Management Team

Joe Golden

President and CEO

Prior to joining ConSentry, Joe was a general partner and co-founder of Accel Partners London and served on the boards of 16 companies, including P-Cube, Kagoor, Icera, Gigle, and Ubidyne. Prior to Accel, he was a vice president at Cisco Systems and held various senior management positions including managing director of business development and strategic alliances (EMEA). Before joining Cisco, Joe was the chief operating officer and vice president of marketing for multi-service access solution vendor Ardent Communications, a Wu Fu Chen start-up acquired by Cisco in 1997. Joe holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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Jeff Prince

Chairman and CTO

Jeff has more than 18 years of experience developing networking and ASIC technologies. Prior to becoming chairman and CTO of ConSentry Networks, Jeff was a founder of Foundry Networks (FDRY), where he lead Foundry's hardware engineering group. Prior to Foundry, Jeff was a founder of Centillion Networks, which was acquired by Bay Networks in 1995. Prior to Centillion, Jeff was a hardware engineering manager at Network Equipment Technologies. Jeff holds eight patents related to networking technologies, and he has a BS in Computer Engineering from California State University Chico. Jeff is also a managing partner at Prince Ventures, LP.

William Delaney

Vice President and CFO

William brings expertise in finance to ConSentry that's based on 20 years of experience: most recently, he served as CFO at Chelsio Communications. Prior to Chelsio, he was CFO at MediaQ, which was acquired by nVidia in 2003, and vice president of finance at Incyte Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Incyte, Delaney worked with several top Bay Area technology companies, including Stratacom/Cisco as operations controller, Chiron as assistant corporate controller, and eight years at LSI Logic, where he last held the position of director of world wide operations for finance. William holds a B. S. in Accounting and Finance from University of Limerick, Ireland. 

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Dean Hickman-Smith

Vice President, Sales and Support

Dean is responsible for worldwide sales and support. He joined ConSentry Networks from Juniper Networks, where he was vice president of emerging technologies, driving global sales of NetScreen’s newest technology acquisitions and product offerings. Before joining NetScreen (acquired by Juniper in 2004), Dean was vice president of worldwide sales at TopLayer Networks, a developer of intrusion prevention, interception, and authentication access systems. Prior to that, he co-founded Congress Communications, a European sales accelerator firm for technology start-ups, including Inktomi, Arrowpoint, Ramp, and Ipivot. Prior to commercial roles Dean worked on projects with the UK Government, has a military intelligence background and was a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force, graduating from officer training at the RAF College Cranwell.

Sam Farsad

Vice President, Engineering

Prior to ConSentry Sam was the vice president of software engineering at Extreme Networks. At Extreme, Sam was responsible for the development and verification of the company's entire software portfolio from ExtremeWare and ExtremeWare XOS network operating system, to all network management, provisioning, and other software offerings. Prior to Extreme, Sam was with Nortel Networks and served as director of system test engineering, responsible for the qualification and verification of the L2/L3 switching product lines as well as Nortel/Bay’s network management products. While at Nortel he was responsible for a variety of new products, including Nortel's BayStack, Centillion, Accelar, and Optivity product offerings.  Sam received his BA from the University of California, San Diego and a MS in telecommunications engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Mario Nemirovsky Ph.D

Vice President, Chief Scientist and Founder

Mario is VP, chief scientist and a founder of ConSentry Networks and also an ICREA Research Professor at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center..He pioneered the concept of Massively Multithreading (MMT) processing for the high performance processor “LSP” he architected for ConSentry. He is currently designing the next generation of this line of stateful processor. He had previously pioneered the by now well established Simultaneous Multithreding architecture (SMT). Mario was an adjunct professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1991 to 1998. He has done research in many areas of computer architecture, including simultaneous multithreading, high-performance architectures, and real-time and network processors. Prior to ConSentry, Mario founded XstreamLogic, and architected its high-performance SMT network processor. Before that, he was a chief architect at National Semiconductor and at Weitek. In 1985 he was a chief architect at Delco Electronics, General Motors (GM), where he architected a GM engine control. This heavily multithreaded real-time processor is still used in all GM cars today. Mario was one of the first to understand the power of multithreading, which he termed dynamic multistreaming and first published on this subject in Micro-24 in 1991. He subsequently published results on SMT in HICSS (in 1993 and 1994) and in PACT (in 1995). Mario holds 42 issued and 24 pending patents has co-authored over 20 publications. Mario has received multiple awards and been on the cover pages several technical magazines.  Just last year he was named Entrepreneur of the year and also one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the area by the Hispanic Net in San Jose,CA.  Mario received his PhD in ECE from University of California at Santa Barbara in 1990.

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