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Peter Allen, President & CEO
Brian McCormack, VP Sales
Erik Boch, Founder, CTO & VP Engineering
Dave Farrar, Founder & VP Operations
Dr. Alan Solheim, VP Product Management
Russell Frederick, VP Finance & CFO
DragonWave's executive team is comprised of industry professionals with an average of twenty years' experience in Telecommunications, Networking, Microwave and Millimeter wave technologies. Their combined skill and knowledge with worldwide trends in the dynamic telecommunications market enables DragonWave to maintain its leadership in the competitive broadband wireless access market.
Peter Allen, President & CEO
 Peter Allen brings 21 years of industry experience in Broadband Telecommunications. Prior to joining DragonWave, Peter was founder, President and CEO Innovance Networks. Prior to Innovance, Peter was the Vice-President of Business Development and General Manager of the Optoelectronics organization within Nortel Networks' Optical Networks division, where he had responsibilities for both the system and component businesses. Peter's experience in business leadership includes heading up a 5000-employee global operation spanning R&D, manufacturing as well as Sales & Marketing. Peter has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and has been involved in numerous multi-billion dollar transactions, as well as establishing business partnerships in North America, Europe and Japan. Peter has also held managerial positions at Ford Motor Company and Rothmans International, and has lived and worked in North America, Europe and Africa.
Brian McCormack, VP Sales
 Brian McCormack brings over 30 years of experience in the Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries. Prior to joining DragonWave, Brian has held Senior Sales and Marketing roles at Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems and DSC/Alcatel. In addition, Brian played a key role as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Avici Systems, a recognized leader in the carrier class switch /router market.
Brian has extensive experience in building direct sales teams in the US and Europe as well as indirect channels in Asia. He has led teams that have won multi-million dollar, multi-year supply contracts with major carriers in North America as well as orders from key European carriers. Brian holds a BA degree from St. Anselm College.
Erik Boch, Founder, CTO & VP Engineering
 Erik Boch holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa and is a registered professional engineer. Erik has held senior engineering or technical management positions at a number of communications and aerospace companies namely Litton Systems, ComDev, Lockheed Martin and Alcatel Networks (formerly Newbridge). While at Alcatel, Erik was AVP of the Wireless Systems Group and was involved in various aspects of microwave & millimeter wave subsystem and system design for more than 22 years. Erik led the R&D team at Alcatel (formerly Newbridge) that introduced the first ATM-based Fixed Wireless Access System in the industry.
Erik has been published extensively in major networking publications, including Telephony, Microwave Journal, Wireless Review, Internet Telephony and America's Network. Erik has spoken at numerous industry events including IEEE sessions, WCA, Broadband Wireless World and IWPC. Erik has served on the Technical Advisory Board of the NCIT (National Capital Institute of Technology). Erik holds several approved RF design patents, with numerous patents pending.
Dave Farrar, Founder & VP Operations
 Dave Farrar has over 24 years of design and senior management experience in the telecommunications and networking industries. Prior to DragonWave, he was with Newbridge Networks Corp., where he held senior management positions in Product Management, Research and Development, Operations, and Information Technology.
Prior to joining Newbridge, Dave was Director of Engineering at Synapse Corporation, a startup focused on data communications design and an Engineering Manager at Mitel Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Alan Solheim, VP Product Management
 Dr. Alan Solheim holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo. With more than 21 years of industry experience in Telecommunications. Prior to joining DragonWave, Alan was Chief Technology Officer at Innovance Networks, a reconfigurable optical networking start-up. Prior to Innovance, Alan was a Vice President at Nortel Networks responsible for market strategy in the metro transport group. Alan has extensive experience, notably working on 6 generations of fiber optic transmission systems, and the system design authority for Nortel’s OC-192 program.
Alan has over 50 patents that he has been principal or co-author of, numerous papers in industry journals and has acted on a variety of industry and conference committees.
Russell Frederick, VP Finance & CFO
 Russell Frederick brings over 20 years of financial and operational experience to the DragonWave team including raising venture capital, mergers and acquisitions transactions, and the management of small, high opportunity organizations.
Prior to joining DragonWave, Russell was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Wavesat Wireless Inc. based in Montreal. Previous to Wavesat, Russell was the CFO of PRIOR Data Sciences Ltd. where he played a key role in the management buy out of the company and subsequent sale. Russell was also with Digital Equipment of Canada in various financial roles.
Russell holds a Masters of Business Administration degree in Finance as well as a Bachelor of Science degree.
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