Board of Directors

Jay Borden
President & CEO, Nakina Systems

John (Jay) Borden was founder and CEO of telecom software company Granite Systems from its inception in 1993 through its successful sale to SAIC and merger with Telcordia in 2004. Granite was named four times to the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing private companies, and Borden was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 in the New England software category and New Hampshire High Tech Council Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000. Prior to founding Granite, Jay was at Digital Equipment Corporation in Sophia Antipolis, France and Littleton, MA, where he was responsible for the telecom network management software business. Jay began his career at the Yankee Group in Boston and later London, where he was a research director and responsible for starting the Euroscope research program. Jay holds a B.A. in Romance Languages, Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University.