Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee
number one, returns to Sun as Chief Architect and Senior Vice
President, Network Systems organization and is also a member of Sun's
executive management team. In his new role,Bechtolsheim will drive the
rapid productization of next generation network server technologies. Bechtolsheim
brings with him over 25 years of Network Computing knowledge and
expertise. He was a co-founder ...
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Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee
number one, returns to Sun as Chief Architect and Senior Vice
President, Network Systems organization and is also a member of Sun's
executive management team. In his new role,Bechtolsheim will drive the
rapid productization of next generation network server technologies.
Bechtolsheim
brings with him over 25 years of Network Computing knowledge and
expertise. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems where he held a
variety of roles including Vice President of Technology and Chief
Architect of Sun's highly successful workstation product line. He
invented the "Stanford University Network workstation" that eventually
became the Sun-1 Workstation and was instrumental in launching other
successful Sun products, including the SparcStation 1.
Bechtolsheim
left Sun in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a Gigabit Ethernet start-up
company, that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996. Andy became Vice
President of Engineering and later Vice President General Manager of
Cisco's Gigabit Systems business which developed the Catalyst 4000
family, the industry's highest volume modular Ethernet switching
platform.
Bechtolsheim returns to Sun via the Kealia, Inc.
acquisition, a company which he co-founded to develop advanced server
technology.
Bechtolsheim received a MS in computer engineering
from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and he was a PhD student in
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
from1977 to 1982. He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, a
German National Merit Foundation scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur
Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for
Innovation and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
