Over a 20-year career in technology and communications services, this entrepreneur has served in C-Level positions (CEO/COO/CFO/CTO) of both public and private companies using his extensive experience to help them build and manage through many different stages of growth. He is one of the founders and original engineering and chief operating executive of Internap Network Services (NASDAQ:INAP), as well as being the founder or early stage member of several other technology and communication companies.As a technology and business veteran, he has extensive experience in technology, product and service commercialization in the areas of network and systems software, management, deployment, telecommunications and Internet/network applications stretching back to 1989 while helping to lead the engineering and deployment of the Northwest's original Internet service provider sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation, NorthWestNet. He posses a hands-on, comprehensive understanding of challenges companies face at each different stage of their lifespan and has been directly responsible for building and managing corporate operational, and organizational structures to effectively scale companies from pre-market to $200MM+ in annual revenue across all functional areas of a corporation including product development, technical operations, marketing, and sales as well as finance, hr, corporate administration and information technology. Has also shared responsibility for raising raising a cumulative $700MM in venture and public financing across different organizations.He is a technology patent holder and is a recipient of the 2001 ComputerWorld/Smithsonian award for networking technology advancement. In the 1990's he was part of the Internet Engineering Task Force teams defining Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR addressing) and the Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGP4) routing protocol, both still the basis for routing data traffic across the Internet.Specialties: technology commercialization, telecommunications, Internet, network and systems, infrastructure, applications, services, venture capital investment, private equity investment, corporate growth stages, organizational development, dessert.