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Mr. Dang is President of Strategic Investments for Curo Capital LLC, and Co-Manager of the Curo Capital Appreciation Fund I LLC. He is also President of Alternative Investments for Trymetris Capital Management LLC, and Co-Manager of the Trymetris Capital Fund I LLC. Currently Mr. Dang serves as Vice Chairman of Caneum, Inc. (OTC BB: CANM), a business process and information technology outsourcing services company, and Director of Trycera Financial, Inc. (OTC BB: TRYF), a financial services company specializing in customized and turnkey prepaid MasterCard© and Visa© debit cards and catalog shopping cards. He also remains an Advisor of Bitfone, Inc. (acquired by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) in December 2006), Vootage, Inc. and Edgewater Networks, Inc., in addition to continuing as a Limited Partner of New Corridor Development LP, an Austin, Texas, based real estate development company.
Previously, Mr. Dang was a Director of Engineering at Linksys, a subdivision of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), overseeing the development of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) products and strategies. At Linksys, he grew the VoIP product line from $0 to $150M in 12 months, making it the fastest-growing product line in Linksys or Cisco history to achieve 1M ports shipped. Mr. Dang came to Cisco through its acquisition of Vovida Networks, where he served as Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.
In the past, Mr. Dang was an Angel Investor in Vonage (NYSE: VG) and an Angel Investor and Advisor to both Telverse Communications, a next-generation advanced services ASP focused on wholesale communications services for carriers, service providers and value-added resellers, which was acquired in July 2003 by Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT), and vCIS, a proactive software behavior analysis and anti-virus security company, which was acquired by Internet Security Systems (NASDAQ: ISSX) in October 2002, before it was subsequently acquired by IBM (NYSE: IBM) in August 2006. Additionally, he was a Founding Member of the Technical Advisory Board of both the Open Multimedia Protocol Alliance (OMPA) and the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC) in 1999, which were subsequently merged and scaled to nearly 200 companies prior to renaming itself to become the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) in 2003.
Previously, Mr. Dang worked in various operational and technical roles with Nortel Networks and Unisys. He has over 15 years of experience in the communications industry and has also co-authored a book entitled Practical VoIP that is currently being used as a core textbook for teaching VoIP system development at universities worldwide. Mr. Dang holds patents on display screen management apparatus (1997) and caller IP (1998) and has three other patents currently pending. He holds an MS in computer science from Stanford University and a BS in computer engineering from the University of California at San Diego. Mr. Dang resides in Newport Beach, California, with his wife Linh and their three young children.
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