John Lee - Chief Executive Officer
John joined Velocix in April 2008 and brings with him, over 25 years of senior financial and general management experience, initially gained in multinational businesses and particularly in high-growth technology businesses.
John's experience includes building a number of technology based start-ups into successful businesses, raising significant amounts of venture capital funding and in the process creating substantial shareholder value.
John joins Velocix from Cambridge Semiconductor where he held the position of CFO and Director for the company.
John Dillon - Chief Marketing Officer
John joined Velocix in July 2007 as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Previously he served at Internet security firm, SurfControl where he also held the position of CMO, responsible for the company's global field marketing, corporate communications, product marketing and product management efforts.
Prior to SurfControl, John was VP EMEA Marketing at Business Integration supplier webMethods. Before joining webMethods, John held marketing and technology leadership roles at mobile content delivery enabler, Volantis, B2B integration provider, Extricity, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
John has a B.Sc. Computer Science from Brunel University.
Jonathan Anstey - VP Worldwide Sales
Jonathan brings over 20 years of highly successful enterprise sales experience working for industry leading technology vendors and is responsible for world wide sales strategy and execution.
Prior to joining Velocix, Jonathan was VP Worldwide Sales at Tribold Ltd where he was instrumental in securing institutional VC funding, closing Tribold's first multi million contract and the significant development of the business pipeline and sales organisation.
Jonathan held senior sales positions for over 8 years at Siebel Systems, twice being awarded salesperson of year. Jonathan has also held senior sales positions at Software AG, Walker International and Memorex Telex.
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Richard Gibbs - VP Worldwide Technical Consulting
Richard joined Velocix from Tribold where he held the role of VP World Wide Sales Consulting. In this role he helped deliver initial key customer accounts and support the development of Tribold's new product portfolio management software. Prior to Tribold, Richard held the role of Chief Technology Officer, EMEA for Epiphany.
Previously, Richard has also held various senior managerial roles at Siebel Systems and other Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution providers.
Christy Thomas - VP Corporate Strategy & Business Development
Christy is responsible for identifying and managing strategic partnerships and alliances to drive continued growth and profitability across Velocix.
With over 15 years experience within the Media and Telecommunications sector, Christy's career started with senior account positions at France Telecom, Global One and Level(3) Communications. Christy was one of the first employees in Europe for Digital Island / Sandpiper Networks, the world's first CDN provider, leading the Business Development team responsible for ISP relationships and Service Provider content strategy across the region.
Christy holds a bachelors degree from the University of London and a Masters degree from the University of Bath.
Bob Lindsey - VP Operations
Bob has a long and successful track record in senior operations roles and brings tremendous experience in infrastructure and customer service to Velocix.
Prior to joining Velocix, Bob was CTO and VP Global Operations at Madge, Managing Director at Ionica, and Engineering & Operations Director at Cognito.
Bob has a first class B.Sc (hons) in Computer and Communication Engineering from Essex University.
David Ferguson - Chief Architect
David has overall responsibility for the design and architecture of the Velocix Network.
Prior to joining Velocix David was Principal Consultant at Video Networks and VP Engineering at Zeus Technology and he also held positions with Scientific Generics and Madge Networks. His technical expertise includes ADSL access network design, high performance Unix server software, wireless, LAN switching and network modelling and he is the inventor of two patents in data communications.
David has a MA in Mathematics and Computation from University College, Oxford.