| Jim Barksdale  AKA James Love Barksdale
Born: 24-Jan-1943
Birthplace: Jackson, MS
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Business Nationality: United States
Executive summary: CEO of Netscape, 1995-99 Wife: Sally Baksdale (d. 2003 cancer, two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Susan
Daughter: Betsy
Son: David
Netscape President and CEO (1995-99)
AT&T Wireless CEO (1993-94)
FedEx EVP and COO (1983-92)
FedEx CIO (1979-83)
Cook Industries Various positions, to CIO (1972-79)
Member of the Board of In-Q-Tel Board of Trustees
Member of the Board of Time Warner (2001-)
Member of the Board of AOL (1999-2001)
Member of the Board of 3Com (1987-?)
Member of the Board of Bridge Communications (-1987)
Member of the Board of AT&T Wireless
Member of the Board of FedEx
Member of the Board of Sun Microsystems (1999-)
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers Special Adviser
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2001-03)
Brownback for President
Dreier for Congress Committee
Friends of George Allen
Markle Foundation Co-Chair, National Security in the Information Age
National Digital Strategy Advisory Board
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Obama for America
Rely on Your Beliefs Fund
Sigma Chi Fraternity
Appears on the cover of:
Newsweek, 10-Feb-1997, DETAILS: Netscape -- How it plans to outrun Microsoft -- CEO Jim Barksdale (photo by William Mercer McLeod, of Barksdale sitting cross legged on a tile floor)
Red Herring, June 1998 #55, DETAILS: Netscape exits, BYLINE: Bart Nagle
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