Leadership Team
Zane M. Taylor, CEO, Co-Founder
Zane M Taylor is a Silicon Valley veteran with more than 30-years of industry experience managing Global Operations, Manufacturing and Sales for world-renowned companies including Cisco Systems, Exodus Communications, NetScaler, Citrix and FireEye. Zane’s knowledge of all aspects of operations has been instrumental in helping numerous startups grow quickly and has resulted in several successful exits.
Zane M Taylor is a Silicon Valley veteran with more than 30-years of industry experience managing Global Operations, Manufacturing and Sales for world-renowned companies including Cisco Systems, Exodus Communications, NetScaler, Citrix and FireEye. Zane’s knowledge of all aspects of operations has been instrumental in helping numerous startups grow quickly and has resulted in several successful exits.
Sherman Tang, CMO, Co-Founder
Sherman brings over 19 years of technological experience in designing and manufacturing of networking, security, server and storage systems to Sideband Networks. Sherman has previously implemented successful sales and marketing campaigns growing $100M+ industry revenues in a variety of market segments for companies including Flextronics, IWILL Corp. and AIC.
Sherman brings over 19 years of technological experience in designing and manufacturing of networking, security, server and storage systems to Sideband Networks. Sherman has previously implemented successful sales and marketing campaigns growing $100M+ industry revenues in a variety of market segments for companies including Flextronics, IWILL Corp. and AIC.
Bharat Gupte, Executive Chairman and CFO
Bharat has over 30 years in communications products, wireless infrastructure, mobile apps, media and semiconductor businesses. Managing Director at Redwood Ventures and Board Member to several technology companies including Niksun, Lumasense and OKI Semiconductor building them up from scratch to profitable>$100M revenue entities.
Bharat has over 30 years in communications products, wireless infrastructure, mobile apps, media and semiconductor businesses. Managing Director at Redwood Ventures and Board Member to several technology companies including Niksun, Lumasense and OKI Semiconductor building them up from scratch to profitable>$100M revenue entities.
Steven Noble, CTO
A 25 year networking veteran with successful exits at Exodus and Procket Networks, as well as technical leadership at Cisco. Steven is an apt speaker and can be seen driving Open Standards in the networking industry, most recently in SDN focusing on Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
A 25 year networking veteran with successful exits at Exodus and Procket Networks, as well as technical leadership at Cisco. Steven is an apt speaker and can be seen driving Open Standards in the networking industry, most recently in SDN focusing on Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
Roger Choplin, VP Engineering Roger Choplin brings over 30 years industry expertise to Sideband Networks as Principal SW Engineer at Data General, Veritas and VP - Database Software Engineering at Oracle for 20 years. Roger is seasoned at building teams from startup phase through maturity and has managed successful deployments of mission critical infrastructures for Financial and Cloud Service Providers such as Fidelity, Amazon, eBay and Salesforce.com.