Susan Kelly Barnes is an alumna of

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She was

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of the Macintosh Division at

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. When

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left Apple Computer in 1985, she joined Jobs and other Apple managers to cofound

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Computer, Inc. She served as Vice President and

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of NeXT Computer from 1985 to 1991. As NeXT's Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Barnes helped raise significant funding that helped NeXT weather its slow start. The most notable transaction was a $100 million investment by Canon Inc. in 1989 for a 16.7 percent stake in NeXT. That gave NeXT an implied valuation of $600 million, astonishingly high for a company that was not yet shipping any products. After leaving NeXT Computer, Susan Barnes was Chief Financial Officer of Intuitive Surgical from 1997 to 2005.

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