Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 19, 2004

BOB HOWARD-ANDERSON – OCCAM NETWORKS INC (OCCM)

BOB HOWARD-ANDERSON is President and Chief Executive Officer of Occam Networks, Inc. He joined Occam Networks in March 2002 from Procket Networks, where he was Vice President of Product Operations with responsibility for R&D, product management and manufacturing operations. He has over 20 years' experience in the data and telecommunication equipment industries, managing large R&D and product development organizations at an executive level. Prior to Procket Networks, Mr. Howard-Anderson was Vice President of Engineering for Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he was responsible for developing and introducing a broad portfolio of products for central office and service provider markets, including the highly successful line of carrier-grade Netra servers. Prior to Sun, he held positions of VP of Engineering at First Pacific Networks and Network Equipment Technology, as well as management positions at Bolt Baranek and Newman (BBN), and Octocom, Inc. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Tufts University. Profile
TWST: We'd like to begin with a brief historical sketch of Occam

Networks and a picture of the things you're doing at the present time.

Mr. Howard-Anderson: Occam Networks develops,