| California Polytechnic State University, Bachelor of Science | |
| Industrial Technology/Management |
Michael Cerda has a long career in breaking new ground for startups and bringing larger companies thru major inflections. Cerda is currently VP of Product in Communications at Myspace, as a result of a technology asset and team sale of Threadbox, where he was co-founder and CEO. Cerda incubated the real-time messaging service (fka Cc:Betty) as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Venrock. Cerda was Vice President of Sales and Business Development of web voice company Jajah, following a three year effort as co-founder and CEO of social communications company Jangl (sold to Live Universe 2008). Prior to Jangl, Cerda co-founded consumer VoIP service and device company, Ooma (privately held), and served as the company’s original CEO.
Prior to Ooma, Cerda worked in management and key roles in several successful startups: director of business and corporate development at Trapeze Networks (sold to Belden 2008) , focused on fund raising, partnerships, customer development; director of corporate development at Procket Networks (sold to Cisco 2004), focused on fund raising, marketing and customer development; director of sales (and prior account manager) at Redback Networks (IPO 1999), focusing on launching new products into emerging service provider markets, regional sales manager at Lucent by way of the Livingston acquisition (sold in 1997), and business development at Farallon/Netopia (IPO 1995).
Michael earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology/Management from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. He lives with his family in the East San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys playing music in El Desayuno.
