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Floyd J. Backes | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Backes has been an engineer and architect in the computer networking business for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Autocell Laboratories (formerly Propagate Networks), he was vice president of strategy and architecture at Nortel Networks. Backes came to Nortel Networks from 3Com, where he was CTO of the switching division. Prior to 3Com, he held senior technical positions at Bay Networks and at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he implemented the world's first wire-speed spanning tree Ethernet bridge. Backes has contributed extensively to LAN and bridge-related standards development in IEEE 802, the ATM Forum, the IETF, and ISO/IEC. He is currently a voting member of IEEE 802.1 and a voting liaison to 802.11. Backes has 10 patents issued and numerous patents pending related to LANs and LAN switching. He earned his bachelor's of engineering technology, cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire. | 