Dr. Stepner is a Silicon Valley veteran with extensive experience in aggressively growing a variety of successful high-tech companies. Most recently, Dr. Stepner was CEO of Teja Technologies, a software company targeting the networking equipment market. Prior to that, he was general manager of the platforms business unit of Wind River Systems, developer of the Tornado development environment and VxWorks operating system. He came to Wind River via its acquisition of Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI), where he served as president of its Diab-SDS subsidiary, and earlier as vice president of R&D. Dr. Stepner also held executive positions at Greyhawk Systems, which he co-founded, and Diasonics, which conducted the largest IPO in history up to its time, and was vice president of R&D at Measurex Corp. Dr. Stepner received a B.S. from Brown University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford. |