Technology Innovators: Top 50

Airespace
Pat Calhoun
CTO
Calhoun heads technical development and strategy for the wireless LAN stalwart Airespace. His experience with wireless technologies is broad, including previous stints running the Sun Laboratories research project that created a prototype of next-generation core and radio access network (RAN) wireless network using IP only devices. And at US Robotics/3Com, Calhoun designed virtual LAN trunking protocol (VTP), a virtual router that became the first Internet VPN service deployed.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Developed an extension to the 802.11i specification called Proactive Key Caching (PKC). PKC takes advantage of next-generation hierarchical WLAN systems and eliminates the need to re-authenticate at every access-point hand-off in a wireless network, thereby improving roaming and performance.
% of products less than 2 years old: 100%

Enterasys Networks'
John Roese
CTO
Roese oversees development of the company's technology architectures, including comprehensive quality of service, security, management and transport services. He also leads the company's initiatives in the Internet2/NGI effort and coordinates Enterasys' intellectual property portfolio. Prior to becoming CTO, Roese held a variety of positions at Cabletron Systems.
Top technology innovation in 2004: The complete refresh of the Enterasys product line and placing strategic focus on Secure Networks, which takes what was a core design principle of Enterasys products to date -- flow-based networking -- and extends it to the company's wired/wireless infrastructure products.
% of products less than 2 years old: Approximately 50%

Emulex
Greg Scherer
Senior Vice President And CTO
Scherer has more than 24 years experience in the computer industry, the past 20 of which have been in various roles at Emulex. He has been instrumental in the development of Emulex's LightPulse family of Fibre Channel PCI host bus adapters.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Creation of 4-Gb Fibre Channel infrastructure. Emulex was first to introduce a 4-Gb Fibre Channel embedded switch (SOC 422) and has been working on HBA/embedded I/O controller technology to complement the 4-Gb space.
% of products less than 2 years old: 75%

Fortinet'
Michael Xie
CTO
Xie, who has 10 years of experience in network security, is also founder and vice president of engineering for Fortinet. Previously he served as vice president of engineering for ServGate, software director and architect at NetScreen, and security architect for Milkyway. He holds multiple U.S. patents. Top technology innovation in 2004: In 2004, Fortinet introduced the latest version of FortiOS operating system. It includes more than 50 new technology enhancements, most notably the addition of Dynamic Attack Protection, which combines intrusion detection/prevention (IDP) with antivirus and firewall functions.
% of products less than 2 years old: 60%

Legato Software'
George J. Symons
CTO
Symons is responsible for product strategy, technical direction and technology acquisition. He joined Legato in April 1999 after Legato acquired FullTime Software, where he served as vice president of engineering.

Maximizer Software
Tom Bennett
Co-President And CTO
Bennett sets technology direction and oversees product management, research and development, quality assurance, customer support and services groups and projects at Maximizer Software. He has more than 15 years of software development experience and was one of original developers of Maximizer's contact management product.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Release of Maximizer Enterprise 8, an affordable CRM solution that helps small and midsize businesses succeed with an integrated suite of software tools for sales, marketing, and customer service and support.
% of products less than 2 years old: 100%

Mitel Networks
' Jim Davies
CTO
Davies is a driving force behind the strategic direction of Mitel's IP telephony solutions portfolio. Appointed as CTO in 2003, he brings a working history rich in R&D and business experience within telecommunications. Prior to Mitel Networks Jim worked nine years in R&D roles at Nortel Networks where he acquired broad product development experience in hardware, ASIC, embedded software and applications.
Top technology innovation in 2004: The company has worked on reducing the complexity of VoIP for VARs by simplifying the process of installation, diagnostics, maintenance and application integration with the IP system.
% of products less than 2 years old: 40%

N-able Technologies
' Louis Payant
CTO
As former vice president and general manager of Nokia, Payant brings a wealth of experience in the areas of mobile technology, product and software development, and product marketing of enterprise business solutions. At Nokia, Payant led the complete product-creation process, including product management, research and development, quality control, product marketing, documentation and training. Top technology innovation in 2004: The creation of the Security Event Manager represents N-able's flagship innovation for 2004. It enables VARs to create custom monitoring services on leading third party security appliances and deliver event correlation between various services.
% of products less than 2 years old: 100%

Netgear
Mark Merrill
CTO
Merrill co-founded Netgear in 1996 and is responsible for developing the company's technology strategy. He has more than 20 years of experience in the design and manufacturing of electronic products. Previously, he held positions at SynOptics Communications, a local area networking company that later merged with Wellfleet and became Bay Networks.
Top technology innovation in 2004: The introduction of Netgear's Gigabit Smart Switch, which integrates a Web-based GUI for configuration and monitoring of a network device that significantly lowers cost.
% of products less than 2 years old: 90%

NetSuite
Evan Goldberg
CTO
Goldberg spent eight years at Oracle as vice president, where he played a role in a variety of projects focused on making powerful database technology more accessible to users. When he left Oracle, he started mBED Software and built groundbreaking Web site technology. He founded NetSuite in 1998.
Top technology innovation in 2004: Delivering the first integrated business application for small and [midsize] businesses that allows companies to sell more by mining customer purchasing information.
% of products less than 2 years old: 25%

Nortel Networks'
D.G. Mumford
CTO
Since 1971, Mumford has enjoyed a varied and successful career with Nortel Networks. He has led the product development and design teams for Nortel Networks' Fiber Optics product line and product management for the DMS product line during the '80s. He played leadership roles in Nortel's expansion into optical networking and development of its 10-Gbps and DWDM products.

Seagate Technology'
Mark Kryder
Senior Vice President and CTO
Kryder joined Seagate as senior vice president of research in 1998 and built Seagate Research into the leading industrial research laboratory in the field of data-storage technology. Prior to coming to Seagate, Kryder was a founding director of the Data Storage Systems Center at Carnegie Mellon University and was a member of the research staff at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Top technology innovation in 2004: The demonstration of world-record areal densities near 200 Gbps in magnetic recording. % of products less than 2 years old: Within six months, more than 80% of products will be new.