Bitters Belong in the Drinks

One of Morgan’s girls is Dana Evan, a member of the Babes in Boyland who was the founding CFO of VeriSign when Morgan, among others, proposed her as a board member and audit committee chair for both MySQL, an open source database company, and Omniture, a Web analytics business. Evan joined both boards in 2006, and she now sits on six corporate boards, two of which are public—which is a rarity for anyone, male or female.

Another gal is Karen White, whom Morgan met when White was a senior executive at Oracle in the 1990s. They stayed in contact when White moved to Pequot, a private equity firm, and in 2007, Morgan suggested White as a potential board member for SolarWinds, a network management software company in Austin, ...

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