Management

Richard Sekar, Vice President, Marketing

Richard Sekar is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in marketing and sales in the carrier, consumer, systems and semiconductor market place. Sekar has helped build several successful companies including Ikanos Commmunications, Copper Mountain Networks and Ascend Communications.

Prior to joining Quantenna, Sekar was the founder and CEO of LiteBand Communications, Inc. Sekar also served as the Vice President of marketing at Ikanos where he was instrumental in filing for a successful IPO. He helped bring several generations of industry-leading VDSL chipsets to the market, for both central office and customer premise equipment, and in developing the market for Ikanos products worldwide. Prior to Ikanos, Sekar was the Assistant Vice President of marketing at Copper Mountain Networks with a successful IPO. He led the marketing effort for the central office system products with carriers and ISPs. He launched several successful industry wide initiatives including SDSL interoperability and wireless initiatives. Sekar was instrumental in launching the world's first and successful IDSL and MultiDSL product line at Ascend Communications. In the past, Sekar had held marketing and sales positions at Tzero, ECI Telematics, Symantec and Micom.

Sekar has a M.S in Mechanical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and a B.S (Honors) in Production Engineering from REC-Trichy (University of Madras), India.

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