Jim Schraith has spent roughly three decades in operating leadership in high technology, including senior roles at AST Research, Compaq and Quantum. He is Co-founder and COO of Morphics.
Operating leadership
Jim began his career at Schlumberger, where he was director of worldwide marketing. He then spent nine years at AST Research, rising to President and Chief Operating Officer, and was part of the team that took the company onto the Fortune 500 in 1992. He went on to serve as President and CEO of the Cerplex Group.
At Compaq Computer Corporation, Jim was Senior Vice President and General Manager of North American Operations, leading an organization of more than 6,000 people with over $10 billion in annual revenue. In 1998 he became President and CEO of ShareWave, a venture-backed company building wireless home networking for PCs and consumer electronics. He later served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Quantum Corporation and as President and CEO of Snap Appliances.
Investor and adviser
In 2000 Jim co-founded QTV Capital, one of the early corporate venture capital funds. He is an angel investor and a Venture Partner at Frontier Venture Capital, and has worked with companies including Clear Access (acquired by Cisco), SynapSense (acquired by Panduit) and Predixion Software (acquired by Greenwave Systems).
Corporate governance
Jim has served on more than 30 public, private and nonprofit boards of directors over more than two decades. Drawing on that experience, he founded BoardEvals in 2008. Based in Irvine, BoardEvals is a governance consulting firm that uses web-based tools to standardize and automate board evaluations and risk assessments for for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and it has processed thousands of governance evaluations.
Blood services
After his technology career, Jim joined the board of BloodSource, his local blood bank. When BloodSource merged with Vitalant, he joined Vitalant's board of trustees, and he remains a trustee of Vitalant, the nation's largest independent blood services provider. He is Vice Chair of the Vitalant Foundation and Chair of the board of the San Diego Blood Bank.
At Morphics
Jim brings the operating discipline of someone who has run sales, marketing and operations at scale in the computer hardware industry. As Co-founder and COO, he leads the company's operations as it brings the Morphics memory management plane to market.