Take a close look at Com21's Board of Directors:
PETER D. FENNER. Mr. Fenner has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Com21 since February 1996. From January 1989 through April 1992, he served as President of the Transmission Systems Business Unit of AT&T Network Systems (Lucent) and Corporate Officer at AT&T. From April 1992 to February 1996, Mr. Fenner was an independent consultant. From February 1986 through December 1988, Mr. Fenner was Vice President, Product Planning for AT&T's Network Systems Division. Mr. Fenner is Director of CorNet Information Ltd. Mr. Fenner received an S.M. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Sloan Fellow, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University.
PAUL BARAN. Mr. Baran has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors since Com21's inception in June 1992. He is presently retired. Mr. Baran was chosen by Communications Week and Data Communications as one of the top 25 visionaries in the data ommunications industry and was recipient of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation Pioneer Award (1993), the Marconi International Fellowship Award (1991), the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Inc. ("IEEE") Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1990), the ACM SIG/Communications Award (1989) and the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Armstrong Award (1987). He co-founded Equatorial Communications, Packet Technologies, Telebit Corporation and Metricom, Inc. Mr. Baran is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the AAAS. Mr. Baran received an M.S. in Computers from the University of California, Los Angeles, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Dr.Sci. in Engineering (Hon.) from Drexel University.
C. RICHARD KRAMLICH. Mr. Kramlich has been a Director of Com21 since May 1994. Mr. Kramlich is the co-founder and has been General Partner of New Enterprise Associates since 1978. He is a Director of Ascend Communications, Inc., Chalone, Inc., Healtheon Corporation, Lumisys, Inc., and Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mr. Kramlich received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from Northwestern University.
ROBERT C. HAWK. Mr. Hawk has been a Director of Com21 since January 1997. Mr. Hawk has been an independent business consultant since April 1997. From April 1996 through March 1997, he was President of U.S. West multimedia, a cable company. From April 1986 through March 1996, he was the President of Carrier Division, U.S. West Communications, a telecommunications Company. He is a Director of PairGain Technologies, COVAD Communications, Inc., Xylan Corp.,
Concord Corp., and RADCom Corp. Mr. Hawk received an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco and a B.B.A. from the University of Iowa.
WILLIAM R. HEARST III. Mr. Hearst has been a Director of Com21 since April 1998. Mr. Hearst has also been a Director of @Home Corporation since August 1995 and has served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of @Home since July 1996. He has been a general partner of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, a venture capital firm, since January 1995. From May 1995 to July 1996, he was the founding Chief Executive Officer of @Home. Before joining KPCB, Mr. Hearst was editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner for ten years. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and a Trustee of the Carnegie Institute of Washington and the California Academy of Sciences. Mr. Hearst holds an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University.
ROBERT A. HOFF. Mr. Hoff has been a Director since May 1994. He has been a general partner at CrossPoint Venture Partners since 1983. Mr. Hoff serves as a Director of PairGain Inc., Onyx Acceptance Corp. and US Web Corporation. Mr. Hoff received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Business Administration from Bucknell University.
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