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For more than twenty five years Mr. Keating has served as a Corporate Officer and/or Director of both public and private technology companies, including four NASDAQ, a New York Stock Exchange and a European public corporation. He is currently President and CEO of Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. ( NYSE: NWK) a wide area networking company.
Prior to Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. he was President and Chief Executive Officer of IP Infusion Inc. from 2000 to 2004 IP Infusion is a software developer and licensor of advanced networking software for enhanced IP services. With customers throughout the world, IP Infusion is one of the leading companies in the IP routing and switching disciplines.
In 1999 Mr. Keating became President and Chief Executive Officer of US SEARCH.com Inc. US SEARCH is a Web-based provider of on-line information services to individual, corporate and professional users. He took the company public in June, 1999 in a Bear Stearns and Robertson Stephens lead IPO.
From 1993 to 1998 Mr. Keating was an advisor to a number of worldwide organizations. His clients included AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Cornerstone Equity Investors and Integrated Telecom Technologies. He has assisted his clients in negotiating business relationships with various companies including Hitachi Data Systems, Fuji, Polaroid, LM Ericsson, Honeywell, IBM and Samsung Electronics. In addition, Mr. Keating has rendered merger and acquisition assistance to both buyer and seller clients in the United States, Canada and Europe.
From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Keating was a Vice President and Corporate Officer of Network Equipment Technologies a provider of wide-area networking products and services. His responsibilities included corporate development, strategic partnering, international operations, investor relations and supervision of the company's legal department. He was instrumental in developing relationships with many companies including IBM, LM Ericsson, Tellabs and Cisco Systems. He also negotiated arrangements with both domestic and international telephony and data network providers including France Telecom, Infonet, AT&T and British Telecom.
Mr. Keating serves on the Board of Directors and is a member of the Audit, Compensation and Nominating Committees of Foundry Networks (NASDAQ: FDRY), a supplier of high performance networking products. He is also on the Board of Directors of Bay Microsystems, a Silicon Valley based semiconductor company and is Chairman of the Board of Seclarity Inc., a network security company.
Mr. Keating is a member of the Board of Trustees, a Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of the Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco and is a San Francisco City Commissioner on the Asian Art Commission. He is also on the Board of Trustees of American University in Washington DC and is a limited partner in two venture capital firms, Doll Capital Management and ATA Ventures.
Mr. Keating received his BA and MA from American University, studied law at Georgetown University and was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico. Prior to his business career, Mr. Keating worked in the State and Commerce Departments in international positions and served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army. | 