Richard Lowenthal

Mr. Lowenthal is CEO and co-founder of Coulomb Technologies.    He is on the board of the Rotary Club of Cupertino, President of the Cupertino Rotary Housing Corporation, and is Chairman of the Santa Clara Valley YMCA Board of Directors.  

Mr. Lowenthal was:
Mayor of Cupertino from 2001-2002 and 2005-2006
Cupertino City Councilmember from 1999-2007
President of Cupertino Rotary from 2005-2006. 
President of Cupertino Community Services from 2004-2005.
President of the Fremont Union High Schools Foundation from 2004-2005
Chair of the Santa Clara County Library Joint Powers Authority from 2004-2005.
Founder and co-chair of the Cupertino Lunar New Year Unity Parade from 2002-2004.

He was instrumental in the founding of Convergent Technologies, Stardent Computer, Lightera, Pipal Systems, Trackware, Fastchip, Uniwave, Connected Systems, TenSquare, and Procket Networks.

From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Lowenthal was Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's WAN Access Products Division. From 1990 through 1995, Mr. Lowenthal was Vice President of Research and Development for StrataCom, a telecommunications product development and manufacturing company. From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Lowenthal was co-founder and Vice President of Engineering for Stardent Computers, a high performance computer company in Sunnyvale, California. Prior to Stardent, Mr. Lowenthal was Vice President of Engineering for Convergent Technologies of San Jose.

Mr. Lowenthal has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He is 54 years old and lives with his wife Ellen and 2 daughters in Cupertino, California. He is an avid golfer and bicyclist.  He is a member of the Cupertino Rotary, the Cupertino Chamber of Commerce, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.