Management
George Schneer — President & CEO
From 1973 to 1988, George held several executive positions at Intel. As vice president and general manager of the Memory Components Division he was responsible for Intel’s nonvolatile memories, bubble memories, flash, EPLD, DRAM, and SRAM products. During this period, he also served as vice president and director of quality and reliability where he led the Continuous Quality Improvement effort for all Intel’s products. George was also a founding director of Sematech, the industry consortium, and represented Intel on Sematech’s board of directors. Previously he spent several years in research and development at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Kevin Rowett — CTO/COO
Kevin is an accomplished technologist and architect with extensive experience in both computing systems and networking ranging from servers and storage to VoIP switching and multi-Gigabit routing. He has demonstrated expertise in both software and hardware engineering. Kevin’s background spans companies from Force10 Networks and CacheFlow (now Blue Coat Systems), to Cisco Systems, Tandem, Boeing Corporation and IBM.
Dr. Steve Russell — Corporate Strategy Development
Dr. Russell has extensive entrepreneurial and management experience at several Fortune 500 companies. He has also founded a number of companies including Telseon, where he served as president; Equatorial Communications, which was sold to Continental Telephone; and Vitalink Communications, which went public in 1986. Dr. Russell was vice president of engineering for 3Com’s router division, and vice president and general manager of two divisions that manufacture network access equipment. Dr. Russell holds four patents.
Robert Ellison — Director of Sales, North America
Robert is a seasoned professional who has played a pivotal role in building and marketing network security solutions for multiple market segments. Robert joins GigaFin Networks from Intoto, Inc., an industry leading provider of embedded network security software, where he served in various Sales and Business Development roles. Prior to Intoto, Robert was an OEM Regional Sales Manager for SafeNet, Inc.
Peter Miles — Director of Sales, Asia-Pacific
Peter has over eight years of international sales and marketing experience in the networking industry. He successfully led the network communication sales team for Lanner Electronics in North America and EMEA. Peter was responsible for establishing Lanner’s European branch office and ran its operations in 2005. Prior to Lanner, Peter was the Senior Product Manager for Edimax Technology, where he launched and ran Edimax’s router, print server and gigabit switch product lines.
