Paula Lynn Dowdy is on the board of AVEVA Group Plc, BlueGnome Ltd. and Illumina Cambridge Ltd. and SVP & GM-Commercial Operations, Europe at Illumina, Inc.

In the past she was Senior VP-Cloud, Software & Managed Services at Cisco, Inc.

Ms. Dowdy received an MBA from Pepperdine University School of Law, an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Pepperdine University.