SpiderCloud Wireless
Board of Directors

 

Michael Gallagher, CEO, SpiderCloud Wireless

Mr. Gallagher brings over 25 years of telecommunications, networking, and wireless industry experience to the company. Before joining SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc. as chief executive officer in February of 2008, Mr. Gallagher was the chief executive officer of FiberTower, Inc., a company he joined via the merger with First Avenue Networks in 2006 where Mike Gallagher was the chief executive officer. Mr. Gallagher was previously the president of Flarion Technologies, a company acquired by Qualcomm. At Flarion, Mr. Gallagher led the mobile broadband communication company’s day-to-day operational strategy, sales and marketing, and expansion into Europe and Asia. Before joining Flarion in March 2001, he was the senior vice president for worldwide sales and operations for Nortel Networks' IP Services business unit (formerly Shasta Networks acquired by Nortel in April 1999). Prior to Shasta Networks, Mr. Gallagher led Bay Networks’ North American sales operations. At Bay Networks, he had profit and loss responsibilities for an organization of 1,500 people with annual revenues of more than $1.5 billion. Bay Networks was acquired by Nortel in September 1998. Before Bay Networks, Mr. Gallagher held positions with Synoptics, AT&T and Network Equipment Technologies. He holds an MBA from Pace University and a bachelor’s degree in business from Fordham University.

 

 

Peter Wexler, Co-founder, SpiderCloud Wireless

Mr. Wexler is the co-founder of SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc. Mr. Wexler led the engineering team in the development of the initial system. Prior to SpiderCloud, Mr. Wexler was the vice president of engineering and product operations at Stoke, Inc., a Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital funded company. Prior to Stoke, Mr. Wexler was with Juniper Networks where he held the position of vice president of engineering. During his tenure at Juniper, he grew the engineering organization from 17 to 600 and helped lead the company from initial product through the delivery of multiple generations of high performance routers. Subsequently, he managed Juniper’s Mobile Business and was a director of the Ericsson–Juniper joint venture, J20 GGSN. Mr. Wexler has also held engineering and management positions at Bay Networks, Wellfleet Communications (which became Bay Networks though the merger with Synoptics), Xylogics and Siemens. Mr. Wexler has an MBA from Boston University, an MSE from the University of Illinois and a BSEE from SUNY Stonybrook.

 

Bruce Sachs

Mr. Sachs is a general partner with Charles River Ventures (CRV). Mr. Sachs joined CRV in 1999 and has 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, networking, Internet, and computing industries. Mr. Sachs specializes in the enterprise and service provider infrastructure sectors on behalf of CRV. Prior to CRV, Mr. Sachs served as an executive vice president and general manager at Ascend's (Lucent Technologies, now Alcatel-Lucent) Carrier Signaling, and Management Group. Mr. Sachs joined Ascend through its acquisition of Stratus Computer where he served as the president and chief executive officer. Previously, Mr. Sachs was executive vice President and general manager of the Internet/Telecom Business Unit at Bay Networks Inc. (which was later acquired by Nortel Networks). Mr. Sachs was previously at Xylogics as chief executive officer and president, a company acquired by Bay Networks. Prior to Xylogics, Mr. Sachs was the director of engineering at Memotec/Infinet. Mr. Sachs started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Mr. Sachs is a board member with SpiderCloud Wireless and has also served as a board member at Flarion Technologies Inc., Vanu Inc., BigBand Networks, Carrier IQ, Nantero, WaterCove Networks, Celerica, M2Z Networks, Cedar Point Communications, SnowShore Networks, Acopia Networks, iControl Networks, and Samplify Systems Inc. Mr. Sachs received an MBA from Northeastern University, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University.

 

Shirish Sathaye

Mr. Sathaye joined Matrix Partners in 2001. Mr. Sathaye works closely with entrepreneurs to assist them with developing and refining concepts and strategies and putting together strong teams. Mr. Sathaye’s first investment was Aruba Networks which Mr. Sathaye helped incubate in Matrix Partners’ Silicon Valley office during the last economic down turn. The company went public in March 2007. Before joining Matrix partners, Mr. Sathaye served as the vice president of engineering at Alteon, a company backed by Matrix Partners. Alteon was a successful Ethernet switch maker and provider of load-balance Web servers for Internet companies. The company went public in 1999 and was subsequently acquired by Nortel Networks in 2000 for $7.8 billion. Prior to Alteon, Mr. Sathaye worked at FORE Systems where he ran engineering for the ATM switch group. Previously, Mr. Sathaye held various networking ASICs and software positions with Digital Equipment Corporation for a total of eight years. Mr. Sathaye holds a B.S. degree from the Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India and a Master’s degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Sathaye received his Doctorate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.

  

Carl Showalter

Mr. Showalter is a founding partner of Opus Capital where he focuses on investing in Internet and data communications startups. Previously, Mr. Showalter was a General Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners. Prior to the venture capital world, Mr. Showalter served as Vice President of Marketing at Juniper Networks where he built and led a global marketing and product management organization. Prior to Juniper, Mr. Showalter was Vice President of Dial and Broadband Services for UUNET, overseeing the 300-person, $1B revenue division. Mr. Showalter has also held various sales and management positions at ANS, an AOL company, where Mr. Showalter helped build AOL's modem access network and launch hardware-based firewalls and IP VPNs. Mr. Showalter began his career at Bellcore, focusing on network security and data service delivery. At Bellcore, Mr. Showalter performed logical and physical attacks on phone company infrastructure, helping them fix these vulnerabilities. Mr. Showalter holds a B.S. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Master’s degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.