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Seth Neiman (born June 27, 1954) is an American
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2010 Daytona 24: Grand Am Final Race Results – Porche, Action Express Racing Win!
''PaddockTalk'', January 21, 2010, Retrieved 2010-07-22
computer industry
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businessperson and venture capitalist in California, and a professional racing driver
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He is the team principal of Flying Lizard Motorsports, which participates in the United SportsCar Championship He currently resides in San Francisco, California.
Youth
Neiman was born in East Liverpool, Ohio and grew up in Dayton, Ohio. His mother was Judith Klapper Neiman and father was Ralph Bernard Neiman. The second child of four, he had two sisters and a younger brother. He graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor's degree inphilosophy
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and did graduate work in computer science.
Business career
Neiman was asystem architect
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at Maxitron Corporation in Marin County
Marin County is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 262,231. Its county seat and largest city is San Rafael. Marin County is acros ...
during the mid-1980s, Bloomberg Businessweek.com: Seth D. Neiman, Executive Profile & Biography/ref> and then Vice President of Product Development at Dahlgren Control Systems in San Francisco. In 1988, he became Vice President of Product Development for the TOPS Division of
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...
, that was developing the TOPS network file server system.
In 1994, he joined the venture capital firm Crosspoint Venture Partners, and becoming a general partner before departing. In 1995, he founded Brocade Communications Systems.
Neiman served as a lead investor and board member of various broadband computer networking companies, including Foundry Networks, Avanex, iPass, Shoreline, Juniper Networks, and NexPrise.
He has been Chairman of the Board of eSilicon Corporation since 2011, and a Director at AlephCloud Systems Inc. since 2013. He is also a Director at the facial expression recognition system company Emotient, Inc.
Racing career
Neiman formed Flying Lizard Motorsports team in 2003. In 2005, he competed in the ALMS GT2 class for the Porsche team as well as finishing third in GT2 class in the24 Hours of Le Mans
The 24 Hours of Le Mans (french: link=no, 24 Heures du Mans) is an endurance-focused Sports car racing, sports car race held annually near the town of Le Mans, France. It is the world's oldest active Endurance racing (motorsport), endurance r ...
. He finished 4th at Le Mans the following year and finished 9th in ALMS GT2 points for the same team in 2006. He also drove in four SCCA World Challenge races in the Touring Car class.
In 2007, he finished 10th in ALMS and the car failed to finish at Le Mans. In 2008, he captured a career best 5th place in ALMS GT2 points and finished 6th at Le Mans. In 2009, he again failed to finish at Le Mans and finished 7th in ALMS points.
He returned to the Flying Lizards team he owns in 2010, and competed in his first 24 Hours of Daytona
The 24 Hours of Daytona, also known as the Rolex 24 At Daytona for sponsorship reasons, is a 24-hour sports car endurance race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is run on the Sports Car Course layou ...
, finishing 9th overall and 2nd in GT.Sulka, Mike2010 Daytona 24: Grand Am Final Race Results – Porche, Action Express Racing Win!
''PaddockTalk'', January 21, 2010, Retrieved 2010-07-22
24 Hours of Le Mans results
IMSA SportsCar Championship results
( key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)References
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