Lionel M. (Lon) Allan
Background:
Lionel M. (Lon) Allan, board observer, has served as an independent director and corporate governance and legal advisor since 1992, following a 20-plus year career as a corporate and securities lawyer in Silicon Valley.
Lon has been an outside director on the boards of a number of companies, including: NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (chair, governance committee); Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. (chair, governance committee; chair, compensation committee); Galvantech, Inc.; Global Motorsport Group, Inc. (vice chair of the board; chair, audit committee); Accom, Inc. (chair, audit committee); Louth Automation, Inc. and Groth Vineyards and Winery. He has also been active on the boards of various professional, philanthropic and civic organizations, including the Northern California chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (chair of the board); The Harker School (chair of the board); KTEH Public Television Channel 54 (chair of the board); Villa Montalvo (president of the board); the Silicon Valley Chapter of the AeA, formerly the American Electronics Association (legal consultant to the executive committee); the American Bar Association (chair, small business committee); and the Board of Visitors at Stanford Law School.
In addition to board service, Lon has been a lecturer on corporate governance issues at the Haas Business School at U.C. Berkeley; the National Association of Corporate Directors; IRRC; the VC Task Force; and Stanford Directors' College. He has also presented lectures on corporate and securities issues at the American Bar Association and the State Bar of California, and has had articles published by Prentice-Hall Corporation Service, the California Continuing Education of the Bar and Mathew Bender and Co.
Lon Allan received his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1968 and his A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1965. In 1969-70, he was law clerk to Chief Judge Robert Peckham of the United States District Court in San Francisco.
