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 BS 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.

Rod Kay

Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Rod brings to ConSentry more than 20 years of sales, marketing, and technical experience in the global telecommunications and networking industry. Most recently, Rod was president and CEO of TeraChip, a fabless semiconductor company providing next-generation merchant switch fabrics and traffic managers for switch and router systems. Before TeraChip, Rod was vice president of marketing at Ardent Communications, acquired by Cisco Systems in 1997. Prior to joining Ardent, Rod was vice president of marketing at XLNT Designs (acquired by Intel) and Ascom Timeplex. Rod holds bachelor degrees in engineering and business from Utah State University and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School. 

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Robert Hon, PhD

Executive Vice President, Engineering

Rob brings more than 25 years experience to ConSentry. Most recently, Rob was the vice president of engineering at Network Physics, where he led the team delivering a network-visibility and diagnosis appliance. Prior to Network Physics, Rob was the vice president of engineering at Packeteer. He has also held senior management positions at Cadence Design Systems and Apple Computer, and he was on the faculty of Columbia University. He received a BS in engineering and applied science from Yale University and earned both a MS and PhD in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University.

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, and prior to Chelsio he was CFO at MediaQ, which was acquired by nVidia in 2003. He was previously vice president of finance at Incyte Pharmaceuticals, and before that he worked with several top Bay Area technology companies, including Stratacom/Cisco as operations controller, Chiron as assistant corporate controller, and LSI Logic as director of worldwide operations for finance. William holds a BS in accounting and finance from University of Limerick, Ireland.

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Derek Granath

Vice President, Marketing

Before joining ConSentry, Derek was vice president of marketing for Woven Systems, where he launched the company along with its first product, a 144-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch targeted to data center applications. Before joining Woven, he served as vice president of marketing for TeraChip. Previously, Derek was senior director of product marketing and management at Brocade Communications, where he defined and launched several fibre channel product lines. Prior to Brocade, Derek was senior group marketing manager at Cisco and Stratacom, acquired by Cisco. Derek also held management positions in sales, product marketing, and manufacturing at KLA/Tencor. Derek holds a BSEE from Stanford University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

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Mario Nemirovsky Ph.D

Vice President, Chief Scientist and Founder

Mario is vice president, chief scientist, and a founder of ConSentry 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 he architected for ConSentry, and he had previously pioneered Simultaneous Multithreading 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. At Delco Electronics, General Motors (GM) in 1985, he architected an engine control processor still used in all GM cars today. Mario first published on dynamic multistreaming in Micro-24 in 1991, and 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 and has co-authored more than 20 publications. Mario has received multiple awards, including Entrepreneur of the Year and 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 the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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