Decision Makers
Board of Directors
With over 20 years experience creating shareholder value through broadband telecommunications products and services Brad Ketch became Rim Semi s President and CEO December 2002. Previously, Mr. Ketch served as CEO of Kentrox, a manufacturer and marketer of data networking equipment. At Kentrox, Mr. Ketch was responsible for a company with 260 employees and $90 million in annual revenues. In 1999 he co-founded HyperEdge Corporation (now Westell), and also served as Senior Vice President. HyperEdge acquired and integrated broadband access equipment manufacturers to further enable service providers to deliver broadband access to the "Last Mile". He held prior positions with Advanced Fibre Communications (now Tellabs), Nortel Networks, and Cincinnati Bell. Mr. Ketch has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and a B.A. in Economics from Wheaton College.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Rim Semiconductor Co |
President and CEO |
Current |
| Waterville Investment Research, Inc |
|
Current |
| Kentrox, LLC |
CEO |
Former |
| Hyperedge Corporation |
Co-Founder |
Former |
| Northwestern University |
MBA |
Former |
| Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University |
MBA |
Former |
| Wheaton College |
B.A. In Economics |
Former |
Mr. Wojcik has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and a proven record of success as a technical and marketing executive with Alcatel, DSC Communications, Tellabs and Neutral Tandem. He has led sales, product and market development efforts to major Regional Bell companies, municipalities, and independent telephone operating companies including SBC, Qwest and MCI. He is now an executive at one of Rim Semiconductor s target customers. Alcatel is a global multi-billion dollar data and telecommunications manufacturer, and currently commands 40% of the worldwide DSLAM port shipments, according to Dittberner Associates. Rim Semiconductor s product, the Cupria family of transport processors, operates inside DSLAMs. At Alcatel, Mr. Wojcik served as vice president of sales where he developed and led a new broadband solutions organization, and also turned around a poor performing business group into a long term balanced revenue stream. Under his leadership, Alcatel achieved new incremental business growth of over 400% within a 30 month period including growing the broadband solutions market an incremental $40M while achieving high margins. Prior to joining Alcatel, Mr. Wojcik served in a variety of capacities with DSC Communications, which was purchased by Alcatel in 1998. He was instrumental in helping DSC establish its market leading position in DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) and NGDLC (Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier) with the Bell Operating companies and other major carriers. Mr. Wojcik also served at Chief Technical Officer and founder of Neutral Tandem Corporation where he co-developed the business plan and assisted with completion of the patent. Mr. Wojcik was a consultant to the company in 2005, and now advises as a member of our Technical Advisory Board.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Rim Semiconductor Co |
Vice President of Engineering |
Current |
| Rim Semiconductor Co |
Director of Engineering |
Former |
| Rfid Inc. |
Engineering Manager |
Former |
| Avnera Corporation |
|
Former |
Dr. David Greaves, MIEE, completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1989 on the subject of ATM metropolitan area networks. For four years he was a research engineer at Olivetti Research in Cambridge, where he developed ATM prototype switches and line interfaces. He was one of the first advocates of ATM technology outside the core network. In 1993, he was network architect for the Cambridge Interactive Television Trial, which was the world's first test bed to provide ATM network connectivity all the way to the home. This trial ran for 18 months and served more than 50 homes and schools. Currently he is a University Lecturer in Cambridge and also Chief Scientist at Virata Corporation, a leading supplier of ASICs and software for DSL applications. Dr. Greaves is also involved with AT&T, BT, AMG Ltd and Tenisontech Ltd. Dr. Greaves is currently a member of the Systems Research Group and undertakes research in the area of hardware design and system specification with an emphasis on networking. He has recently been working on tools for the Verilog language using formal methods and the HOL theorem prover and is now applying these techniques to more general hardware and software system specification and codesign using high-level languages. In the Hanlan project, Dr. Greaves and his group are investigating the integration of media-access control and VDSL modem design for high-performance networking over home phone wiring within the home. This project integrates ATM and Frame traffic at the physical layer and uses novel synchronization techniques to avoid preambles, which would otherwise dominate and reduce efficiency. In a similar way to mobile multimedia radio projects, issues of the variability of available bandwidth to higher layers may eventually affect application, protocol and QoS vector design. In the Warren project, Dr. Greaves' group designed and implemented a complete home multimedia network architecture and parts of this work are being standardized. An extensive position paper describing this work appeared in the January 1998 Edition of IEEE Networking Magazine. In the Autohan project, Dr. Greaves' group is investigating the use of declarative languages based on composite events to control and monitor networks, with a view to providing intuitive and intelligent user interfaces to home networks. Dr. Greaves serves Rim Semiconductor as a member of our Technical Advisory Board.
Dr. Propp co-founded Adaptive Networks with his brother David. Dr. Propp is the co-inventor of Adaptive's technology, and holds key patents in powerline communications technology. He is also the author of several papers in the fields of complex dynamic systems and Powerline communications. Dr. Propp is a U.S. representative to the IEC for Technical Committee 57, Working Group 09, Distribution Automation Using Distribution Line Carrier Systems and is Chair of CEA R7.3 Home Networking Subcommittee WG1. Dr. Propp holds SB/SM EE (1981) and Ph.D. EE (1985) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Rim Semiconductor Co |
|
Current |
| Waterville Investment Research, Inc |
|
Current |
| Adaptive Networks, Inc. |
Co-Founder |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Waterville Investment Research, Inc |
|
Current |
| Rim Semiconductor Co |
|
Current |
| Polytechnic University |
PhD In Electrical Engineering |
Former |
| Polytechnic Institute of New York |
Bachelor of Science Degree In Electrical Engineering |
Former |
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| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Waterville Investment Research, Inc |
|
Current |
| Singtel |
Head of the Technology Development Department |
Former |
| Cambridge University |
Ph.D. |
Former |
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Waterville Investment Research, Inc |
|
Current |
| Rim Semiconductor Co |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Mesa Mortgage |
Chief Executive Officer |
Former |
| Rim Semiconductor Co |
Chairman of the Board and Executive Vice President |
Former |
William A. Swope is corporate vice president and general manager of Intel's Corporate Sustainability Group. In this role, he is responsible for driving Intel's environmental efforts in the areas of policy, operations and products. Swope works with stakeholders across the company to ensure that Intel continues to build upon its industry leadership in sustainability.
Since joining Intel in 1979, Swope has held numerous roles including corporate affairs leadership, manufacturing technology planning, strategic product planning and product management. Swope was director of Digital Enterprise Brand Management, and prior to that he was general manager of the Software and Solutions Group (SSG), reporting to the president and chief operating officer of Intel. In that capacity he managed the software products and enabling efforts within SSG. From 1993 to 1995, Swope was the general manager of the IntelĀ® PentiumĀ® Pro processor team. Swope was promoted to vice president in 1996 and corporate vice president in 2003.
Swope received his bachelor's degree in applied physics from Tufts College. He earned his master's degree in management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
| Organization |
Position |
Status |
| Intel Corporation |
Vice President & General Manager, Corporate Sustainability Group |
Current |
| Rim Semiconductor Co |
Board of Directors |
Current |
| Intel Corporation |
Vice President & Director, Digital Enterprise Brand Management |
Former |
| S/S/G Corporation |
|
Former |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
master's degree in Management |
Former |