Primary Job Title President Primary Organization NTT Global Networks
Gender Male
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Ron, one of the founding team members of Virtela, is president of the company.
Ron has an extensive background in developing breakthrough technology solutions in the fields of cloud computing and high performance networking.
Prior to Virtela, Ron was a senior member of the technical staff at Qwest and a R&D group leader at Lawrence
Livermore National Labs (LLNL). While at Qwest, he drove the industry's first all-optical network strategy and solution. During his years at LLNL, he led R&D projects for multiple DoE, DoD, and DARPA programs and received DOE's Award of Excellence. He holds five patents.
Ron holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.
