Seth Neiman

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Seth Neiman
SethAtLeMans2014.jpg
Seth Neiman of Flying Lizard Motorsports at the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans
Nationality Flag of the United States.svg American
BornJune 27, 1954 (1954-06-27) (age 69)
East Liverpool, Ohio, U.S.
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years 20052012, 2014
Teams Flying Lizard Motorsports
Best finish13th (3rd in class)(2005)
Class wins0

Seth Neiman (born June 27, 1954) is an American computer industry businessperson and venture capitalist in California, and a professional racing driver.

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He is the team principal of Flying Lizard Motorsports, which participates in the United SportsCar Championship He currently resides in San Francisco, California. [1]

Youth

Neiman was born in East Liverpool, Ohio and grew up in Dayton, Ohio. His mother was Judith Klapper Neiman and father was Ralph Bernard Neiman. [2] The second child of four, he had two sisters and a younger brother.

He graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor's degree in philosophy and did graduate work in computer science. [3]

Business career

Neiman was a system architect at Maxitron Corporation in Marin County during the mid-1980s, [4] [5] and then Vice President of Product Development at Dahlgren Control Systems in San Francisco. [4] [6] In 1988, he became Vice President of Product Development for the TOPS Division of Sun Microsystems, that was developing the TOPS network file server system. [4]

In 1994, he joined the venture capital firm Crosspoint Venture Partners, and becoming a general partner before departing. [4] In 1995, he founded Brocade Communications Systems. [3] [4] Neiman served as a lead investor and board member of various broadband computer networking companies, including Foundry Networks, Avanex, iPass, Shoreline, Juniper Networks, and NexPrise. [7]

He has been Chairman of the Board of eSilicon Corporation since 2011, and a Director at AlephCloud Systems Inc. since 2013. [4] He is also a Director at the facial expression recognition system company Emotient, Inc. [4] [8]

Seth Neiman Flying Lizard Porsche LBGP (2012). Seth Neiman Flying Lizard Porsche LBGP 2012.jpg
Seth Neiman Flying Lizard Porsche LBGP (2012).

Racing career

Neiman formed Flying Lizard Motorsports team in 2003. In 2005, he competed in the ALMS GT2 class for the Porsche team as well as finishing third in GT2 class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He finished 4th at Le Mans the following year and finished 9th in ALMS GT2 points for the same team in 2006. He also drove in four SCCA World Challenge races in the Touring Car class.

In 2007, he finished 10th in ALMS and the car failed to finish at Le Mans. In 2008, he captured a career best 5th place in ALMS GT2 points and finished 6th at Le Mans. In 2009, he again failed to finish at Le Mans and finished 7th in ALMS points. [9]

He returned to the Flying Lizards team he owns in 2010, and competed in his first 24 Hours of Daytona, finishing 9th overall and 2nd in GT. [10]

24 Hours of Le Mans results

YearTeamCo-DriversCarClassLapsPos.Class
Pos.
2005 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Johannes van Overbeek
Flag of the United States.svg Lonnie Pechnik
Porsche 911 GT3-RSRGT232313th3rd
2006 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Johannes van Overbeek
Flag of the United States.svg Patrick Long
Porsche 911 GT3-RSRGT230918th4th
2007 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of Germany.svg Jörg Bergmeister
Flag of the United States.svg Johannes van Overbeek
Porsche 997 GT3-RSRGT2124DNFDNF
2008 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of Germany.svg Jörg Bergmeister
Flag of the United States.svg Johannes van Overbeek
Porsche 997 GT3-RSRGT228932nd6th
2009 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of Germany.svg Jörg Bergmeister
Flag of the United States.svg Darren Law
Porsche 997 GT3-RSRGT2194DNFDNF
2010 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of Germany.svg Jörg Bergmeister
Flag of the United States.svg Darren Law
Porsche 997 GT3-RSRGT261DNFDNF
2011 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Darren Law
Flag of the United States.svg Spencer Pumpelly
Porsche 997 GT3-RSRGTE
Am
211DNFDNF
2012 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of France.svg Patrick Pilet
Flag of the United States.svg Spencer Pumpelly
Porsche 997 GT3-RSRGTE
Am
31327th4th
2014 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg JMW Motorsport Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Abdulaziz Al-Faisal
Flag of the United States.svg Spencer Pumpelly
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 GTE
Am
32727th7th
Sources: [11] [12]

IMSA SportsCar Championship results

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

YearTeamClassMakeEngine1234567891011RankPoints
2014 Flying Lizard Motorsports GTD Audi R8 LMS ultra Audi 5.2L V10 DIS
5
SEB
5
LAG
5
DET
13
WGI
7
MOS
14
IND ROA VIR AUS
13
RAT
12
22nd167
Source: [12]

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References

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