Management

Lee Chen, Founder and CEO
Lee served most recently as co-founder and vice president of engineering at Foundry Networks. Lee was also a founding member of Centillion Networks (acquired by Nortel). He has held management and senior technical positions at Apple Computer, Convergent Technologies and InSync Group. He holds an M.S.E.E. from San Jose State University and a B.S. in Electrophysics from National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan.

Raj Jalan, CTO
Raj has over 25 years of experience in the Networking Industry. Prior to A10 Raj was the lead  architect for Foundry Networks' ServerIron and L2/L3 switching product families.  Before Foundry he worked on a wide range of Networking technologies from Ethernet, Token-Ring, ATM and Digital Switching Systems. Raj holds a number of patents related to L2/L3 as well as L4/L7 switching.  He has a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Peter Stokes, Vice President of Sales, North America
Peter has a 25+ year track record of building successful sales teams for emerging and established technology companies including Reconnex, IBM, Tandem Computer, Bay Networks and Netopia. Peter holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Arizona State University.

Kelly LeBlanc, Senior Director of Worldwide Marketing
Kelly has over 15 years experience in technology markets. In her current role, Kelly is responsible for A10's worldwide message, including Corporate and Product Marketing. Prior to A10, Kelly held Marketing positions for VERITAS Software (acquired by Symantec) and Fortinet. She also managed accounts at several top ten Public Relations agencies for Adobe and Hewlett-Packard. Kelly has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo.

Joyce Taylor, Vice President of Business Development
Joyce has more than 20 years of success in business development and sales management with technology companies such as Foundry Networks, Bay Networks, Xyologics and Tri Data. Prior to joining A10, she was a successful entrepreneur and served as founder and president of Jetlites, Inc., an award-winning maker of high-performance sports lighting technologies.

Lalgudi N. Kannan, Senior Director of Engineering
Kannan has over 20 years of engineering experience. Prior to A10, he spent nine years at Yahoo where he most recently led the award-winning Video development team. At Yahoo, he also created the leading Web sites Yahoo! Briefcase and Yahoo! Photos and led the development of the Search Shortcuts system. Kannan also held senior technical positions at Escalade Corp and Cadence Design Systems. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a B. Tech. in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Todd Kleppe, Senior Director of Worldwide Operations
Todd Kleppe has 20+ years of successful experience in infrastructure development and running high-tech operations and programs. Prior to A10, he held positions for a variety of established and emerging companies such as Acer, NEC, WaveSplitter Technologies and NextLabs. Todd has a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities Pre-Law from Michigan State University and a MBA from George Washington University.

John Wei, Managing Director, APAC Region
John Wei has over 15 years of experience in the networking industry. Prior to A10, he was the Asia Pacific Managing Director for Trapeze Networks, charged with developing business across the region. John also served as the Asia Pacific regional director in charge of system engineering and marketing for Foundry Networks, and held software engineering positions at Cisco Systems and FORE Systems. He received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan.