Roel Pieper Appointed to the Mocana Advisory Board.Technology Veteran and Former Tandem Computers (company) Tandem Computers - A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994). CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Brings over 25 Years of Business and Technology Expertise to the Board SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Mocana, a provider of complete open standards-based security solutions that secure next generation networks and services all the way to edge devices, today announced that Roel Pieper Roland ("Roel") Pieper (1956 - ) is a Dutch IT-entrepreneur. Pieper was born in Vlaardingen, son of an engineer at a car manufacturer. His father died when Pieper was 20, and on his 18th birthday he was subject to a motoring accident which destroyed his sporting career as a player has been named to the Mocana Advisory Board. As a member of the Advisory Board, Mr. Pieper will provide additional strategic counsel for both the business and technology aspects of Mocana. "We are very pleased to have an industry luminary like Roel join the Mocana Advisory Board," said Adrian Turner, Chief Executive Officer, Mocana. "Roel's vast technology experience brings additional credibility and industry perspective to our board. We anticipate that he will make immediate and significant contributions to both our technology development and our business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets ." Mr. Pieper currently serves as Managing Director and Chairman of Favonius Ventures, a leading European investment fund The European Investment Fund, established in 1994, is a European Union agency for the provision of finance to SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) headquartered in Brussels. It does not lend money to SMEs directly; rather it provides finance through private banks. focusing on technology companies, a firm he originally founded in 1999 as Insight Capital Partners Europe. Prior to founding his investment firm he served as executive vice president of Philips Electronics N.V., where he also served as a Member of the Board of Directors from 1998 to 1999. In 1995 Mr. Pieper was named President and CEO of Tandem Computers, which was acquired two years later by Compaq. Mr. Pieper is known as a technology visionary for his insight and expertise into the high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. and next generation networks. He brings over 25 years of management and technology experience to Monaca's Advisory Board with companies in the U.S. and in Europe. "Joining Mocana's Advisory Board provides a great opportunity for me to contribute to an exciting company and help shape an innovative technology - one that I feel is creating the foundation for the next wave of computing," said Roel Pieper. "I look forward to contributing to the growth and success of Mocana and applying my management and technology experience to help the company extend its reach into many new areas." Mr. Pieper received his doctoral in computer science and mathematics from the University of Delft Delft (dĕlft), city (1994 pop. 91,941), South Holland prov., W Netherlands. It has varied industries and is noted for its ceramics (china, tiles, and pottery) known as delftware. Founded in the 11th cent. , Netherlands, where he graduated summa cum laude sum·ma cum lau·de adv. & adj. With the greatest honor. Used to express the highest academic distinction: graduated summa cum laude; a summa cum laude graduate. . Mr. Pieper has served as a member of the Board of Directors for several companies including Veritas, Computer Associates, and Scientific Atlanta, as well as numerous non-profit organizations. About Mocana Mocana is a security software company focused on enabling next generation networks and services all the way to edge devices. Mocana's industry-leading infrastructure software solutions ensure that wired and wireless devices, networks and services perform and scale with the utmost security - a necessary foundation for a networked society. Customers include Dell, Cisco, Avaya, Nortel Networks, Harris, Honeywell, Symbol, Emulex, Net.com and Radvision, among others. Mocana was founded in 2002, is privately-held, and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit http://www.mocana.com/. To request a free full source code and documentation evaluation of Mocana's security solutions, visit http://www.mocana.com/evaluate.html. |
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