Seth Neiman

Seth Neiman
Nationality	American
Born	June 27, 1954 (1954-06-27) (age 62) East Liverpool, Ohio, U.S.
24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 2005 - 2012, 2014 Teams Flying Lizard Motorsports Best finish 13th (3rd in class)(2005) Class wins 0

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

He is the team principal of Flying Lizard Motorsports, which participates in the United SportsCar Championship and the Pirelli World Challenge in partnership with K-Pax Racing. He currently resides in San Francisco, California.^[1]

Youth

Neiman was born in East Liverpool and grew up in Dayton, both in 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 was as a founder of 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).

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

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2005	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Johannes van Overbeek Lonnie Pechnik	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	323	13th	3rd
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Johannes van Overbeek Patrick Long	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	309	18th	4th
2007	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Johannes van Overbeek	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	124	DNF	DNF
2008	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Johannes van Overbeek	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	289	32nd	6th
2009	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Darren Law	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	194	DNF	DNF
2010	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Darren Law	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GT2	61	DNF	DNF
2011	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Darren Law Spencer Pumpelly	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Am	211	DNF	DNF
2012	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Patrick Pilet Spencer Pumpelly	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Am	313	27th	4th
2014	JMW Motorsport	Abdulaziz Al-Faisal Spencer Pumpelly	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Am	327	27th	7th

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