Biography

Mr. Kurtz is a senior financial and operations executive with over 30 years of experience operating as chief financial officer or chief operating officer at several private and public technology companies. Mr. Kurtz has most recently served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer at Ripcord, Inc., a records management and document intelligence company, from June 2021 to January 2022, and previously served as Chief Commercial & Financial Officer from January 2020 to June 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Kurtz served as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of Bloom Energy Corporation, a manufacturer of on-site power generation platforms, from 2015 to January 2019, and then as a strategic advisor from January 2020 to January 2021. Prior to that, he served as Bloom’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Commercial Officer beginning in 2008. Mr. Kurtz currently sits on the board of directors of Aterian Inc. (formerly Mohawk Group), a Nasdaq listed company where he serves as Chairman of the Board, and as a member of the audit and the compensation committees, and on the board of Ripcord Inc., where he serves on the audit committee. Also, since September 2016 he has served on the board of directors of Verint Systems Inc., a Nasdaq-listed analytics company, and he currently serves as lead independent director since June 2024 and as a member of the audit committee and the nominating and governance committee and since February 2024, he has served on the board of directors and the audit committee of LightForce Orthodontics, Inc. Prior to 2008, Mr. Kurtz held the Chief Financial Officer or other senior finance roles for Novellus Systems (now Lam Research), Engenio Information Technologies, 3PARdata (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Scient Corporation, and AT&T Corporation. Mr. Kurtz previously served as the chairman of the audit committees of Violin Memory, PMC-Sierra (now part of Microsemi Corporation), and Redback Networks (now part of Ericsson).