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Santa Barbara, CA, US

Sherpa, LLC services include Business Plan creation, funding strategies, Investor due-diligence, product development plans, go-to-market, competitive analysis, and interim hands-on Executive assignments.

Santa Barbara, California, US

Transformed Optical Circuit Switch portfolio for global leader in Photonic Switching using 3D MEMS technology. New market initiatives include web-scale Data Centers and Software Defined Networks (SDN). New S-Series platform developed included low-cost, low-power, compact high-density electronics and new Switch software resulting in 15X increase in annual.

San Francisco, CA, US

Advised on initial Business Plan and Funding for marketing vertical social networking company.

Transformed $10M revenue Ottawa-based Optical Extension vendor into $50M+, 300+ customer, global Intelligent Edge Services solution vendor with new 7000 Series Platform., Strategic partnership with Fujitsu FW9500 Optical ROADM Subsystem (Verizon FiOS) and partnerships with ECI Telecom, Ericsson, Fiber Home. Transitioned supply chain from Ottawa to.

US

SavaJe spent 7 years and $100M developing a complete Java software OS platform for mobile phones aimed at top tier European GSM operators. Recruited to complete the platform, build global sales team for device vendors in Korea, Taiwan and China, operator marketing team for Vodafone and T-Mobile (investors) and repositioned the platform to Advanced Java on.

Led the repositioning of network-based security solutions equipment provider that consumed $100M in venture capital. Replaced the leadership team and recapitalized the company with a $20M Series A, signed strategic OEM agreement with Alcatel for wireless security gateway platform and re-focused on wireless and triple play markets. Raised a follow-on $25M.

New York, NY, US

Worked with leading global private equity firm to evaluate private / public communications and networking portfolio opportunities with a focus on cable video on-demand, IP TV and wireless markets.

Hanover, Maryland, US

Repositioned spin-out from Bell Labs / Lucent into a carrier-grade Optical Ethernet and DWDM network solution provider for gloabal service providers and a market leader for next-generation Video On Demand (VOD) for the cable market with customers such as Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, Adelphia and Time Warner. Formed a global OEM partnership (GOPA) with.

CA

Took the Internetworking division of public company (Retix) private in January 1998, filed for IPO in Q1 2000 with JP Morgan and sold to Nortel Networks in October 2000 for $550M. Changed company position from enterprise equipment to focus exclusively on broadband access market for telecom service providers. Distribution deals with Nortel Networks.

Executive of 60-year old, publicly-held, $800M supplier of wireless products and services. Vice President & General Manager, Network Products and Wireless Networks. Responsible for the Network Products (NP) division which supplied communications solutions to the IBM communications market. Lead the re-engineering of sales, marketing, technical support and.

Durham, NC, US

Founding team member of publicly held (IPO in 1992) supplier of networking solutions.Responsible for all corporate marketing activities including product management, engineering program management, technical marketing, marketing communications, telemarketing and corporate development (OEM Partnerships, M&A). Directed all planning and development activities.

Developed first 10 Mb/s Token Ring LAN at Proteon Associates for MIT Laboratory of Computer Science and first 100 Mb/s Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) system at Fibronics International.

Made European early-stage venture capital investments coupled with large strategic partners in US.

Divison Marketing Manager, repositioned ATE systems division for bench top to high-end mixed-signal production component test systems. ADI became a captive customer to leverage leading edge technology and financial benefits.