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Leadership
Michael Pisterzi
President & CEO
Mike Pisterzi heads the ADAPTIX team with more than 24 years of
leadership in the telecom/datacom industry. Prior to joining
ADAPTIX, Pisterzi served as the CEO for Transat Technologies Inc.,
a leader in the emerging market for secure mobile networking
infrastructure. He has also served as the CEO of Photuris Inc.,
a pioneer in the high-density optical switching market. Before
Photuris, Pisterzi’s first venture-backed effort was with AccessLan
Communications, where, as CEO, he successfully led the company
through acquisition by Advanced Fibre Communications Inc. (AFC),
now part of Tellabs. As the COO for Alcatel USA, Pisterzi played
a vital role in building a $4 billion business in access, transport,
switching and software product lines. He joined Alcatel as a
result of its acquisition of DSC, where he had served as a senior
executive. Prior to Alcatel/DSC, Pisterzi helped plan, define and
sell digital loop carrier systems and SONET ADMs at Fujitsu. In
addition, he has been granted numerous patents in the telecom field.
Timothy E. Montgomery
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
In his role as CFO, Tim Montgomery draws on his more than 20 years
of experience in global corporate finance and strategic business
planning to set ADAPTIX’s strategic financial direction. He also is
responsible for global financial management, control, reporting,
planning, investor relations, facilities, legal, IT and
administrative resources management. Prior to joining ADAPTIX,
Montgomery served as the CFO at Photuris Inc., a provider of
ROADM-based DWDM optical ADM systems (acquired by Mahi Networks,
now Meriton Networks). Before Photuris, he served as the CFO at
AccessLan Communications Inc. (acquired by AFC, now Tellabs).
Montgomery also has served as the Group CFO for the Systems
Management Group at Sterling Software (acquired by Computer
Associates). In addition, he has served in several senior financial
roles, including vice president of corporate finance, vice
president of the Access Products Group, vice president of the
Transmission Products Group and senior director of international
finance – all during his 10 years at Alcatel/DSC.
Byron C. Young
Vice President, Marketing & Product Management
As the Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, Byron
Young is responsible for market strategy, product planning and
industry relations for ADAPTIX. In his more than 20 years in the
telecom and datacom industries, Young served as the vice president
of marketing for Transat Technologies. There, he led the company’s
strategic planning and product management functions. Prior to
Transat, Young served as the vice president of product line
management for AFC (now Tellabs), where he led AFC’s entry into the
fast-growing IPTV-based Telco TV market with the Telliant IP access
platform. Young became a part of AFC after the acquisition of
AccessLan Communications, where he served as the vice president of
marketing and sales. At AccessLan, he spearheaded the product and
market strategy for what became the AFC Telliant family, one of the
first IP-DSLAMs to be deployed for next-generation IPTV services.
Young has also held director and senior management positions in
marketing and engineering at Cabletron Systems (ZeitNet), NET
(Adaptive), Siemens, IBM and ROLM.
Nicholas S. Thomas
Vice President of Global Sales & Service
As the vice president of global sales and service, Nick Thomas is
responsible for all of ADAPTIX’s global sales activities. Prior
to joining the ADAPTIX team, Thomas served as the vice president
of international sales at Covaro Networks (acquired by ADVA Optical
Networking). Prior to Covaro, he held executive level sales and
business development positions at Transat Technologies, NET, Raze
Technologies and Ennovate Networks. Thomas has also served as the
director of RBOC/IXC sales at Xylan (now Alcatel) and spent eight
years at DSC (now Alcatel), where he was responsible for opening
the Latin American and Asia Pacific markets. Thomas gained
additional experience as product marketing manager at Plessey
Semiconductors and as regional sales manager for the Middle East
and Africa at STC Telecommunications (now Nortel). In addition,
he is a member of the IEEE and the IEE.
Hui Liu, PhD
Chief Technical Advisor
Dr. Hui Liu is responsible for the strategic direction and guidance
for technology and product development. He brings years of study in
broadband wireless networks, array signal processing, DSP and VLSI
applications and multimedia signal processing to his role as chief
technical advisor for ADAPTIX. Prior to joining the company, Liu
served as the chief scientist at Cwill Telecommunications Inc. and
was one of the principal developers of the TD-SCDMA technologies. He
founded Broadstorm Inc. in 2000 and was responsible for the overall
architecture of the company’s innovative OFDMA mobile broadband
Internet solution. Liu also currently serves as an associate professor
for the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of
Washington, Seattle, and holds 16 patents. In addition, Liu has 40
published journal articles as well as two books – "OFDM-based
Broadband Wireless Networks – Design and Optimization" and "Signal
Processing Applications in CDMA Communications." Liu also is active
in several technical groups such as the IEEE Communications Society.
He has received a number of awards, including the 1997 National
Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the ONR Young Investigator
Award, and The Best Patent Award in China.
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