iControl Board of Directors
Robert (Bob) Hagerty - Director
Bob is the Chief Executive Officer for iControl Networks. Prior to iControl, Bob was the Chief Executive Officer for Polycom where he delivered 50 sequential quarters of non-gap profit and 49 sequential quarters of positive operating cash flow. Bob grew the business from a speakerphone company to a market-maker in the communications industry with a broad range of collaboration tools, including telepresence, VoIP, video, and voice solutions. He increased revenue from $37 million to $1.1 billion through organic growth and 11key acquisitions—including Voyant Technologies, ViaVideo, Accord Networks, PictureTel, MeetU, ASPI, and Circa –Communications— to build the largest collaborative communications company in the industry.
Early in his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, Bob managed many of the best selling product lines, including mini-computers and workstations. From there, he joined Signal Corporation as a key executive in its broadcast equipment division. He played a significant role in the turnaround of the company, the expansion of tape recorders to broadcast solutions, and in driving the industry transition from analog to digital. After that, Bob joined Conner Peripherals as an early executive and helped grow the computer disk drive business from $180 million in 1987 to $2.2 billion in annual revenue in 1991. After only three years of sales, Conner was highlighted as one of the fastest growing companies to ever be named to the Fortune 500. Bob later joined Logitech, Inc., as a top executive, where he helped to transform the company as the computer market became mainstream, by expanding Logitech’s product lines from mice and scanners to webcams, computer cameras, computer gaming devices and multi-media upgrade products.
Bob holds a bachelor of science degree in operations research and industrial engineering from the University of Massachusetts, and a masters degree in management from St. Mary's College of California. In addition to his Polycom board membership, Bob served on the board of directors for Palm, Inc. and Modulus, Inc. He currently serves on the boards of Smart Technologies, Inc. and Plantronics, Inc.
James (Jim) Johnson - Chairman
Jim co-founded uControl, which merged with iControl in 2010, and acts as the company's co-CEO. Most recently, he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Service Provider Business Unit of TippingPoint, which was acquired by 3Com in February 2005.
Prior to TippingPoint, Jim was Vice President of Sales at BroadJump, which was acquired by Motive Communications in February 2003. Prior to BroadJump, he served as National Sales Manager for Cisco Systems' ADSL portfolio. Before Cisco's acquisition of NetSpeed, he served as the Director of North American Telco Sales for NetSpeed. Prior to NetSpeed, Jim held both domestic and international assignments with Alcatel Telecom in sales, product planning, product management and research and development.
Jim also serves on the Board of Directors for Boundless Network and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University.
Paul Dawes - Director
Paul has been in the technology industry for 20 years creating, managing, and selling high-tech products and services. He has led sales teams in the broadband, enterprise and entertainment markets, and driven product management for both embedded systems and enterprise. Most recently, Paul was a partner at Lockwood Capital, a technology investment team led by David Lockwood (responsible for the Intertrust restructuring and eventual acquisition by Sony and Philips) where he held the role of Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing for Liberate Technologies and helped drive the sale of Liberate to Comcast and Cox. Paul also led the sales team that closed deals with the largest US cable operators, enabling Liberate's 1999 IPO.
Prior to Liberate, Paul was Vice President, Sales & Marketing for VerdiSoft Corp., a mobile software provider acquired by Yahoo and has since become the foundation of Yahoo's Connected Life division. Earlier, Paul held product marketing and business development roles at Gain Technologies, Tom Siebel's multimedia software company that was sold to Sybase in 1997. Paul started his career in software engineering, product marketing and sales at Integrated Systems, Inc., an embedded systems company that went public in 1990.
Paul holds a BSME degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MSME from Stanford University.
John Doerr - Director
John Doerr is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers where he and his fellow partners have backed many of America's best entrepreneurial leaders, including the founders of Google, Amazon, Intuit, Sun, Compaq, Cypress, Macromedia and Symantec. In 1974 John joined a small chipmaker, Intel, just as they invented the legendary 8080 microprocessor. He worked in engineering, marketing and became a top-ranked sales executive. John joined KPCB in 1980, where soon after his arrival he served as founding CEO of Silicon Compilers, a VLSI CAD software company, and co-founder of @Home, the first broadband cable Internet service.
John is a techie and inventor, holding patents for computer memory devices. He earned a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
M. Brian McCarthy - Director
Brian is currently Executive Chairman of Trax Technologies, a global SaaS provider of freight payment reconciliation services, serves on a number of public and private boards and is an adjunct professor at the WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. Brian was most recently Executive Chairman of 180 Connect which went public and was then acquired by DirecTV and held the position of President of the Enterprise Systems Division of General Electric which was created by the acquisition of Interlogix, Inc. Brian played a pivotal role in positioning, taking public and growing Interlogix, Inc to a highly profitable $750 million enterprise which grew to $2.5 billion after its acquisition by GE in 2002.
Prior to GE Interlogix, Brian was Senior Executive Vice President for ADT Security Systems where, for over 15 years, he held progressively senior positions including Senior Vice President of Marketing and Chief Strategy Officer.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree from Queen's University and a Master of Science degree in Systems Design Engineering from the graduate school of engineering at the University of Waterloo, both in Ontario, Canada.
Kip McClanahan - Director
Kip's career spans nearly twenty years across the security, networking, communications and software industries. He has served as both CEO and board member to public and private companies leading all functional areas including strategy, operations, product, sales and marketing, as well as M&A deal structuring.
Most recently, Kip founded ON Networks, an Austin, Texas-based new media company optimized around the current disruption in the media and advertising industries. Prior to that, Kip ran 3Com's Security Division after 3Com's acquisition of TippingPoint Technologies. Prior to joining TippingPoint Technologies as CEO, Kip was at Motive, Inc., where he served as President and oversaw a broad range of business operations including product strategy after Motive acquired BroadJump. Kip was Founder, President and CEO of BroadJump, Inc., a privately held broadband software company based in Austin, Texas, was a part of management at NetSpeed and held engineering and managerial roles at Motorola, Thomas-Conrad, BMC Software and Dell Computer.
Kip also serves on the Board of Directors for SocialWare and Sparefoot and serves as a mentor for Capital Factory. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Bruce Sachs - Director
A general partner with Charles River Ventures, Bruce Sachs joined the firm in the fall of 1999 with 20 years experience in the telecommunications, networking, Internet, and computing industries.
Bruce is a director of several private and public companies, including BigBand Networks, Celerica, Cedar Point Communications, Acopia Networks and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRTX). Previously, Bruce served on the boards of American Internet (acquired by Cisco Systems), C-Port (acquired by Motorola), Arrowpoint (Nasdaq:ARPT) and Media 100 (Nasdaq:MDEA). Bruce led Charles River investments in Flarion Technologies (acquired by QUALCOMM), River Delta Networks (acquired by Motorola), and Hammerhead Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), and served on all three boards. Prior to joining Charles River Ventures, Bruce served as executive vice president and general manager of Ascend's (now Lucent Technologies, Nasdaq:LU) Carrier Signaling and Management Group. Bruce joined Ascend in October 1998 through its acquisition of Stratus Computer. At Stratus he served as president and CEO, repositioning the company through the integration of telecom software and services onto its traditional computing foundation.
Bruce holds a master of engineering in electrical engineering from Cornell University, an MBA from Northeastern University and a BS in electrical engineering from Bucknell University.
Stephan Segouin - Director
Stephan is Vice President, Corporate Development at NextEra Energy, the fourth largest power company in the U.S. and, with 8,000 MW of wind and solar generation capacity, the U.S. leader in renewable generation. As head of corporate development and a NextEra Energy corporate officer, Stephan is responsible for three main areas at NextEra Energy: Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Strategy and Alternative Investments. Since joining NextEra Energy in 2005, Stephan has completed a variety of transactions ranging from asset acquisitions to venture capital investments in the power and technology sectors. During the same period, Stephan was also responsible for defining NextEra Energy's strategy on energy efficiency, smart metering infrastructure and solar generation. Stephan reports to Jim Robo, President and Chief Operating Officer of NextEra Energy.
Before joining NExtEra Energy, Stephan worked in the same capacity at Exelon Corporation, where he sourced and executed the $17 billion merger with PSE&G. Before joining Exelon in 2004, Stephan was a Senior Vice President in Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers' Global Utility and Power Group and was an associate in Investment Banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. covering the power sector.
Stephan received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1997.
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