Patrick Gross

Mr. Gross brings more than 35 years of business management experience to Taleo's Board of Directors. He is currently chairman of The Lovell Group, an investment and advisory firm he founded in 2002 to work with private venture-funded technology companies on a range of business, management and financial strategies.

Mr. Gross is currently a director of several companies: Capital One Financial Corporation and Waste Management, Inc, both listed on the NYSE; and Career Education Corporation, Liquidity Services, Inc, and Mobius Management Systems, Inc, three NASDAQ listed companies. He has served as lead and presiding director of several public companies and as chairman of the boards of two private equity owned companies.

Prior to The Lovell Group, Mr. Gross co-founded American Management Systems in 1970. After leading the company through several rounds of funding, Mr. Gross also saw the company through its successful IPO in 1979. Mr. Gross was responsible for leading the American Management System's movement to a vertical market structure where they focused on financial services, communications and government sectors. This strategic change in the 1980s fueled the Company's growth from a $60 million dollar company to a $1 billion company by 2002.

Mr. Gross holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MSE from the University of Michigan, and a BES from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.