Neterion | Company | Management Team

	Patrick DiPietro President and Chief Executive Officer Pat joined VenGrowth in 2001, and has more than 29 years of experience in high technology. Pat serves as a member of the board of directors of several VenGrowth investees, including Neterion (chairman), BelAir Networks, SiGe Semiconductor Inc., BTI Systems, Liquid Computing Corporation, Nakina Systems Inc. and is a former board member of Sandvine Inc., now a public company. Before joining VenGrowth, Pat was a Vice President of 3G Wireless Systems at Nortel Networks. He previously occupied senior managerial roles in R&D and operations within Nortel and BNR. Pat has been responsible for product development and operations across wireless, optical, switching, and enterprise sectors and has launched several highly successful network products. Pat was also a founder of The Ottawa Network and a board member of OCRI, two non-for-profits focused on enabling the growth of local tech firms. Pat holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University. back to top

	Jon Belcher Vice President of Sales and Marketing Jon has more than 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. back to top

	David Brown Vice President of Engineering & General Manager David Brown brings to Neterion over 20 years of general, R&D, and engineering management expertise in both dynamic start-up environments and large organizations. David�s extended background includes engineering leadership in numerous businesses in the semiconductor, systems and software industries. David spent most of this decade in leadership roles at early-stage technology companies, LoBenn and MKC Networks. He has also held leadership roles over large engineering teams as General Manager at Cadence and CEO at West End Systems. He spent the bulk of his early career in semiconductor design and processing, moving up the engineering ranks during Mitel's growth phase, ultimately leading the entire IC development team. Among his many accomplishments, David was instrumental in shaping, redefining and ensuring the continued success of LoBenn, Inc. by securing required funding and leading the efforts to gain ULC approval of its products for sale to GE. His efforts with early-stage start-ups Mitel Knowledge and MKC Networks led to a successful acquisition by NewHeights Software. And, he successfully grew revenues for the Canadian division of Cadence Design Services from $3M to $17M and grew margins from significantly negative to greater than 40%. In the R&D arena, David demonstrated highly-effective strategic planning capabilities by improving investment-return on new product development that resulted in pre-tax profits growing to over 20% of sales and he reduced the cost of production that resulted in gross margins increasing from less than 40% to more than 60%. He is responsible for all Ottawa-based engineering functions including chip design, verification and firmware for existing and new products and serves as the General Manager of the Ottawa site. David received his education at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Alberta with the Electronics Engineering Technologist Program. back to top

	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. back to top

	Greg Scherer Chief Technology Officer 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. back to top

	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. back to top

	Lee Shepherd Vice President of Product Architecture 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. back to top

	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. back to top

	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. back to top