ShotSpotter, PlateRanger, and CrimeTracer as a Unified and Integrated RTCC

Ralph Clark has been leading SoundThinking (formerly ShotSpotter) since 2010 as President and CEO. Clark led the transformation of ShotSpotter to a SaaS based business model ultimately taking the company public in 2017 and expanding it to become a leading platform based next generation public safety solutions company engaged with over 250 public safety agencies globally. Ralph has more than 30 years of corporate, financial and organizational leadership and was most recently prior to SoundThinking, the President and CEO of GuardianEdge Technologies Inc. where he drove a successful exit with its acquisition by Symantec. Earlier in his career he worked for IBM as a larges systems marketing representative and manager and post business school as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. Ralph received the 2019 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award for Northern California. Community service is a priority. He is a former board member and chair of Pacific Community Ventures, former board member and chair of the Oakland Boys and Girls Club, former trustee and Vice-Chair of the Oakland Museum of California, and former trustee of the American Conservatory Theater. Ralph currently serves on the Board of Directors of TriNet (TNET), a leading public company PEO firm, where he chairs of the Nomination and Governance Committee, is a Board member of Glowforge, a Seattle based venture capital backed connected 3D laser printing company and serves on the Harvard Business School’s California Advisory Board. He holds a B.S. in economics from the University of the Pacific and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.