
Mohr brings a deep financial background and helped drive the success of one of SRI’s most significant commercial spinouts.
SRI, an independent nonprofit research institute headquartered in Silicon Valley, announced today that Marshall Mohr joined its board of directors effective January 1.
Mohr spent nearly two decades in senior leadership positions at Intuitive Surgical. Founded in 1995, Intuitive Surgical licensed SRI technology to create the da Vinci system and is now a global leader in telerobotic surgery. Mohr joined Intuitive Surgical in 2006 as senior vice president and CFO. He most recently served as the company’s executive vice president of global business services, pursuing methods of leveraging enterprise data for real-time decision-making and mapping the future role of technology in shaping the workplace.
Prior to joining Intuitive Surgical, Mohr served as vice president and CFO of Adaptec and as an audit partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he was the managing partner of the firm’s West Region Technology Industry Group and led its Silicon Valley accounting and audit advisory practice.
Mohr has served on the boards of companies such as PacBio (a developer and manufacturer of gene sequencing equipment), Veeva Systems (a cloud computing company), Plantronics (a global outfitter of professional-grade audio and video technology), and Atheros Communications (a developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless communications products). He holds a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting and finance from Western Michigan University.