Jack Bradley joined Packet Design in March of 2003 and has over 20 years of executive management experience at high technology companies including positions as General Manager of the International Division of 3Com, CEO of Network Computing Devices, and Director of the Video Services Business Unit at Cisco. In addition, Bradley has held CFO positions at Precept Software, Blaze Software, NCD and Bridge Communications. Bradley has a BS degree in Finance from the University of San Francisco.
Jeff Raice
Executive Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
joined Packet Design in March of 2003 and brings over 20 years of sales and marketing management experience in emerging technology companies. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Vice President of World Wide Sales at Precept Software, a video networking company which was acquired by Cisco Systems. Raice was also Vice President of Marketing at NCD and held a variety of sales and marketing management positions at Sun Microsystems, Daisy Systems and Hewlett-Packard. Raice has a BSEE degree from Cornell University.
Steve Ackley
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations
Steve Ackley
joined Packet Design in December 2006 from MonoSphere, a Redwood City, Calif., storage capacity planning software company, where he had been Vice President of World Wide Sales. Previously he had been Vice President of World Wide Sales at Satmetrix Systems, a provider of on-demand software and consulting services for improving customer loyalty. Ackley also has served as Vice President of World Wide Sales at Vicinity Corp. (acquired by Microsoft) and Regional Vice President of Sales at Marimba (acquired by BMC), and has held sales management positions with Tivoli Systems (IBM) and Sun Microsystems. He holds a J.D. degree from Santa Clara University School of Law and a B.S. from San Diego State University School of Business.
Cengiz Alaettinoglu is a senior and founding member of Packet Design’s technical staff since the company’s formation in 2003. Previously he was with the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, where he worked on the Routing Arbiter project. He was co-chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Routing Policy System Working Group, and has lectured and published widely at industry technical conferences and workshops. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara MS and PhD in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park
Costas Bassias
joined Packet Design in June of 2006 from C-COR, Inc., where, as Platform Director, he was responsible for engineering and product line management of the company's flow-networking products. Previously he had been Vice President of Engineering at wireless router vendor Chantry Networks; and Vice President of Engineering at Lantern Communications, maker of switches for metropolitan-area networks. He has also held senior engineering and engineering management positions with Motorola, Memotec Communications, Nortel Networks and Lockheed-Martin Canada.
Alex Henthorn-Iwane
joined Packet Design in September 2004 and brings 22 years of systems engineering, product management and marketing experience in network infrastructure, management and security technologies and products. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at CoSine Communications, a maker of virtualized edge routing and security infrastructure equipment for the Service Provider market. Previously, Henthorn-Iwane was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises (acquired by Lucent); and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Kim Dimick joined Packet Design in March of 2001 and brings over 25 years of technical management and services experience at data networking companies. Prior to Packet Design, he was Technical Marketing Manager of Cisco Systems Video Services Business Unit and Precept Software (acquired by Cisco). Previously he was Technical Marketing Manager for NCD, and held technical management positions at Bridge Communications and Larse Corporation.
Steve Ruddock joined Packet Design in September, 2005 and brings over 20 years of sales experience for leading networking and technology companies. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Sales Director for Northern Europe for NetScout Systems, a network and application performance management vendor. Previously, he was UK Sales Manager for corporate accounts at Nortel, and has held sales and sales management positions at HP, 3Com and Cabletron. Steve holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and MBA from the University of Bath.
Van Jacobson
Chief Scientist
Van Jacobson was previously Chief Scientist at Cisco Systems where he worked on cross company architectural efforts such as QoS and Voice Services. Prior to Cisco he had a distinguished career at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory as a group leader for the Network Research Group. Beginning with his seminal paper Congestion Avoidance and Control (SIGCOMM 88), Jacobson has authored dozens of papers and RFCs on his work in the areas of performance and scaling of IP networks. Jacobson also contributed many of the defacto tools currently used in the IP development community, including traceroute, pathchar, and tcpdump. While at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory he was one of the leaders in the development effort of the multicast backbone (MBone), and his group developed the first popular Internet multimedia tools (vic, vat, wb) laying the groundwork for many of the current commercial multicast applications. In 2001, Van was awarded the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM Award for his many years of creativity and commitment to data networking. In 2002, Van was awarded the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for major contributions to the understanding of network congestion, and the development of congestion control mechanisms, enabling the successful scaling of the Internet.
