Chris Rust

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Investment Team, Series C Co-Sponsor @ Lilt
Menlo Park, CA, US
Chris Rust's Location
Menlo Park, California, United States, United States
About Chris Rust

Chris Rust is a venture capital investor in Silicon Valley. He works with technology entrepreneurs from the earliest stages of company creation to help their vision become outstanding companies. Chris's experiences include: 21 years of technology venture investing as Founder and Managing Partner of Clear Ventures, Partner at Sequoia Capital and USVP; 12 years of company building as co-founder (badge #2) and lead architect of broadband access pioneer Roadrunner/TWC Internet (Charter Communications); startup PLM at Carrier Access (IPO CACS) and Comcore (NSM); and technical staff at US West and MITRE. He is currently working on stealth projects while supporting his active portfolio.Since 1998 Chris has made early stage investments in 40 startups, starting 35x at seed/series A and 5x at series B. His first 24 exits have produced $32B+ of market cap from market-leading companies such as GoPro (IPO GPRO), Dune (BRCM), Mellanox (IPO MLNX), Syndesis (SUBEX), LVL7 (BRCM), VxTel (INTC), Avanex (IPO AVNX), Telera (Alcatel), SwitchOn (PMCS), and Abrizio (PMCS). His active VC portfolio provides innovative IT products and technology-enabled services related to cloud computing, data center and enterprise IT infrastructure, data science, information security, machine intelligence, meta-search, and predictive commerce. It includes Arrcus, Atmosic, Concentric, Frore, Omio, Robin, Wootcloud, and Zerto. Chris strives to help create opportunity in a supportive and respectful manner. He is seeking new investments with ambitious and committed founders who are pursuing compelling IT products and services.

Chris Rust's Current Company Details
Lilt

Lilt

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Investment Team, Series C Co-Sponsor
Menlo Park, CA, US
Website:
lilt.com
Employees:
636
Chris Rust Work Experience Details
  • Lilt
    Investment Team, Series C Co-Sponsor
    Lilt
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
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  • Cynch Ai
    Founding Investor, Board Member
    Cynch Ai Mar 2023 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Founded by former EY AI CTO Dr. Nigel Duffy, Cynch provides reasoning, machine learning, and Generative AI for financial decision making.
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  • Wherobots.Ai
    Founding Investor, Board Member
    Wherobots.Ai Sep 2022 - Present
    Founded by the original creators of Apache Sedona Dr. Mo Sarwat and Dr. Jia Yu, Wherobots is the leading Data+AI platform for spatial and temporal analytics at Internet scale. The Wherobots AI platform is trusted in mission-critical production use cases at leading enterprises around the globe. Joined BoD in June 2023.
  • Aicrete
    Founding Investor, Board Member
    Aicrete May 2022 - Present
    Richmond, California, Us
    Founded by Dr. Parham Aghdasi, AICRETE reduce both the cost and environmental impact of concrete through a unique "recipe-as-a-service" approach that leverages artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and highly specialized concrete material science domain knowledge. AICRETE's vertical SaaS platform works with concrete producers to characterize and optimize feedstock materials to minimize their concrete mixture costs and reduce their CO2 footprint by up to 35%. Joined Bod in July 2023.
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  • Gen1E Lifesciences Inc.
    Seed Investor, Advisor
    Gen1E Lifesciences Inc. Dec 2021 - Present
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    Founded by Dr. Ritu Lal and Soujanya Bhumkar, Gen1E has built a unique and formidable AI/ML platform to accelerate end-to-end therapeutic drug discovery, development and commercialization. Gen1E has designed proprietary Machine Learning models that uses disease mapping databases to identify other indications for the drug portfolio and treatment pathways they are pioneering , allowing them to broaden the scope of diseases which could be treated with their drug portfolio. Neural Networks, Gradient Boosting Methods and Hidden Markov Models are used to accelerate drug development. Gen1E's first compound treats Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) - inflammation in the lung lining that causes death from COVID, pneumonia, and other respiratory illnesses
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  • Lilt
    Investment Team, Series C Co-Sponsor
    Lilt Dec 2021 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Founded by Dr. Spence Green and Dr. Jon DeNiro, Lilt is the most advanced AI solution for enterprise translation and Localization. Lilt's mission is to make the world’s information available to everyone in their preferred language
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  • Acante
    Founding Investor, Board Member
    Acante Oct 2021 - Present
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Acante.AI Identifies and eliminates data security gaps in the Cloud with the industry’s first end-to-end data security platform that empowers security teams to comprehensively protect the ever-growing data attack surface in their cloud-native environments.
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  • Avicena Tech
    Founding Investor, Board Member
    Avicena Tech Nov 2019 - Present
    Sunnyvale, California, Us
    Avicena is the pioneer and industry leader in LED-based interconnects for Tbps-scale chip-to-chip communications. Avicena's LightBundle™ interconnect achieves 10x – 100x power and density improvements over any alternative for 1 cm – 10 meter reach.
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  • Tignis
    Seed Investor, Board Member
    Tignis May 2019 - Present
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Tignis combines the precise insights of physics with the most advanced AI and ML data science to give semiconductor equipment manufacturers, wafer fabs, and components and materials suppliers unprecedented automation and process control. Their unique physics-driven AI models allow advanced manufacturers to exploit a new future based on big data analytics for real time industrial process control —understanding how their equipment will operate in modes never previously observed. Tignis provides a new ability to understand complex industrial equipment behavior and performance, select the best states of operation, and continually optimize mission critical manufacturing processes.
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  • Concentric.Ai
    Seed Investor, Board Member
    Concentric.Ai Jan 2019 - Present
    Concentric is the leading provider of autonomous data security (ADS) solutions for the modern enterprise. Their world class team of security software experts are disrupting the foundational data monitoring and protection layer of the enterprise security stack with deep ML. Concentric is the industry's first "semantic data intelligence" platform to be able to find, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data. Concentric’s deep learning solution prevents data loss by autonomously discovering data, categorizing content, and optimizing data security posture. It protects structured and unstructured data stored in the cloud or on-prem. Their product suite uses deep ML and natural language technologies with industry and functional area specific models to do extremely accurate and fine grain classification and analytics of an enterprise's data assets, without rules or policies.
  • Clear Ventures
    Partner
    Clear Ventures Jun 2016 - Present
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Venture Capital investor. Founding Partner of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that is purpose-built to help startup teams win in DeepTech, AI, and the Intelligent Enterprise. With $335M of committed capital from a world-class institutional investor base that has over $200B of AUM, Clear provides capital, connections, and company building assistance from the earliest stages of company creation to bold startup teams so their efforts produce market-leading companies. We strive to help create opportunity and be measurably helpful to earn the right for the first call from the teams that we collaborate with. More at www.clear.ventures.
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  • Atmosic Technologies
    Founding Investor, Advisor
    Atmosic Technologies May 2017 - Present
    Atmosic Technologies is a stealth mode startup working on next-generation low power platforms for the Internet-of-Things (IoT). The Atmosic team were previously key product leaders at Aetheros Communications from company inception through IPO and acquisition by Qualcomm. See www.atmosic.com for information about job opportunities with this world-class team.
  • Arrcus
    Founding Investor, Board Member
    Arrcus Sep 2016 - Present
    Arrcus is a networking software company that sells ArcOC - the first hyper-scalable software network operating system. With a robust Internet-scale L3 routing capability, built-in YANG/OpenConfig support, and a best-in-class dataplane abstraction layer to enable the broadest merchant chipset support, and a cutting edge cloud-native design, ArcOS enables the widespread transition from legacy proprietary embedded networking systems to an open integration approach with complete flexibility across merchant hardware solutions. Founding investor.
  • Omio
    Series A Investor, Advisor
    Omio Mar 2014 - Present
    Berlin, De
    Formerly GoEuro. The leading European travel metasearch engine for comparing the price and journey time of air, rail and bus travel options in a single search. Sourced. Advisor. Series A investor.
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  • Swift Navigation
    Advisor, Series A Investor
    Swift Navigation Aug 2015 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Swift Navigation provides centimeter-accurate geo-location and positioning technology for high value industrial applications such as machine-controlled agriculture, drones, vehicles, and construction, anywhere on Earth. Their products deliver 100 times better accuracy than the GPS in your cell phone - at a tenth of the price of the competition. Swift Navigation is enabling a world where fields farm themselves, drones fly safely, and humans lay the foundations of the future.
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  • Espresa
    Seed Investor, Board Member
    Espresa Aug 2017 - Present
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    Espresa is the world’s first fully inclusive Culture Benefits® platform for enterprises worldwide. Their enterprise SaaS product provides an immersive employee experience and create a workplace powered by total wellbeing, community, and recognition. Espresa's easy to use and intuitive workflow automation software streamlines employee reimbursements, allowance, and lifestyle spending accounts (LSAs) for your entire workforce no matter where they’re located and in their own native currency and language on demand. Espresa’s reimbursements, allowances, and LSAs platform enable HR and people teams to quickly create an unlimited number of reimbursement programs, globally. Espresa's SaaS offering is used daily by the employees of hundreds of companies in over 40 countries to power great workplaces. With Espresa’s rewards and recognition platform, everyone is empowered to recognize and socialize achievements in meaningful, timely, and memorable ways that meet the moment.
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  • Robin.Io
    Series A Investor, Advisor
    Robin.Io May 2014 - Feb 2022
    San Jose, California, Us
    Software vendor re-imagining the IT infrastructure stack for big data and analytics workloads. Robin enables distributed computing applications that traditionally require dedicated clusters to be provisioned in minutes, scaled from 10s to 1000s of nodes, share data across applications, and achieve higher application performance on a fraction of the hardware. Acquired by Rakutan for $325M in 2/22 and now the foundational cloud infrastructure mgmt software for their 5G mobile cloud.
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  • Reflektion
    Series A Investor, Advisor
    Reflektion Dec 2013 - Feb 2021
    San Mateo, California, Us
    Software vendor that helps retailers win by dramatically increasing digital shopper conversion rates from site visit to purchase order. Sourced. Advisor. Series A investor. Marquee customers include Disney, Converse, Uniqlo, O'Neill, and Gander Mountain. In October 2015 named "Digital Commerce Startup of the Year" by Shop.org. Acquired by Sitecore in 2/21 and now the AI and cognitive search processing engine for their digital experience platform.
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  • Zerto
    Board Observer, Advisor
    Zerto Aug 2011 - Apr 2019
    Boston, Massachusetts, Us
    Software vendor providing the leading IT resiliency, business continuity, disaster recovery, and workload mobility solution for private and public cloud computing environments. Deployed at 9000+ customers across 50+ countries worldwide. USVP's 8/11 Series B investment in Zerto was sourced and led by Jacques Benkoski. I contributed to the investment supporting Jacques as a DD team member, formal investment co-sponsor, and a BoD observer from 2011 to 2019. Zerto was acquired by HP Enterprise for $374M in July of 2021.
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  • Gopro
    Advisor, Series A Investor, Board Observer
    Gopro Dec 2008 - Nov 2013
    San Mateo, Ca, Us
    The world's most versatile camera. Sourced. Avid product user. Active advisor to company from Dec 2008 to March 2011 on product roadmap and corporate strategy. Wrote the first PRD to "network connect" the Hero cameras via wireless for live streaming and wireless remote control use cases. Member of the 4Q10 Cineform acquisition team, now the "GoPro Studio" video editing software. Board Observer from close of series A in March 2011 to November 2013. June 2014 IPO under ticker GPRO. Buy at www.gopro.com.
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  • U.S. Venture Partners
    Partner
    U.S. Venture Partners Nov 2004 - Jun 2013
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
    Venture capital investor. Responsible for investments in 14 early stage companies, starting 9x at seed/series A and 5x at series B. The first 7 exits created $12.7B+ of market cap from 1 IPO and 6 acquisitions, and include GoPro (GPRO), Dune (BRCM) and LVL7 (BRCM). The remaining companies are active, and include Appthority, CloudPassage, Kaiam, and Zerto. Notable contributor as investment team member on 8 more USVP portfolio companies that created $1.0B+ in market cap from 8 acquisitions. Diligence team member & formal investment co-sponsor of AltoBeam series B (active), Trusteer series A (IBM), and Optichron series D (NETL). Assumed BoD seat on investments led by others such as Commerce5 (DRIV) and Stratalight (OPXT) to provide operational assistance. With over 25 trips to Tel Aviv, one of the most active contributors to USVP's successful IT VC practice in Israel.
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  • Appthority
    Investment Team & Series A Co-Sponsor
    Appthority Mar 2012 - May 2012
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Software vendor using advanced analytics to help enterprises identify and stop the significant security threat from malware embedded deeply in mobile and enterprise applications. Investment team member and formal series A co-sponsor (USVP's first investment round). In November 2014 Appthority's App Risk Management service was named a Best Application Security winner in the TechTarget Information Security™ magazine and SearchSecurity.com™ 2014 Readers’ Choice Awards.
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  • Altobeam Inc.
    Investment Team & Series B Co-Sponsor
    Altobeam Inc. Jul 2010 - Oct 2010
    Beijing, Cn
    Semiconductor manufacturer selling advanced wireless communication ICs for the Chinese Digital TV standard called DTMB. Investment team member and formal series B co-sponsor (USVP's first investment round). In November 2014 AltoBeam announced a design win for their DTMB tuners with Samsung Electronics.
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  • Dune Networks
    Board Member
    Dune Networks Oct 2007 - Jan 2010
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    The leading vendor of high performance packet switching and traffic management solutions. Sourced. Series B lead investor. Acquired by Broadcom in January 2010 for $205m. The core platform ICs inside the Arista 7500.
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  • Optichron
    Investment Team & Series D Co-Sponsor
    Optichron Feb 2009 - Apr 2009
    Semiconductor vendor selling adaptive channel equalization ICs for broadband mobile infrastructure. First USVP investment made in December 2002. Independent diligence lead and formal series D investment co-sponsor in April 2009. Made first introduction to NetLogic in November 2010 via VP Strategy Kelvin Khoo, which led to the acquisition in April 2011 for $198m in cash and milestone payments.
  • Trusteer
    Investment Team & Series A Co-Sponsor
    Trusteer Jul 2008 - Oct 2008
    Software to help online banks, brokerages, and retailers secure the consumer desktop from financial malware attacks and fraudulent websites. Investment team member and formal series A co-sponsor (USVP's first investment round). In July 2008 flew to Tel Aviv for the first meeting between USVP and Trusteer to help secure investment in a highly competitive situation, then co-authored the first investment recommendation memo on the flight home. Attended various BoD meetings, office visits, conferences, and team dinners with Trusteer in Tel Aviv, Israel between July 2008 and June 2013. Acquired by IBM in September 2013 for $700m prior to series B. In August 2014 CB Insights ranked Trusteer as #6 in the top 25 US tech exits over $100m since 2009 by "value creation ratio" (exit price/capital raised).The Trusteer founders went on to found Transmit Security (active).
  • Lvl7 Systems
    Board Member
    Lvl7 Systems Feb 2005 - Jan 2007
    Us
    Software for enterprise infrastructure. Acquired by Broadcom in January 2007 for $105m.
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  • Commerce5
    Board Member
    Commerce5 Jan 2005 - Dec 2005
    Software for e-commerce infrastructure. First USVP investment made in October 2000. Assumed existing USVP BoD seat from Jan 2005 to acquisition by Digital River in Dec 2005 for $50m.
  • Mahi Networks
    Board Member
    Mahi Networks Sep 1999 - Nov 2005
    Us
    The world's first 320Gbps metro core ethernet switch with integrated STS1 cross-connect. Seed/founding investor. Interim CEO from February 2002 to October 2004. Acquired Photuris and brought the industry's first ROADM to market. Design wins at Buckeye Telecom, Equinix, FP&L, MCI, Qwest, SCANA, TWT, VZ, and others. Merger with Meriton in November 2005, then acquired by Xtera in 2007.
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  • Afara Websystems
    Board Member
    Afara Websystems Oct 2000 - Jul 2002
    The first 8 core, 4 thread per core chip multi-processor. Sourced. Series A investor. Acquired by SUN Microsystems, and became the Niagra processor families, now the core technology inside the multi-$B Oracle Exadata franchise. The Afara team went on to lead 1,000+ engineering team at Oracle for core CPU development, and went on to found Ambarella (IPO AMBA).
  • Sequoia Capital
    Partner
    Sequoia Capital Feb 1998 - Jul 2002
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
    Associate - February 1998 to November 1999; Partner - November 1999 to July 2002Venture capital investor. Responsible for early stage investments in 15 companies across Sequoia Capital funds VII to X, starting 13x at seed/series A and 2x at series B. These startup teams created $19.5B+ in market cap from 2 IPOs, 12 acquisitions, and 1 out-of-business: Abrizio (PMCS), Afara (SUN), Avanex (AVNX), Mahi (Meriton), Mellanox (MLNX), MEMX (oob), Nexsi (JNPR), Onetta (BKHM), Santur (NPTX), Springbank (CFLO), SwitchOn Networks (PMCS), Syndesis (Subex Azure), Telera (Alcatel), Turin (DELL), and VxTel (INTC).Notable contributor as diligence team member and investment co-sponsor, then board observer for Netscreen (NSCN) series B (1st institutional round).
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  • Turin Networks
    Board Member
    Turin Networks Nov 1999 - Mar 2002
    Us
    The first multi-service provisioning platform (MSPP) with 10Gbps OC192 ports. Sourced. Series A/founding investor. With over $100m in ttm revenues, merger of equals with Force10 Networks in May 2009, then acquired by DELL in July 2011 for $700m.
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  • Telera
    Board Observer
    Telera Sep 1998 - Mar 2002
    Software vendor selling advanced control plane solutions for telephony applications over the Internet. Series A/founding investor. Acquired by Alcatel in July of 2002 for $136m.
  • Mellanox
    Board Observer
    Mellanox May 1999 - Feb 2002
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    The inventor of "Infiniband", and a leading provider of high performance interconnect solutions for HPC applications. Sourced. Series A/founding investor for Sequoia Capital, in collaboration with USVP as the series A co-lead. April 2007 IPO under ticker MLNX. See www.mellanox.com. Acquired by NVidia for $6.9B in 3/19.
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  • Nexsi Systems
    Board Member
    Nexsi Systems Mar 2000 - Nov 2001
    Network security appliance. Series B investor. Acquired by Juniper Networks in July 2002. The Nexsi 32 core network security processor's A0 tape-out produced over $150m in revenue for Juniper.The Nexsi team went on to form the core engineering team of RMI, which was acquired by NetLogic and drove the Broadcom acquisition of NetLogic for their core network processor technology.
  • Vxtel
    Board Member
    Vxtel Dec 1999 - Apr 2001
    The first voice-over-IP solution to enable telephony on the Internet. Sourced. Series A investor. Acquired by Intel Corporation in April 2001 for $550m.The VxTel team went on to found Virident which was acquired by Western Digital in September 2013 for $685m.
  • Switchon Networks
    Board Member
    Switchon Networks Sep 1999 - Oct 2000
    The first OC48 classification processor. Sourced. Series A/founding investor. Acquired by PMC Sierra in September 2000 for $450m.
  • Springbank
    Seed Investor
    Springbank Feb 2000 - Jul 2000
    Software vendor building caching solutions. Acquired from incubation by Cacheflow in July 2000.
  • Abrizio
    Board Observer
    Abrizio Jun 1998 - Jun 2000
    The first 320 Gbps packet switch. Series A/founding investor. Acquired by PMC Sierra in August of 2000 for $400m prior to series B.The Abrizio Founder Dr. Nick McKeown went on to co-found Nicira, which was acquired by VMWare in July of 2012 for $1.26B.
  • Avanex
    Director Of Product Management, Board Observer
    Avanex Mar 1998 - Feb 2000
    Us
    The first interleaving filter for DWDM systems to enable 50GHz wavelength spacing. Seed/founding investor. Acting Director of Product Management for first year after seed financing. Helped transition the company from a ROADM systems vendor to a merchant component vendor commercializing their best-in-class interleaving filter. February 2000 IPO under ticker AVNX.
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  • Syndesis
    Board Observer
    Syndesis Nov 1998 - Jan 2000
    Software vendor selling operations support system solutions for Internet infrastructure. Sourced. Series A investor. Acquired by Subex Azure in January 2007 for $164.5m.
  • Netscreen Technologies
    Board Observer
    Netscreen Technologies Apr 1998 - Oct 1998
    Us
    Network security appliance. Diligence team member and formal series B investment co-sponsor (1st VC round). IPO under ticker NSCN in Dec 2001, then acquired by JNPR in April 2004 for $4.2B.
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  • Carrier Access Corporation
    Senior Director Of Product Management
    Carrier Access Corporation Aug 1997 - Jan 1998
    Us
    Responsible for managing the product line of an early stage telecommunications equipment manufacturer selling multi-line voice and data T1 and T3 multiplexers. Managed customer service and support for 35 CLEC customers including Brooks, GTE, Sprint, TCG, Worldcom. Launched the industry’s first 1 RU SNMP-managed M13 multiplexer, with over 1000 M13s shipped in the first 2 months of GA. Executed a successful pre-IPO trade press, analyst, and investor tour. Left the company to learn technology venture investing at Sequoia Capital. Nasdaq IPO July 1998 under ticker symbol CACS. Acquired by Force10 Networks in December 2007. Funded by Menlo Ventures and NEA.
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  • Comcore
    Director Of Product Management
    Comcore Oct 1996 - Jul 1997
    Responsible for writing the functional specifications and product requirements for a DSP-intensive Gigabit-over-copper Ethernet PHY transceiver, working with customers to validate the design specifications, managing program schedules, and defining the product roadmap. Left company to move back to Boulder, Colorado for family reasons. Acquired by National Semiconductor in April 1998 for $122m. Funded by Benchmark and Norwest.
  • Sourcecom
    Broadband Product Manager
    Sourcecom Jun 1995 - Oct 1996
    Responsible for PLM on three generations of products; InnerWare G3 “router-on-a-PCMCIA card”, BANC 6000 (the world’s first DSL access multiplexer), and BANC 9000 multi-service access switch. Helped grow the G3 module OEM business 800% from $0.5 Million to $4 Million in sale from customers such as Westell, Orkit, Amati, and Pairgain. Fluent in xDSL, T1, T3, OCn, Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, 802.3, 802.1d, IP, spanning tree, ARP, SNMP, backplane and mechanical design for NEBS3 complaint carrier-class products. Sourcecom was acquired by ACT Networks in October 1996. ACT Networks was then acquired by Clarent Corporation (CLRN) for $142m in August 2000.
  • Roadrunner / Time Warner Cable Internet
    Co-Founder & Lead Infrastructure Architect
    Roadrunner / Time Warner Cable Internet Feb 1993 - May 1995
    Founding Team Member (badge #2) with Founder Dr Mario Vecchi, and Lead Network Architect for broadband internet service pioneer Roadrunner (re-branded as Time Warner Cable Internet). With over 13 million subscribers and $4 Billion in CY14 revenue, Roadrunner has since grown to be one of the largest mass market residential broadband Internet service providers in the U.S. Contributed to all aspects of the first commercial deployment of high speed residential Internet access services over a two-way "hybrid fiber coax" CATV plant. Core member of the founding engineering team that defined the end-to-end network, server, and content management architecture for an initial service area of one million homes passed in the first five cities (i.e Elmira New York, San Diego, CA). Helped grow the team to ~200 people. Founding member of the Cable Labs MCNS DOCSIS cable modem standard. In May 2015 Charter Communications announced the acquisition of Time Warner Cable for $55 Billion.
  • Us West Advanced Technologies
    Member Of Technical Staff
    Us West Advanced Technologies May 1991 - May 1995
    Software programmer and systems engineer in the Broadband Architecture Group. Performed modeling, simulation, traffic engineering, and capacity planning for early packet-based transport and switching infrastructure. Worked on Frame Relay, ATM, IP backbone, and digital loop carrier deployment initiatives. Wrote technical specifications for RFPs and did vendor selection supporting these deployments. Assigned to Time Warner Roadrunner on a near full time basis from April 1993 to May 1995 to represent US West's 25% ownership position in Time Warner Cable.
  • University Of Colorado Boulder
    Teaching Assistant, Then Adjunct Faculty Member
    University Of Colorado Boulder Jan 1990 - Jun 1994
    Boulder, Colorado, Us
    January 1990 to May 1991 - Teaching Assistant for senior year and first year graduate EE/CS and telecommunications engineering classes such as communication theory, telecommunications systems engineering, C programming in the UNIX environment, computer & local area networks. Fair trade for waived tuition and a wish sandwich stipend.June 1991 to June 1994 - Adjunct faculty member teaching one graduate class per semester in computer & local area networks.
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  • Mitre
    Member Of Technical Staff
    Mitre May 1988 - May 1992
    Mclean, Va, Us
    Full and part time software programmer doing R&D on fast packet networks and military communications systems. Implemented protocols, wrote and tested algorithms, developed various modulation and encoding approaches, and did network simulation for large scale network infrastructure deployments. Worked on FTS-2000, the national airspace communications network (NACS), the Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN), and various military communications networks. Worked on "MITRE-NET", an early implementation of a CSMA-CD local area network. Programmed in C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, TurboBasic, SPICE, SQL, and MatLab. Used UNIX (C and Korn shells), DOS, and VAX VMS environments.
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  • Wang Laboratories
    Electronic Technician To Software Engineer
    Wang Laboratories Jan 1984 - May 1987
    Full and part time co-op student employee at Wang Labs in Lowell Massachusetts. Started as a soldering technician reworking a variety of PCBs. Wrote GIPB and IEEE488 test automation software for the manufacture of mainframe motherboards. Developed and maintained a high throughput automated test harness to do functional verification and ICT of mainframe motherboards. Worked on the MAC layer for WangNet - an early broadband LAN over coaxial cable. These learning were helpful on the CableLabs MCNC DOCSIS v1 standard while launching Time Warner Roadrunner years later.
  • Nokia
    Electronic Technician To Field Engineer
    Nokia 1987 - 1987
    Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi
    Electronic technician building microwave radio equipment. Programmer writing manufacturing test automation scripts and embedded systems software. Installed communications equipment throughout Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Developed a deep respect for the Finnish people.
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Chris Rust Education Details

  • University Of Colorado Boulder
    University Of Colorado Boulder
    Engineering Management
  • University Of Colorado Boulder
    University Of Colorado Boulder
    Telecommunications Engineering
  • University Of Massachusetts Lowell
    University Of Massachusetts Lowell
    Electrical Engineering
  • University Of Massachusetts Lowell
    University Of Massachusetts Lowell
    Electrical Engineering

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