sailor and windsurfer,
Diane was one of the first people
ever to windsurf the San Mateo
Coastline in the late 1970s. “People
thought we were crazy, but we
loved it,” Diane says.
- Decades later, and with several
successful start-ups behind her,
Diane Greene is ready to give back
to the beautiful lands and coastline
she loves by becoming a member of
POST’s Board of Directors. Diane
was drawn to POST, she says, by its
“nimble, creative and open-minded
approach to preserving open space
and the plants and animals that
depend on it.”
- A co-founder, president and
chief executive officer of VMware
Inc. for the company’s first 11 years,
she took it to $1.9 billion in annual
revenues. VMware created the market
for desktop and server virtualization. Before co-founding VMware in 1998,
Diane held engineering and leadership
positions at Silicon Graphics
Inc., Tandem Computers Inc. and
Sybase Inc. She also co-founded
VXtreme, a streaming media company
purchased by Microsoft in 1997, and
served as its chief executive officer.
- Diane serves on the board of
Intuit Inc., Unity3d and the advisory
board of the Stanford School of
Engineering. A graduate of MIT, she
is a member of The MIT Corporation.
Former board positions include
VMware Inc. and West Marine Inc.
- Raised in Annapolis, Md.,
Diane grew up sailing. She was the
women’s national double-handed
dinghy champion in 1976 and
has won numerous windsurfing
competitions. She also enjoys
hiking and biking on the Peninsula’s
open spaces.
- Says Diane, “It will be a privilege
to support POST, which is so effective
and does work with long-term
benefits for everyone.”
POST Buys Land Near Sierra Azul . . .
