Management
Coulomb Technologies was founded in 2007 by experienced entrepreneurs and executives from Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, 3Com Networks, and Echelon Corporation. Two of the founding members bring valuable experience in local government.
Pasquale (Pat) Romano
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Romano was formerly the President and CEO of 2Wire which was recently acquired by Pace Plc. for $475 million. Prior to co-founding 2Wire, Mr. Romano held several engineering and marketing positions at Polycom, Inc. In 1989, he co-founded Fluent, Inc., a digital video networking company, and served as chief architect until the company was sold to Novell Corporation in 1993. Mr. Romano earned his undergraduate degree in computer science from Harvard University, and received his master's degree from the MIT Media Laboratory.
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Richard Lowenthal
Founder and Chief Technical Officer
Richard Lowenthal is the CTO of Coulomb Technologies, which he co-founded in 2007. From 1998 until 2007 he was instrumental in starting several companies, including Lightera, Pipal Systems and Procket Networks. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Lowenthal was vice president and general manager of Cisco's WAN Access Products Division. From 1990 through 1995, Mr. Lowenthal was vice president of research and development for StrataCom, a telecommunications equipment company. Prior to StrataCom, Mr. Lowenthal was co-founder and vice president of engineering for Stardent Computers, and vice president of engineering for Convergent Technologies. Mr. Lowenthal is also a former Mayor of Cupertino, California, and has been heavily involved in the non-profit world. He has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.
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Dave Baxter
Founder and Vice President of Engineering, Hardware
Dave Baxter is a technology innovator and product developer. Mr. Baxter has held many senior management positions, including vice president of engineering at 3Com Corporation, where he led the development of numerous router based products, and vice president of engineering at Adept Technology, where he developed multiple generations of assembly robots and flexible automation controllers used in factories and food packaging plants worldwide. A pioneer of voice over broadband technology, Mr. Baxter led the development of the industry's first carrier grade voice over DSL system while vice president of engineering for Jetstream Communications. Mr. Baxter has also directed customer service organizations for multiple companies, and earlier in his career, he developed computer systems, ranging from desktop workstations to a graphics supercomputer. Mr. Baxter received a B.S. from the Engineering College at Cornell University.
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Harjinder S. Bhade
Founder and Vice President of Engineering, Software
Harjinder S. Bhade has been in the networking field for more than 20 years, delivering highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems for the world's most demanding applications. Mr. Bhade has held variety of roles in this field, ranging from software engineer, to senior director of engineering, to positions in product quality and project management. Prior to Coulomb Technologies, Mr. Bhade was senior director of engineering at Lucent Technologies and Riverstone Networks. Mr. Bhade was founder and director of software at Pipal Systems, which was acquired by Riverstone Networks. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bhade worked in variety of engineering, project management and quality assurance roles at Pluris, ZeitNet, Network Equipment Technologies and Bell-Northern Research/Nortel. Mr. Bhade holds a B.S. degree in computer science from Chico State and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
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Tony Canova
Chief Financial Officer
Tony Canova has more than 26 years experience as a CFO and partner in public accounting. Prior to joining Coulomb, Mr. Canova was Vice President of Finance, Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Brocade Communications, a publicly listed company that pioneered the Storage Area Networking Industry. Since leaving Brocade, Mr. Canova has focused on advising a number of venture-backed technology companies including 3 Leaf Systems, Ankena and Qumu, serving in roles including Chief Financial Officer as well as advisor to the CEO. Prior to Brocade Mr. Canova served as Chief Financial Officer of Wireless Inc, a wireless broadband equipment manufacturer. Tony was also an audit partner of KPMG LLP where he began his career in 1984. At KPMG Tony focused on audits, mergers and acquisitions and IPOs of a variety of technology companies. Tony holds a B.S. in Accounting from Santa Clara University.
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James Hanley
Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development
Mr. Hanley has more than 20 years experience in the high tech industry. Prior to joining Coulomb, he was President of Field Operations at Force10 networks, a $200M company recently acquired by Dell. At Force10, he managed sales, marketing, channels, business development and services. He has also held executive management roles at CA Technologies and EMC Corporation, and has extensive global management experience via senior leadership roles in Hong Kong and London.
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Milton T. (Tom) Tormey
Vice President of Product Management
Tom Tormey brings to Coulomb demonstrated leadership of high volume, leading edge product development teams in multiple start-up companies. His early experience spans over 15 years in design and senior management positions at semiconductor companies such as Silicon Systems, Zymos, Sierra Semiconductor, and most recently as Vice President of Engineering at InvenSense where Mr. Tormey managed the design and product development teams that created the world's first dual-axis MEMS gyroscope. Prior to InvenSense, Mr. Tormey was Vice President of Engineering at Echelon Corporation where he spent 14 years managing the development of a wide range of networking hardware, including analog/digital boards and systems, routers, gateways, web servers and other 8-, 16- and 32-bit embedded systems as well as the development of an integrated network processor/ PHY chip family that has shipped in excess of 50 million units world-wide. Mr. Tormey received his BSEE from the University of California, Irvine and his MSEE from the University of California Berkeley. He is the co-author of four patents.
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