Tropos Networks

Ron Sege is President and Chief Operating Officer of 3Com. He is responsible for the company’s day-to-day operations outside of China, accelerating the global adoption of products developed by the company’s H3C operations and ensuring the company provides world-class service and support to its customers and partners. Before joining 3Com, Sege was President and CEO of Tropos Networks, a provider of wireless broadband networks, from 2004 to 2008. He is currently on Tropos' Board of Advisors. Prior to Tropos, Sege was President and CEO of Ellacoya Networks, Inc., a provider of broadband service optimization solutions based on deep packet inspection technology. During his career, Sege also served as Executive Vice President of Lycos, Inc., the Internet search engine. He previously spent nine years at 3Com Corporation, from 1989-1998, serving in a variety of senior management roles, including Executive Vice President, Global Systems Business Unit. Sege is a frequent speaker on networking, financial, market and industry trends and issues at major trade shows and conferences around the world. He has more than 20 years of experience in managing high-growth businesses in the networking industry. Sege holds an MBA from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College.

John Shelnutt is Tropos Networks' Vice President of Worldwide Sales, responsible for sales of Tropos MetroMesh products to carriers, ISPs and municipalities around the world. Mr. Shelnutt brings 22 years of carrier sales leadership to Tropos, most recently serving for eight years as Group Vice President/Sales for Alcatel U.S. At Alcatel, he sold the full range of the company's mobility products to U.S. mobile operators such as Cingular, Verizon, Sprint/Nextel and T-Mobile. Mr. Shelnutt also held the positions of Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development for Alcatel NAFTA and Director of Switching Sales for Alcatel. He secured DSL equipment contracts with the Joint Procurement Consortium (JPC) comprised of Ameritech, BellSouth, Southwestern Bell, and PacBell valued at more than $5 billion for Alcatel. He was key to establishing DSL in the market and served on the Board of the DSL Forum, an industry consortium for the definition and advancement of DSL. Earlier in his career, Mr. Shelnutt sold for Northern Telecom, ITT, MCI and Alta Telecom (a subsidiary of Telus). Mr. Shelnutt holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mike Bailey brings over 25 years of product development, manufacturing and operations experience to Tropos Networks. Previously, Mr. Bailey served as Vice President of Operations for Nishan Systems, where he expanded operations and customer support to accommodate a ten times growth in sales in an eighteen month period. Before Nishan, Mr. Bailey served as Vice President of Operations of Lantern Communications. Previously, Mr. Bailey was Vice President of Operations for DiviCom, directing operations and customer service from initial product development through $200 million in annual revenue. Earlier, Mr. Bailey held managerial positions at Compression Labs and Eastman Kodak Company.

Prior to joining Voyager in 2000, Curtis spent eight years as the Executive Vice President at Stanford University's $9-billion endowment. He held wide responsibilities in private equity investing and management, including oversight of the Stanford Research Park, Stanford Shopping Center, portfolio policy, and venture investing (carrying bottom-line profit responsibility for about half the Stanford Management Company). Before joining Stanford University, Curtis spent five years leading Trammell Crow's northwest region in Seattle. He was responsible for $700 million in assets and ran a full-scale development operation covering Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver, B.C. Prior to joining Trammell Crow, he worked in the semiconductor industry for Mostek Semiconductor and was in Research & Development in the energy industry. He serves on the board of directors for Contivo, Inc., Tropos Networks, Verari Systems and CB Richard Ellis (NYSE: CBRE). He also recently received a Presidential Appointment to the Presidio Trust. Curtis graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University with a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering. He earned a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School .

Reed E. Hundt is an advisor on information industries to McKinsey and Company, a worldwide management consulting firm. His work with McKinsey has focused on helping senior management and boards address a wide range of strategic and other leadership challenges. He also serves on the board of directors of three publicly traded companies, Allegiance Telecom, Inc., Expedia, and Intel Corp. He is a special advisor to Blackstone Group, a New York-based private equity firm, and a venture partner at Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, specializing in investments in high-tech companies. He teaches a seminar cross-listed at the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management, where he serves as a member of the advisory committee. Hundt served four years as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), from 1993 to 1997. He also helped negotiate the World Trade Organization Telecommunications agreement, opening markets in 69 countries to competition and dropping barriers to foreign investment. He is especially proud of his role in making the largest single national commitment to K-12 education in America's history: the Snowe-Rockefeller program that dedicates more than $2 billion annually to connect all classrooms in the country to the Internet. Hundt is the author of, "You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics." (Yale University Press, 2000). He has also been Co-Chairman of The Forum on Communications and Society at The Aspen Institute.