Leadership

Andy Gottlieb, CEO
John Dickey, Vice President of Engineering
Keith Morris, Vice President of Marketing
Tom Pettigrew, Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Andy Gottlieb
CEO

Andy brings over 20 years of network industry engineering and marketing leadership experience to Talari Networks. A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, he founded Talari Networks after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Andy also served on the board of LVL7 Systems, a network processing software company. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford 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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Tom Pettigrew
Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Tom has more than 20 years experience helping companies succeed in worldwide markets through his efforts in direct sales, building sales teams, strategic alliances, OEM partnerships, channel sales and international development. In his nearly four years at network attached storage vendor Isilon Systems, Tom forged Isilon's Smart Partner channel and OEM programs and established Isilon's operations in Japan/Korea, Europe and Asia Pacific and grew partner sales from less than 10% to over 60% of sales. Tom joined Isilon early, and was there through their very successful IPO in December, 2006. Tom joined Isilon from F5 Networks, where he again was an early employee, pre-IPO, and spent more than six years establishing global relationships with companies such as Dell, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NTT, EDS and Nokia as well as assisting the establishment of F5's international operations. While at F5 Networks, Tom grew channel sales to 90 percent of the company's total sales worldwide, and in 2003 was named a top channel executive in the United States by Computer Reseller News. Previously, Tom held sales positions at NetFRAME, Inc., and Sequent Computer Systems (acquired by IBM). Tom received a bachelor's degree in economics as well as an MBA from the University of Washington.
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