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Management Team
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Dave Zabrowski
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dave Zabrowski has over 22 years of technology experience in businesses encompassing computer servers, PCs, semiconductors, and optical systems. He joined Neterion (formerly S2io) in 2002 as the first CEO and has led the company to an undisputed leadership position in the emerging 10 Gigabit Ethernet I/O controller market. Key customer announcements include OEM relationships with IBM, HP, EMC, Hitachi and Sun.
Prior to Neterion, he spent 16 years with Hewlett Packard, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of HP's North American Business PC and server organization. In this role, he had P&L responsibility for a $2.5B business including standard server, PC and portable computing. Prior to this role, Dave held key General Management roles at HP for several early/emerging businesses including one which was spun out of the company with a $2B market valuation. Prior to HP, his laser diode research work at McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing, was published in the Journal of Applied Physics. Over his career, he has gained significant cross functional expertise in sales, marketing, R&D, and operations.
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from UCLA.
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Jon Belcher
Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Jon joined Neterion a year ago as Vice President of OEM Sales and has since proven himself a strong leader and has most recently accepted the position of Vice President of Worldwide Sales. He has over 15 years of sales and executive sales management expertise in both US and international markets from his experience with Fujitsu, Crossroads Systems, Quantum Corporation and Neterion. Jon's leadership spans international high-technology companies focused on the development of primary storage and networked storage solutions. He has expertise in building solid sales teams, winning new business and establishing long-term relationships with global technology firms.
Prior to joining Neterion in 2007, Jon spent three years at Quantum Corporation, where he oversaw worldwide OEM sales, realizing $350M of annual revenue, increasing Quantum's automation market share by 10% through new product awards and developing strong relationships with strategic customers, including Hewlett Packard, IBM, Dell and Sun Microsystems. Jon's leadership efforts at Quantum led to reducing sales OPEX by nearly $4M annually while simultaneously growing the automation business.
While at Fujitsu Computer Products of America, the largest overseas subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd, Belcher served as the Director of Global OEM Sales and was responsible for driving mobile, desktop and enterprise hard disk drive sales to Dell Computer Corporation. Belcher successfully grew the Dell account from being Fujitsu's number three mobile hard drive customer to number one.
Jon holds a Bachelor's degree in Marketing from the University of Arizona and served active duty in the United States Marine Corps.
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Ravi Chalaka
Vice President of Marketing
Ravi brings over 20 years of large and start-up company technology marketing expertise to Neterion from his experiences at NetApp, Adaptec and MaXXan Systems. He has established himself as a marketing leader and strategist in enterprise IT solutions, technologies and market trends. His broad range of experience has included product management, product marketing, channel marketing and strategic planning. He has served in roles that have strategically impacted business growth in the OEM and channel markets, new product introduction and alliance partnerships.
Amongst his many accomplishments, Ravi was instrumental in transforming NetApp's go-to-market strategy from marketing individual products to consolidated enterprise solutions. His efforts in marketing NetApp’s SAN solutions contributed to a 70% growth rate for the company in an established FC SAN and new iSCSI SAN market. While at Adaptec, Ravi was managing the company’s flagship SCSI and RAID products that contributed to over $400M in annual revenue and spearheaded the company’s entry into the external storage subsystem market. Throughout his career, Ravi has proven himself as a company champion and spokesperson in the storage industry.
Before joining Neterion, Ravi served as NetApp's Senior Director of Marketing for the Enterprise Data Center Solutions Group. Prior to NetApp, he served as Vice President of Marketing, at MaXXan Systems, San Jose, California that developed Intelligent SAN switches and storage gateway systems.
Ravi received an MBA in Marketing from Youngstown State University in Ohio. He also received an MBA in Management as well as his undergraduate degree in Commerce from the University of Madras, India.
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Leonid Grossman
Vice President of Software Engineering
Leonid has over 20 years of experience in networking software development and is one of the founders of Neterion, Inc., formerly S2io, Inc. He has worked for the last 16 years in Silicon Valley for Advanced Micro Devices, Alteon WebSystems, and Nortel Networks.
Prior to joining Neterion, as a software engineering manager with Alteon and Nortel-HPOCS, Leonid was responsible for software development for server and storage I/O products. In this role, Leonid defined the software design of these development activities and managed a team of local employees and offshore subcontractors.
Leonid holds 7 US software patents with additional applications pending. He has an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Moscow Petroleum University, an M.Sc in Computer Science from Moscow University of Physics, and an MBA from San Jose State University.
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Greg Scherer
Vice President Product Planning
Greg Scherer is the former CTO of Emulex and a technology industry veteran with almost thirty years of experience in engineering and business development. His diverse career includes contributions as both a technical team member and as a proven leader in bringing products to market. Formerly, Greg held the position of Sr. Vice President of Business Development at Emulex where he spent 24 years in a variety of increasingly important roles. His rich career background has enabled him to bridge the gap between technology specifications and emerging customer needs. During his tenure at Emulex he was instrumental in driving multiple leadership positions in Networking and Storage market segments.
For two decades Greg contributed to the development of ASIC, firmware, hardware and software, and worked closely with server and storage vendors to meet user demand in their rapidly expanding markets. He played a key collaborative role in defining many of the initial Fibre Channel specifications and later worked closely with technology partners (OS, switch and bridge vendors) to solidify the early technology and its specifications. He was also instrumental in the development and deployment of Emulex's LighPulse ?line of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, that launched the company into a multi-billion dollar market cap with over $400M in annual revenue.
Greg is the inventor of Emulex's ground breaking host software/driver architecture, called SLI, which has been deployed on millions of installed FC HBAs to date. This architecture allowed Emulex and its partners to maintain a single binary compatible driver that has spanned eight generations of FC HBAs.
In his role of Sr. Vice President of Business Development, Greg owned the technical investigation and diligence arm for Emulex's investment and acquisition strategy. This has given him a unique perspective on technology and teams, having evaluated well over 100 emerging stage companies over the past decade.
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Terri Fields Scheufele
Vice President of Operations
Terri has more than ten years of high tech experience most recently serving as the Director of Operations for Hewlett Packard's PC Organization. In this role, Terri was a key leader for the North America supply chain operations, directly responsible for PC operations including newly merged PC supply chains with contract manufacturers, supplier hubs, logistics providers and finishing services providers.
Terri also has extensive experience in the areas of supply chain planning, order management, procurement and supplier management.
Terri graduated from Hewlett-Packard's prestigious Accelerated Leadership Program. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland and holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
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Lee Shepherd
Chief Technology Officer
Lee has 10 years of experience in the telecom and datacom businesses previously with Nortel Networks. He has R&D experience in ASIC and FPGA design and verification (digital and analog), high speed and RF printed circuit board and backplane design, optical link budget design, firmware design, mechanical design, power system design, thermal design, IP/Ethernet and IP/POS switch router system architecture, SONET, SDH, Ethernet interface architecture, and TCP/IP/Ethernet server and storage I/O architecture. He has related experience in technical due diligence (supporting M&A activities), IP licensing contracts, technology acquisition, market analysis, and technical marketing.
Most recently with Nortel-HPOCS, Lee was the system architect of the Server and Storage I/O Solutions group, and was responsible for defining product architecture and overseeing the technical activities of a 30 person ASIC and PCB design staff. In this role, he was also responsible for technical customer interaction, technical market analysis, and technology acquisition.
Lee has a B.Sc.H. in Physics from Carleton University (Ottawa-Carleton Physics Institute), and a Technologist Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Georgian College.
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Dennis Shwed
Vice President of Hardware Engineering
Dennis has over 20 years of experience in hardware and ASIC R&D. He was with Nortel Networks for 16 years and spent the last 10 years in team leader and management roles. Dennis has extensive experience in all areas of ASIC design and manufacturing including high-level design, test circuitry methodology and implementation, design tool selection, floor planning, physical layout, I/O design and characterization, staffing and team organization, project budgeting and scheduling, vendor selection, and subcontractor procurement.
In his most recent position as Senior Manager, ASIC Development at Nortel Networks, he managed a team of 45, located in two geographical locations, developing integrated circuits, PCBs and drivers for the Nortel-HPOCS Server and Storage I/O Solutions team.
Dennis holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Carleton University.
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Ray Wallin
Chief Financial Officer
Ray has more than 30 years of experience in financial management at both private and public companies and has demonstrated the ability to build a sound financial infrastructure within a company.
He joins Neterion from Sipex Corporation, where he managed all financial, legal and SEC functions. While at Sipex, Wallin re-listed the company on the NASDAQ Capital Market and managed a multi-year restatement process, ultimately succeeding in selling the company to Exar Corporation for over $225 million.
Prior to Sipex, Wallin was the VP of Finance and CFO at iWatt, Inc., where he was responsible for managing all financial, legal, human resources, manufacturing, operations and financing activities. While at iWatt, he raised $14.5 million from major venture capitalists.
Wallin holds a MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a BS in Economics with Honors from the University of Oregon and is a CPA in the State of Illinois.
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