Marshall C. Turner Joins ResearchChannel Board of Directors

NEW BOARD MEMBER, MARSHALL C. TURNER

A veteran of both venture capital and turnaround CEO roles in technology industries, Marshall Turner is an early-stage technology investor based in San Francisco and a director of several companies.

He recently completed a three-year assignment as chairman and CEO of Toppan Photomasks Inc., Austin, Texas, a $380 million global manufacturer of a key component for the optical lithography processes of semiconductor chip fabrication. He had served on the board of the company since 1996 and also had served as DPI’s acting chairman and CEO for 11 months in 1999 and 2000. As the company completed an extensive multi-year restructuring process, he led negotiations that resulted in the acquisition of DPI by Toppan Printing Company Ltd. in April 2005 at a 50 percent premium. He remained as CEO for a year after the acquisition to help ensure a smooth integration of the two companies’ photomask businesses and remains a member of the advisory board.

Marshall is also a director of the AllianceBernstein mutual and closed end funds, New York, a member of the board of directors or advisers of three privately held technology companies, and a member of the board of directors of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, Nicasio, Calif. In May 2006, he completed four years as chairman and nine years as a member of the board of directors of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. Since 1974, he has served on the boards of 20 software, electronics, biotechnology, telecommunication, computer, consumer product and education companies, four investment companies, and eight nonprofit organizations.

Marshall received a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and a master of science in product design — a joint program of Stanford’s art and engineering departments — in 1965. In 1970, he received a master of business administration with distinction from Harvard Business School.

After consumer product design experience at Mattel and General Motors, Marshall served at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service from 1966 to 1968. At NIH, he co-designed an implantable mechanical heart assist pump and was part of the surgical team that conducted extensive testing of the device, implanted in calves.

Marshall was selected as one of 17 White House Fellows in 1970. He remained in Washington to work as part of a small team starting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as director of a staff reporting to the first administrator and deputy administrator, from 1971 to 1973.