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.

Greg Straughn, CFO
Greg has over 30 years experience in the financial management of technology companies, serving as CFO for multiple organizations. At A10 Networks, Greg is responsible for Finance, Accounting and Human Resource Management. Prior to A10, Greg served for 12 years as CFO for Kabira Technologies, a provider of high-performance software products to the telecommunications and financial services market. Previously, he also served as CFO for AT&T/Pacific Bell Internet Services, Principal and General Manager for Meridian Business Systems and CFO for PacTel Finance. Greg holds a B.S. in Finance from UC Berkeley and is the author of several books on financial and general management of small businesses.

Rob Cochran, Vice President, Legal and Corporate Collaboration
Rob has 29 years of experience serving as corporate and general legal counsel for emerging technology companies. Immediately prior to A10, for 17 years Rob was principal of a boutique law firm based in Woodside, California, where he specialized in the representation of growth corporations, and the investors funding such ventures. During this period, Rob served on the Board of Directors of numerous private corporations, and Techwell, Inc. (formerly NASDAQ: TWLL). Earlier in his career, Rob was an International Mergers and Acquisition advisor, and Vice President and General Counsel of Mosel-Vitelic, Inc. (one of the first Silicon Valley technology companies to reorganize and successfully achieve public trading on a foreign public stock exchange). Rob started his career as a corporate securities lawyer with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P. C. Rob has a B.A. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

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, Head 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, Xylogics 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.

Hayato Koeda, President & CEO for A10 Networks KK, and Vice President of South APAC
Hayato is a seasoned business leader and held senior management positions at various IT companies, including Aspect Software Japan, Dell Japan, Motive Japan and Openwave Systems Japan. Most recently, Hayato was Representative Director for Aspect Software where he was responsible for spearheading the overall operations in Japan. Hayato holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Nippon University in Japan. He is a former member of the Japan National Ski Team.

Andre Stewart, Vice President of Sales, EMEA and LATAM
Andre Stewart is an experienced sales executive with a track record of success and over 18 years in the data communications industry. Previously, he was President of International for Corero, a network security company. Prior to Corero, Andre spent eight years at Fortinet, running EMEA and India, and then all Worldwide Sales, growing the company’s revenue exponentially into the successful IPO. He also held sales positions at NetScreen, Agora M&A and Datascape. Andre has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences from Kingston University.

Anurag Narula, VP of Engineering (Software)
Anurag has over 25 years of management and engineering experience focused in the areas of networking, security software, and client server application software development. Prior to A10, Anurag was Senior Director of Engineering for Cisco's Services and Routing Technology Group, responsible for driving the direction and strategy for integrated WAN optimization services and security solutions. Prior to Cisco, Anurag was the VP of Engineering for Mirapoint and over his career held numerous engineering and management positions at Silicon Graphics, Hewlett Packard and Intel. Anurag holds a M.S. in Computer Science from University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Tech & Science.

John Chiong, Vice President of Engineering Program Management
John has over 25 years of experience in the Networking Industry. He formerly held various engineering management positions at Cosine, StrataCom, Cisco, Advanced Computer Communications (ACC), Unisys, and Convergent Technologies. He holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University and a B.S. in Physics from Rangoon University, and holds several patents related to networking and security technologies. He is also the author of two networking books: "Internetworking of IP and ATM" and "Interconnections SNA" (both published by McGraw-Hill and translated into Japanese and Chinese editions for the IP and ATM book).

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.

James Sung, Senior Director of Worldwide Support & Service
James Sung joins A10 Networks with over 20+ years experience in Networking and Storage technologies. Prior to A10, James succeeded in building a Customer Support organization from the ground up in a successful start-up that was acquired by Netgear. James' broad spectrum of technical experience extends to software development manager, project management, and QA management. James holds a software patent on Internet security and has a BS in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine.

John Wei, Managing Director of North 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.