Joseph Ferguson joined board of directors in June 2016. Mr. Ferguson is a co-founder and managing partner at Vicente Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based investment firm providing capital to privately held growth companies across North America. Prior to co-founding Vicente in 2009, Mr. Ferguson was a partner at Kline Hawkes & Company, which he joined at the firm’s inception in 1995. Mr. Ferguson began his career as an investment banker for Merrill Lynch & Co where he was a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Group and the General Corporate Finance Group. From 1989 to 1994, he worked on more than 30 public and private transactions for numerous emerging growth and middle market companies. He currently serves on the board of directors of SMT and Intellectual Technology, Inc., both privately held companies. Mr. Ferguson received a Bachelor of Business Administration. degree in Finance from Southern Methodist University and Master of Business Administration degree from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.