Saar Gillai

Who is Saar Gillai?

Saar Gillai is Tropos Networks’ Vice President of

Engineering and Product Management. Mr. Gillai brings more than 20

years of engineering and management experience to Tropos Networks. Most

recently, Mr. Gillai was Vice President of Engineering for the Wireless

Networking Business Unit of Cisco Systems, where over the past four

years he played a key role in building Cisco’s enterprise WLAN product

line to the number one position in the market, having developed and

shipped more than $1.5 billion in products during his tenure. In

addition, Mr. Gillai was instrumental in the company’s WLAN acquisition

and integration strategy, most recently playing a key role in the

acquisition, and integration of WLAN equipment provider Airespace.

During his tenure with Cisco, Mr. Gillai also held key management

positions in product development for the Desktop Switching Business

Unit and the Multi Service Switching Business Unit, where he worked

closely with major service providers on next generation network

architectures.

Prior to Cisco, Mr. Gillai held

management positions at Newbridge Networks, where he played a

significant role in the development of their ATMnet systems, as well as

Rohde Schwartz Canada and Wasserman Advisors.