Dr. Edward Frank, a technology pacesetter with more than 40 patents to his name, chairs ONStor's Technical Committee. The Technical Committee is tasked with assuring that ONStor product development programs successfully identify and integrate emerging technologies to meet ever-evolving customer requirements, multiply ONStor's technological advantages, and drive future sales. A serial entrepreneur and industry veteran, Dr. Frank has spent more than 30 years developing and delivering award-winning high-performance computing and networking products. Most recently he served as vice president of research and development at Broadcom, where he spent eight years innovating in new markets, such as the 802.11 networking space in which Broadcom enjoys a leadership position. He joined Broadcom following its acquisition of Epigram, a home-networking company he co-founded in 1996. Before Epigram, Dr. Frank co-founded NeTpower, a high-performance workstation company. Earlier in his career, he worked for Sun Microsystems, where he played a principal role in the creation of several generations of SPARCstations and in Sun's Green Project, which gave rise to the Java programming language. Dr. Frank earned a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he serves as a trustee. |