John Peters, chief executive officer of Reconnex, has built a distinguished executive management career in Silicon Valley. As CEO he is responsible for the leadership, strategic direction and successful growth of the company and its employees. Mr. Peters has been CEO of several venture capital backed companies including PocketThis, an application software provider to mobile carriers; Yipes Enterprise Services, an enterprise-focused provider of Ethernet network services within and between cities; Netli, a software-intensive network service business; and Sigma Networks, a provider of broadband metropolitan area services. Prior to Sigma Networks, Peters was executive vice president for Concentric Network Corporation where he held various senior management roles leading the operations, engineering, product development, product management, Web hosting services, and corporate development organizations. Peters has also served as president of Venture Development Consulting, specializing in new communications and information services; vice president and chief operating officer of Pacific Bell Information Services, Inc.; vice president of application services for Telestream Corporation; co-founder of Integrated Office Systems, Inc., a communications and information systems company; and vice president of advanced network services for GTE Telenet Communications Corporation. Peters has an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. degree in statistics from Stanford University. |