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Museum of Contemporary Art, will assumwe her new responsibilities in San Josebeginninv Sept. 15. She will oversee the museum’s $5 millionm budget as well as a staff of32 full-tims employees, 40 seasonal employees and 150 volunteers. Appointed in 2001 to the Scottsdalde post, Krane was formerly director of University of Colorad Art Museum in She succeedsDan Keegan, who resignede in February after seven years in the position to take over managemenft of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Sunnyvale-based Liga Systemsz Inc. named Jim Hogan to its boarcd of directors.
Hogan has worked in the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry for33 years, serving as a seniord executive in electronic design automation, semiconductor intellectual semiconductor equipment and fabrication Hogan has held a variety of executive positionx at several public companies, including senior vice presideng of business development at Artisan Componentw and senior vice president of businesds development and the senior member of the officr of chief technologist at Cadencw Design Systems Inc. San Jose-based netCustomer Inc. named Davied Hare chairman of the board.
Hare has more than 30 yearsx of enterprise softwaresupport experience, most recentlyg as the senior vice president of global product supportg at Oracle Corp. Before that he was groul vice president of supporrt services atPeopleSoft Inc. Foster City-basedx Gilead Sciences Inc. named Dr. Richar J. Whitley to the board. He is a professor of microbiology, medicine and neurosurgery at the Universityh of Alabamaat Birmingham. Sunnyvale-based Ariba Inc. nameed Harriet Edelman to its boardof directors. During a career that spanned more than 25 years at Avon Products Edelman served in key leadership including her most recent post as senior vice president and chiefcinformation officer.
Santa Clara-based XenoPort Inc. named Per G. H. Lofberf to its board of Lofberg is currently chairman and a managing director of PharmaCapital Ventures. Untilo recently, he was president and chief executive officer of Merckj CapitalVentures LLC.