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Mr. Walker’s 25-year history in the high-tech industry began at Hewlett Packard where he rose from IC designer to the manager of a design group working on a CMOS chip design for handheld computers. At Hewlett Packard, Mr. Walker was also part of the team researching the design of analog chips in CMOS. In 1981, Mr. Walker joined Digital Equipment Corporation where he served in several positions including vice president of manufacturing technology, vice president of network engineering and vice president and general manager of the network products business where he successfully drove revenue growth rates up to mid-double-digits. Mr. Walker co-founded and served as chief executive officer of C-Port Corporation, a pioneer in the network processor industry, which was acquired by Motorola for $430 million in 2000. Following the acquisition, he served as vice president of strategy for Motorola’s Network and Computing Systems Group and then vice president and general manager of the Network and Computing Systems Group until 2002. Mr. Walker has been awarded five patents and has been published in numerous industry publications. He also serves as a director of McData Corporation, Propagate Networks, Massachusetts Telecommunications Council and Hopkins School (Connecticut). Mr. Walker received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and he received a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). | 