Bill Slakey

Who is Bill Slakey?

Bill Slakey is Tropos Networks' Vice President and

Chief Financial Officer. He brings more than 20 years of experience

strengthening company and financial operations and building

relationships with Wall Street. Prior to joining Tropos Networks, Mr.

Slakey was Chief Financial Officer for Extreme Networks, a provider of

enterprise and carrier switching products. While there, Mr. Slakey

played an important role in the company's return to profitability and

led Extreme's successful Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program. Prior to

Extreme, Mr. Slakey was Chief Financial Officer for Handspring, Inc. At

Handspring, he helped the company refocus its business on the newly

created market for integrated smartphones, and played a key role in the

company's successful merger with Palm Computing. Mr. Slakey's has also

served as the Chief Financial Officer of WJ Communications, a leading

RF semiconductor company, and SnapTrack, Inc., a leading provider of

advanced GPS technology to wireless carriers and semiconductor

manufacturers which was acquired by QUALCOMM. He also has held senior

finance and investor relations positions at 3Com, Apple and Palm

Computing.

Mr. Slakey holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.