Advisory Board
Jun Shao Ph.D.
CIO and Founder, F7 Systems
Jun Shao leads the architecture and technical direction of the F7's system software. He is an industry veteran, bringing 18 years of professional experience in scalable systems and networking to the F7 team.
Prior to founding F7 systems, Mr. Shao was principal engineer at Foundry Networks where he concentrated on wide-area transport performance and helped redesign the company's world-wide live streaming network. Mr. Shao was an early employee with the CTO's office at Extreme networks, a pioneer in high-performance IP networks Inc., focusing on performance and architecture. Prior to Extreme networks, he was a senior staff engineer at cisco systems where he worked on Layer 4-7 networks on research center application layer .
Mr. Shao spent five years researching multi-processor system and software architectures at Stanford University after earning his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the university. Many of Mr. Jun Shao findings and developments have been published in various industry and technical journals over the last decade.
George Varghese Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego
Professor George Varghese's research aims at making the Internet as fast and reliable as electric and telephone utilities. Mr. Varghese is one of 15 ACM fellows in networking worldwide.
Dr. Varghese co-founded and was President & CTO of NetSift, a content processing technology based on high-speed networking and security that was acquired by Cisco. In 1996, he was one of only two computer scientists awarded the ONR Young Investigator award. For ten years, he was a researcher and Principal Engineer at DECNET where he worked on a precursor to the gigabit Ethernet, and helped write and design specifications for DEC's Bridge Architecture, later adopted as an IEEE standard.
Dr. Varghese has been awarded 14 patents in the general field of Internet Algorithmics. An efficient IP lookup technique is licensed by more than eight companies, including Microsoft. His scheduling algorithm, called DRR, is found in many infrastructure routers, including Cisco's GSR. Together with Tony Li, Bill Lynch, Sharad Mehrotra, John Holst and other members of the engineering team,
Dr. Varghese designed the forwarding engine for the Procket Router, which - running at 40 gigabits per second - was the world's fastest at the end of 2003.
Dr. Varghese received his Ph.D. in computer science at MIT in 1993.
Edward J. Zander
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Motorola, Inc.
Mr. Edward J. Zander is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Motorola, Inc.
Since joining Motorola he has successfully reorganized the company, overseen the introduction of several exciting new products and sharpened Motorola's focus on innovation and operational efficiency.
Prior to joining Motorola, Mr. Zander served as president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems. During his tenure, Mr. Zander grew Sun to $18 billion in revenues, established it as the number-one company in the server market and built it into the pre-eminent supplier of network infrastructure.
Mr. Zander holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Boston University.
