Ray Noorda Fact Sheet

Born: June 19, 1924, in Ogden, Utah

Died: October 9, 2006, in Orem, Utah

Education: Ogden High School, Ogden, Utah, Weber State College in Ogden, Utah. Graduated University of Utah, 1949, BS, cum laude, in Electrical Engineering

Business Career:

-- General Electric – 1949-1960, electrical engineer, regional manager, marketing
-- Turn-around CEO for Boschert, a power-supply manufacturer in Fremont, California, Systems Industries, Milpitas, California, and General Automation, Anaheim, California
-- Novell, Inc. – 1983-1995, President, Chairman, CEO
-- The Canopy Group – 1995-Present, Founder.  The Canopy Group is an early-stage venture capital firm that has invested in over 100 companies.

Innovations
-- Known as The Father of Network Computing
-- Developed the modern software “channel,” a tiered distribution strategy, where manufacture and resellers thrive together in providing products and services to end users.
-- Pioneered “coopetition,” where competing companies agree on standards and make products that operate compatibly on a computer network.

Philanthropy—Extensive philanthropic giving, including LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, and a variety of organizations supporting activities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Family – Wife, Tye, four children and thirteen grandchildren