Sue James

James, who was also appointed the head of the board's audit committee, worked at Ernst & Young for 31 years. She was a partner there from 1987 until retiring in 2006, and worked as the lead partner or partner-in-charge on audit work for tech companies like Intel Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. She is on the boards of Applied Materials Inc., Coherent Inc. and nonprofit Tri-Valley Animal Rescue. Ms. James holds B.S. degrees from Hunter College and San Jose State University.