Charles joined Greylock
in 2000. His area of focus is systems, semi-conductors and related
software for communications, computing and storage for the enterprise,
service provider and consumer markets.
Prior to Greylock Charles held executive positions in the
communications sector that spanned both service providers and equipment
suppliers. He joined Greylock from CIENA Corporation where he was vice
president of marketing. Previously Charles had...
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Charles joined Greylock
in 2000. His area of focus is systems, semi-conductors and related
software for communications, computing and storage for the enterprise,
service provider and consumer markets.
Prior to Greylock Charles held executive positions in the
communications sector that spanned both service providers and equipment
suppliers. He joined Greylock from CIENA Corporation where he was vice
president of marketing. Previously Charles had co-founded and led
marketing at Lightera Networks, Inc., a market defining optical core
switching company acquired by CIENA. Before Lightera he held marketing,
sales engineering and engineering roles at Cisco, StrataCom, AT&T
Canada and Bell Canada. During his tenure he developed and launched a
number of new products and services based on new technologies.
Charles represents Greylock on the boards of
Aquantia,
C2 Appliance,
Calista Technologies,
Espial,
Quorum Systems,
SiTime and
ZeroG Wireless. Charles' previous investments include
Sanera Systems (acquired by McDATA) and
Siliquent (acquired by Broadcom).
He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Systems and Computer Engineering in 1988 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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