Leadership
- Andy Gottlieb, CEO
- John Dickey, Vice President of Engineering
- David Talovic, Vice President of Sales
Andy Gottlieb
CEO
Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route-management software startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University.
John Dickey
Vice President of Engineering
Before co-founding Talari Networks, John was senior director of software engineering at Applied Microcircuits (AMCC), where he led the architecture, design, and development of a broad array of switching and routing protocol software implementations for embedded systems. John joined AMCC upon its acquisition of MMC Networks, the pioneering maker of network-optimized processors (NPUs). He was also the founding Chair of the Network Processing Forum industry standards organization's Software Working Group and holds patents in multiple areas of networking technology. Prior to MMC, John held a variety of engineering and management positions at IBM and was distinguished as an Advisory Engineer. John earned a degree cum laude in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh.
David Talovic
Vice President of Sales
Dave has over 20 years of sales leadership experience, with more than 12 years of networking industry startup experience. Prior to joining Talari, he was the fifth employee at Orbital Data Corporation, a leading WAN Optimization company that was sold to Citrix Systems in 2006. In 1997, Dave was the employee number 12 at Keynote Systems, a pioneer of Internet performance measurement services which successfully IPO'd in September 2000. He developed Keynote's early major Enterprise accounts, including Microsoft, and then served as General Manager of Keynote's Service Provider business, which successfully bundled web site performance measurement services with the hosting offers of major providers such as Digex, UUnet, Globalcenter, Cable&Wireless, Digital Island, and Exodus. Dave has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
