Management

Greg Caltabiano

President and CEO

Greg Caltabiano joined Teknovus from his position as President & COO of SOMA Networks, where he was responsible for corporate strategy and management of all business and technical functions, including sales, marketing, engineering, and manufacturing. Mr. Caltabiano was instrumental in securing multimillion dollar carrier contracts worldwide. Prior to SOMA, he served as Division Vice President & General Manager for Comverse Asia, building and managing Comverse’s 15 sales and support offices and four R&D centers. Mr. Caltabiano also held technical and management positions at IBM Microelectronics and Honeywell/Data Instruments. He accumulated more than 14 years of work in Japan and China. Mr. Caltabiano received his BSEE/CS Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University’s School of Engineering and his MBA from Stanford University, where he received a FLAS Fellowship. Mr. Caltabiano also completed post graduate and executive education at the Inter-University Center in Japan and INSEAD in France.

Ed Boyd

CTO

Ed Boyd has more than 15 years in ASIC development for data and telecom networks. Prior to Teknovus, Mr. Boyd was Vice President of Advanced Technology in charge of ASIC development for Terawave, an optical access company. He has held key positions managing ASIC development at Advanced Fibre Communications and 3Com, successfully completing over 20 complex ASIC projects. Mr. Boyd holds numerous patents and has participated in the development of ITU-T and IEEE standards. He holds a BSEE from San Jose State University.

Dr. Glen Kramer

Chief Scientist

Dr. Glen Kramer has conducted extensive research in the areas of traffic management, quality of service, and fairness in access networks. His book, Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, has been published in English (McGraw-Hill, 2005) and Chinese (BUPT Press, 2007). Dr. Kramer chairs the IEEE P802.3av "10 Gb/s EPON" Task Force, and previously served as EPON protocol clause editor for the IEEE 802.3ah "Ethernet in the First Mile" Task Force. Prior to joining Teknovus, Dr. Kramer worked at the Advanced Technology Lab at Alloptic, where he was responsible for design and performance analysis of PON scheduling protocols. He also participated in prototyping the very first EPON system. Dr. Kramer received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis, where he was awarded an NSF Grant to study next-generation broadband access networks. Dr. Kramer has published and presented over 20 papers, and authored 11 patents.

Dr. Lowell Lamb, Ph.D.

Chief Strategy Officer

Dr. Lowell Lamb has more than 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Teknovus, Dr. Lamb was the Director of PON Networks at Terawave Communications, an optical access company. Earlier in his career, Dr. Lamb held positions at SBC Laboratories, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and was the Assistant Director of the Arizona Fullerene Consortium at The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Lamb holds a Ph.D. in experimental physics, and is the author of 18 publications and patents.

David Coakley

VP of Operations

David Coakley specializes in technology, manufacturing, and operations management. During his over 20 years experience in semiconductor companies he has successfully developed and implemented procedures for streamlining production, increasing yield capacities, and reducing cost of operations. Mr. Coakley most recently was the Vice President of Operations for Chip [X], where he executed the transition to a fabless manufacturing model and lowered operational costs for the company. At Readrite, he served as the Vice President of U.S. Wafer Fab Operations, implementing processes to increase line yields, add 30 percent fab capability, and reduce manufacturing cycle times by 40 percent. Mr. Coakley was the Vice President of Wafer Fab Operations for Xicor, where he successfully contributed to nearly two years of company profitability through yield and cost efficiencies. Beginning his career as a process engineer at National Semiconductor, he moved on to serve in management positions at Seeq Technology, Unisys, and MMI. While at MMI he developed the Silicon Shuttle and a hillock suppression process for aluminum. Mr. Coakley holds a BSc degree in physical electronics from Newcastle Polytechnic.

Julie Kunstler

VP of Business Development

Julie Kunstler brings to Teknovus more than 25 years in the high-tech and financial industries. She has worked with rapidly growing companies including Paychex and Intralinks, helping them forge strong business and financial success. Ms. Kunstler serves on the board of both privately-held and publicly-traded companies, providing international business development expertise that encompasses market expansion, business partnerships, strategic investments and liquidity events. Ms. Kunstler earned her Bachelors degree magna cum laude from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Tim Crosta

VP of Product Support

Tim Crosta has more than 20 years of experience in planning, sales, customer support and operations in the communications technology industry. Prior to joining Teknovus, Mr. Crosta was Vice President of Deployment Operations at SOMA Networks. He previously held senior management positions at Comverse Technologies, including Assistant Vice President and General Manager, Japan. In addition, Mr. Crosta served in several management positions with Verizon, in which he directed the operations and technical support teams. His current responsibilities at Teknovus include management of worldwide product support for the Teknovus solution. Mr. Crosta holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and an MBA from the Boston College Graduate School of Management.

Ryoji Takaichi

Japan General Manager and Corporate Vice President

Prior to Teknovus, Ryoji Takaichi served as Director, Operations for Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for sales to all service provider customers in Japan including NTT East/West/DoCoMo, KDDI, Yahoo-BB, and cable operators. Mr. Takaichi led the NGN architecture, deployment schedule and implementation requirements for NTT, as well as the Cisco team that built KDDI’s Hikari service backbone network. Before his six years with Cisco, Mr. Takaichi served as General Manager in the Corporate Planning Department at NTT Communications. He reported to NTT Communication’s President and led the incubation of several broadband services and businesses during his 20 years at NTT. Mr. Takaichi received his M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Scholarship, Electronics Engineering, from the University of Tokyo.

Mark (Weidong) Jiang

General Manager, China

Mark Jiang's career spans 15 years in senior sales and marketing positions with Teknovus, Broadcom, Vitesse and Cisco. His work has focused on Ethernet Access. He previously served as Senior Manager, Asia Pacific with Vitesse, leading the CPE Access and Ethernet Division. Mr. Jiang secured major design wins with the leading system vendors across Asia, including Huawei, H3Com, Sumitomo, Fiberhome, UTStarcom and NEC. Mr. Jiang was awarded his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta, majoring in VLSI. Mr. Jiang is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Insoo Park

VP of Strategic Sales

Insoo Park joined Teknovus from his position as Sales Director for Korea and North America Channel Business at Ikanos Communications, where he was responsible for all strategic sales and technical support for the Korean market and achieved 100% VDSL market share at all major Korean carriers. Mr. Park established Ikanos’ sales and account organizations throughout Asia and North America. Prior to Ikanos, he held product manager positions at Insight Korea, Memec Electronic Components. Mr. Park received his Bachelor’s Degree at Konkuk University, Seoul.

V. Christopher Moezzi

VP of Product Marketing

Chris Moezzi joined Teknovus from his position as VP of Marketing and Business Development at Faraday Technology Corporation. At Faraday he was responsible for setting the vision and strategy for the company’s Composer™ Structured ASIC Platform products, establishing the company as a premier ASIC provider worldwide in PCI Express, Ethernet, 10GbE and storage markets. While at Faraday, Mr. Moezzi formed the company’s Communications Business Unit (CBU), while securing key design wins with high profile semiconductor and system OEM vendors. Prior to Faraday, Mr. Moezzi founded Accela Microsystems, a consulting group focusing on Enterprise Networking and Optical Metro Ethernet SoC applications. Previously, Mr. Moezzi served as Senior Director of Product Management & Strategic Marketing for DSL products at Conexant (GlobespanVirata), where he developed and formed the RISC processor business and helped secure major design wins with top tier customers worldwide. At Globespan Mr. Moezzi successfully defined the requirements and marketing strategy for the company’s single-chip DSL Central Office Access NPU and Gateway System-on-chip (SoC) products. Prior to Conexant, Mr. Moezzi was Director of Product Management and Business Development for T-Sqware, a pioneer in Network Processor technology that was acquired by Globespan in 2000. Mr. Moezzi began his professional career in the U.S. at Lucent Technologies (Alcatel-Lucent) Optical Networking Business Unit with positions in Product Marketing and VLSI Engineering. He received his BSCE from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, his MSEE from Southern Methodist University, and his Executive MBA from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

Dave Malloy

VP of Engineering

Dave Malloy brings more than 25 years in senior software management to Teknovus, and has been a member of the founding teams of two successful “Telecom Valley” startups. Mr. Malloy previously served as VP Software for Dilithium, where his responsibilities included development of the end-to-end architecture of the advanced multimedia gateway, systems engineering and IMS design. Prior to Dilithium, he was responsible for release planning and project management at Next Level/Motorola. Prior to the acquisition by Motorola, he served as VP Software, managing multiple 3rd party relationship and broadband access projects. Earlier in his career, Mr. Malloy worked at Optilink/DSC Communications, Harris Digital Telephone Systems and Badger Meter. He holds B.A. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Mathematics from Oregon State University.