BIO: Roy W. Camblin III
For the past two decades, Roy has divided his time between
homes in San Francisco and Paris and has been a senior
executive in the stock brokerage, banking, and high tech
industries with pacing organizations like Charles Schwab,
Wells Fargo Bank, Oracle, and Citibank. Roy’s specialty in
all these endeavors has been transformation — providing the
vision and leadership at the individual, organizational, and
community levels to effect major change, often under very
difficult circumstances. Roy’s primary passion is people—
touching other lives — helping individuals and communities
fully actualize their true potential. He has an uncanny talent
for seeing beyond current circumstances to what may be
possible, and has the communication and motivational skills to get people engaged in that
journey, making it their own. When once asked what his secret to success was, Roy
responded “Life is fiction, we are each the author of our own destiny. Simply write your
life forward to the outcome you desire.”
Roy is a citizen of the world. His wide-ranging career has taken him all over the globe as
a circus performer, instructor pilot in advanced jets, bush pilot, helicopter pilot, search
and rescue mission commander, strategic war planner, stock broker, and senior business
executive. He has lived or worked in Japan, Turkey, Philippines, Hawaii, Rotterdam,
Dubai, Paris, London, New York and towns in the American far southwest and the Deep
South. Roy has been immersed in many cultures, and has built a strong reputation as a
visionary, change agent, and very effective communicator.
Roy has an MS in Systems Management from USC, and a BS in Marketing from Florida
State University. He has also completed the Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College
and the Army’s Command and General Staff College. Honors and recognition have
included: Twice nominated by Pacific Air Forces for “Ten Outstanding Young Men
Of America” with numerous medals and achievement awards. In industry, Roy was
named “Visionary Of The Year” by Sun Micro Systems at Computer World’s annual
Top 100 event in 1992. During his most recent tenure as CEO at CleanFish, Inc., a social
venture trying to help save the oceans, they received Business Week’s 2009 Most
Promising Social Entrepreneurs Award and were named Responsibility Pioneer 2009 by
Time magazine…“companies changing the world”.
Roy has three grown children and lives in San Francisco with his wife Jane. Jane is
British and heads the French American International School, a major non-profit in the
Bay Area, where Roy has been her silent partner for almost thirty years. They both feel
strongly about diversity, tolerance, and the right education or training being the keys to
solving most of the world’s problems.
CAREER SUMMARY: Roy W. Camblin III
Lyris, Inc. chairman of the board (Feb 12- present)
CleanFish, Inc. Chief Executive Officer, board member (Apr 09- Mar 10)
Zebra (Navis) Enterprise Solutions Senior VP Engineering (Jul 06 – Nov 08)
Full-time Writer, Artist, & Photographer (Sep 02-present)
Interim CEO at two early stage companies (Feb 02-Sep 02)
Epiphany, Inc. Senior VP, CIO, Executive Staff (Jan 01 – May 02)
Netgateway, Inc. CEO, board member, (Jul 99 – Nov 00)
CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Executive VP, Global CIO, Global Operations Board,
Executive Committee (May 98 – July 99)
Citibank/Citicorp Head, Global Operations & Technology, Investment Products
and Distribution, (Jan 96 – Apr 98)
Oracle Systems Corporation, Senior VP, Global CIO, Management Committee (Jul
93 – Dec 95)
Wells Fargo Bank, Senior VP, Operations & Systems, (Jun 91 - Jul 93)
Wells Fargo Bank, VP and Senior Mgr, BankCard Systems (Jun 89 - Jun 91)
Charles Schwab & Co, Director, Strategic Projects (Jun 87- Jun 89); Series 7
registered trader.
Charles Schwab & Co, Director, Computer Services (Jun 85- Jun 87)
Charles Schwab & Co, Manager, Systems Engineering (May 84- May 85)
U.S. Leasing Corporation, Manager, Systems Development (May 82- May 84)
Trans-International Trading Corp- President, Founder (Apr 80- May 82)
US Army Reserve Officer, dual rated pilot, Airfield Commander (Jun 81-Oct 93)
US Air Force Officer, Instructor Pilot/ Flight Examiner/ Evaluator (Jul 69- Jun 81)