John Neese

Who is John Neese?

John joined Entrisphere in 2003 bringing over 25 years of telecom hardware

development experience to manage hardware development. In 1996, he co-founded

Vina Technologies, Inc., an early developer of integrated access voice and

data solutions for enterprise networks, carriers and service providers where

he served as hardware designer, Hardware Director and Vice President of

Engineering bringing the company through a successful IPO. John also served

for 5 years as Engineering Hardware Director at StrataCom, Inc., which successfully

IPO'ed and was later acquired by Cisco Systems. Prior to that John was a

key hardware developer in several Telecom startup companies since leaving

Rolm Corporation in 1980. John studied Electrical Engineering at San Jose

State University and graduated with honors from US Navy schools in Electronics

with advanced training in shipboard missile systems.