Jeff Reedy

Current

• President & CEO at Overture Networks

Past

• VP Engineering at Larscom
• VP of Engineering at T3 Technologies
• Director of Engineering / Mgr of Advanced Technology at FiberLAN

• Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories

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Education

• Stanford University
• Duke University

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Industry

Telecommunications

Jeff Reedy’s Summary

26-year veteran of datacom and telecom industry. Successful entrepreneur that has built and led first-class teams that provided market leading solutions for a demanding customer base.

Jeff Reedy’s Specialties:

TECHNOLOGY: Data networking for telecom, wireless and enterprise networks; packet and circuit switching and transport, software and hardware design.

BUSINESS: All aspects of organization building and financing from startup to aquistions and IPO. Enjoy building relationships with customers and partners and leading teams on successful growth paths.

Jeff Reedy’s Experience

• President & CEO

  Overture Networks

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  September 2000 — Present (8 years 2 months)

  Co-founder of company that has developed a packet-based multi-service access platform that allows carriers to offer new Ethernet-based services and transition from current infrastructure to IP/MPLS architecture.

• VP Engineering

  Larscom

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  November 1991 — September 2000 (8 years 11 months)

  Led development of broad range of networking products based on TDM, ATM, Ethernet, Frame Relay, bridging and routing for customer premise and Central Office. Products installed in several large networks at MCI, UUNet,AT&T, BellSouth, Telus, Telia, etc.

• VP of Engineering

  T3 Technologies

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  September 1988 — November 1991 (3 years 3 months)

  Co-founder of company that developed high-speed networking equipment that was sold to Larscom in 1991. Developed network access unit for T3 backbone of NSFnet. Developed patent on NxT1 inverse multiplexing that became basis of Larscom's popular Mega-T and Orion 4000.

• Director of Engineering / Mgr of Advanced Technology

  FiberLAN

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  January 1984 — September 1988 (4 years 9 months)

  Developed first-generation products for local and metro fiber networking (TDM, Ethernet, Token Ring).

• Member of Technical Staff

  Bell Laboratories

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Networking industry)

  May 1980 — January 1984 (3 years 9 months)

  Developed ASICs and hardware for high-speed packet switching platform.

Jeff Reedy’s Education

• Stanford University

  MSEE, Electrical Engineering, 1980 — 1981

• Duke University

  BSE, Electrical Engineering, 1977 — 1980