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Leadership

Emerick Woods, President & CEO
John Dickey, Vice President of Engineering
Keith Morris, Vice President of Marketing

Emerick Woods
President & CEO

Emerick has led and founded a number of early stage high-technology companies as well as completed two initial public offerings. Before joining Talari Networks, he served most recently as CEO of Global IP Solutions (GIPS), a publicly listed company focused on voice and video media processing for IP networks, which he sold to Google after increasing revenue by 400 percent within 18 months. Previously, Emerick served as chief executive officer and completed the initial public offering for Vicinity Corporation, a publicly traded company—subsequently acquired by Microsoft—providing a location-based services platform to many of the world’s leading brands. He has also been chief executive at several other venture-backed companies—a number of which were acquired—focused on the mobile carrier, location-based services, and network infrastructure markets and has held a variety of general management and executive positions at Quarterdeck, Symantec, Central Point and Microcom. He began his career in consulting where he held positions at McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen & Hamilton. Emerick holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a B.Sc., Computer Science degree from Yale University.
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John Dickey
Vice President of Engineering

Before co-founding Talari Networks, John was senior director of software engineering at Applied Microcircuits (AMCC), where he led the architecture, design, and development of a broad array of switching and routing protocol software implementations for embedded systems. John joined AMCC upon its acquisition of MMC Networks, the pioneering maker of network-optimized processors (NPUs). He was also the founding Chair of the Network Processing Forum industry standards organization's Software Working Group and holds patents in multiple areas of networking technology. Prior to MMC, John held a variety of engineering and management positions at IBM and was distinguished as an Advisory Engineer. John earned a degree cum laude in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Keith Morris
Vice President of Marketing

With more than 20 years in networking industry marketing and engineering roles, Keith provides Talari with his strong sense of strategic planning in leading the company's marketing, product management, and business development efforts. Prior to Talari, Keith was most recently vice president of marketing and customer engineering for multimedia routing technology vendor Ubicom. He formerly served as senior director of product management and marketing at Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC), where he was instrumental in developing AMCC's broadband access strategy and securing the company's position as the market share leader in the network processor market. Previously, Keith was director of marketing at network processor pioneer MMC Networks (acquired by AMCC) and also held positions in engineering and management at Fujitsu and GEC/Plessey. Keith holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) degree in Electronic Computer Systems and a Post Graduate Diploma in Engineering from the University of Salford, U.K.
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