Michael Lehman

Michael Lehman serves as a Vice Chancellor Finance and Administration at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also an angel investor. He also serves as an Independent Board Member at MapR Technologies. Previously, he served as a Director at Solera Holdings. He has been an independent consultant to various companies since February 2014. He was the interim Chief Financial Officer at Ciber Inc., a global information technology company, from September 2013 until February 2014. He was Chief Financial Officer of Arista Networks, a cloud networking firm, from September 2012 through July 2013, and Chief Financial Officer of Palo Alto Networks, a network security firm, from April 2010 until February 2012. Prior to that, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sun Microsystems, Inc., a provider of computer systems and professional support services, from February 2006 to January 2010, when Sun Microsystems, Inc. was acquired by Oracle Corporation. From July 2000 until his initial retirement in September 2002, he was Executive Vice President of Sun Microsystems, as well as its Chief Financial Officer from February 1994 to July 2002, and held senior executive positions with Sun Microsystems for more than five years before then. Before his career at Sun, Lehman was a Certified Public Accountant with Price Waterhouse, and worked in the Milwaukee and San Francisco offices. Lehman is also a director of MGIC Investment Corp. and also serves as the chairman of its audit committee. Lehman has a B.A. in business administration, with a minor in accounting, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.