NaaS + Zayo’s Fiber? Unstoppable!
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It’s funny where our passions take us. My passion has always been looking ahead at what’s next in networking technology to help improve our lives. No matter how we connect and communicate today, I can’t help but wonder about tomorrow.
I come to Zayo Group having partnered with like-minded visionaries to establish and build successful networking technology companies, pioneer the network-as-a-service (NaaS) movement, and merge common visions among companies through corporate acquisitions.?
Now, I’m thrilled to be the new Senior Vice President of Packet and Product Software Engineering at Zayo Group , and I can’t wait to realize Zayo’s mission – to connect what’s next – to build tomorrow’s networking.?
From Fighting the Russian Mafia to Founding Companies to Product Leadership at Zayo
First, a little bit more about the journey that led me to Zayo. In 2003, when the Internet was still in its youth and largely unregulated and unprotected, I was part of the team that founded Prolexic Technologies, the first commercial DDoS Protection service. We thwarted DDoS attacks from bad actors like the Russian mafia and worked with the FBI to profile cyber criminals – to name a few notable accomplishments. Prolexic was eventually acquired by Akamai in 2014.?
Following Prolexic Technologies , I led the security product team at Terremark European Partner Network , a data center, disaster recovery, and cloud computing?company?acquired by Verizon in 2011. From there, I led engineering at 6connect ,?a company that helped enterprises and ISPs automate transactional and provisioning activity...
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