James "Jim" Burke

1943 - 2022

James (Jim) Garry Burke died on December 14, 2022. He was born in Brooklyn on March 8, 1943, and grew up in Mount Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Mount Lebanon High School and attended the University of Wisconsin where he majored in electrical engineering and minored in nuclear engineering. Soon after his graduation, he became a naval officer serving on nuclear submarines from 1966 until 1974. He left the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander in 1974 and entered Harvard Business School, graduating with an MBA in 1976. After receiving his MBA, he worked at several Silicon Valley firms, most recently he was the CFO at Alteon Web Systems and prior to that he was the CFO of C-Cube Microsystems. He lived in Aptos California for many years, and is survived by his wife Dian Warnecke Burke and a son James and his wife Karen and three grandchildren, Morgan, Ryan, and Evan. His son, Andrew predeceased him.