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Former Ameritech Executive Joins CopperCom Board; Bob Humes Augments an Already Distinguished Board
02/22/99
Business Wire
(Copyright (c) 1999, Business Wire)
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 1999--CopperCom Inc., a Silicon Valley company that is Giving Voice to DSL, today announced that Bob Humes of JK&B Capital has joined its Board of Directors. Humes, a 32-year telecommunications veteran, and Andrew Fillat of Advent International, join a distinguished group of Board members that includes Charlie Bass and John Cioffi. JK&B Capital and Advent International invested in CopperCom's second round of funding (see related news release).
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About CopperCom's Board of Directors
In addition to Cynthia Ringo, CEO and President of CopperCom, the Board of Directors includes the following industry notables:
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-- John Cioffi is known in the industry as the godfather of DSL. He founded Amati Communications Corp. in 1991, and served as the chief technology officer until Texas Instruments purchased Amati in 1998. Through Cioffi's leadership, DMT technology is now the foundation of DSL products. Amati delivered the first DMT modems into the market in 1993, and licensed the technology to all of the major DSL vendors in the market including Alcatel, Motorola, TI, ADI, Pairgain, NEC, 3Com, Nortel, and ECI. Cioffi worked as a modem designer at Bell Laboratories from 1978-1984, and as a disk read-channel researcher at IBM from 1984-1986. He has been on the faculty of Stanford since 1986, where he is now a tenured associate professor. Cioffi's particular expertise lies in the area of high-performance digital transmission and storage systems where he has over 100 publications, and 30 patents. Cioffi is also a board member of C-Cube, Charter Venture Capital, and the National Research Council.
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