George Sollman

Mr. Sollman is Chairman and founder of Arabesque Investments LLC, Atherton, CA. He co-founded @Motion in 1997 to pioneer Internet voice portal servers and served as its CEO and president until it was acquired by OpenWave for about $400M in 2000. Mr. Sollman was the president and CEO of Centigram Communications Corporation, a leading voice messaging company, from 1985 through 1997. The company grew from a privately-held firm with revenues of about $1M to more than $120M as a publicly-held company, with its IPO in 1991. Mr. Sollman served as VP/GM for Sales and Marketing at Shugart Corporation in the period 1976-84. During this time, the company grew from about $6M to $240M, during which it was acquired by Xerox. Mr. Sollman has served on a number of private and public company boards. Currently, he also serves on the Board of Advisors of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University (Chairman from 2001-2004). He was active with the American Electronics Association (AEA), where he served on the National Board of Directors from 1993-1997, during which he was elected National Chairman. In 1994, Mr. Sollman received a Presidential appointment to ARPA's Semiconductor Technology Council. He received his BSEE from Northwestern University and an MSEE from Northeastern University. Mr. Sollman is the inventor on five issued patents.