Nicole Toomey Davis, President and CEO

Nicole Toomey Davis is the former President, CEO and co-founder of DoBox, Inc. the leading provider of residential gateway software and parental control solutions for the broadband gateway industry. Ms. Davis launched DoBox in 1999 to deliver simple, safe networking that supports the unique needs, technical abilities, and lifestyles of home users and led the company to a successful acquisition by Netopia, Inc in early 2002, subsequently acquired by Motorola. 

Ms. Davis has also been tapped by the administration of Utah's Governor Huntsman to help accelerate the commercialization of Utah's most promising University based technologies as Director of the Centers of Excellence Program.  Ms. Davis will continue to lead Enclavix as she lends her skills to the Centers of Excellent program.  Her service to the state is one more example of her commitment to helping build Utah's technology business community.  

Nicole is well regarded by her peers, having recently been named by Connect Magazine one of the 25 most influential business leaders in Utah for 2007, as ranked by Connect’s readers. She was also been selected as a member of the vSpring v|100, Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs in Utah, for three consecutive years. She has recently launched a new blog at Startupnotes.com, called Tales From the Entrepreneurial Front, to share insights she has gained about the process of entrepreneurship.  Utah Business named Ms. Davis to their "40 under 40" list of Utah's Rising Stars in their February 2006 issue.  In 2001 Nicole was named one of Utah Business's INNOVATORS - 30 Women to Watch.

Ms. Davis is an Officer of the MountainWest Capital Network and is an advisory board member for the Women Tech Council of Utah. She served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Utah Technology Council (formerly UITA)  from May of 2001 to November 2007.  She was a leader in the 2003 industry drive for adoption of the Utah's Venture Capital Enhancement Act, designed to increase the available supply of Venture Capital for Utah companies.

Ms. Davis enjoys working with new ventures, having served as a member of the Advisory Board of SiliconOptics, Inc., a photonic bandgap firm started in Utah.  Nicole has also advised S5 Wireless, Inc., an emerging location based services wireless firm s well as many emerging companies.

Prior to DoBox, Nicole accumulated over a decade of international marketing, strategy, and sales experience in the networking industry, focusing on wired and wireless local and wide area communications, network management and security, mobile management, and home networking.

Nicole was instrumental in the growth of mobile communications during her tenure at Megahertz, later acquired by U.S.Robotics and then 3Com Corporation, with key positions in marketing, business development, and strategic development, helping to grow the business from $100 million to $800 million. Ms. Davis holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is a published author, with both textbook contributions and press articles to her credit, the co-author of a pending United States patent, and is frequently called upon to speak at industry and business community events such as the BYU Management Society.