Founded in 2004 by former Cisco Systems executive and Novell Executive Director, Jeff Turner, nuMetra, Inc. is a provider of an open-source, bandwidth mediation system, whose technology will enable ISPs to: 1) Offer broadband customers a superior video streaming experience; 2) Provide their media customers with a new offering of premium-priced services such as copyright enforcement, and; 3) Decrease their costs and maximize profits via increased control of their networks.
nuMetra’s technology shifts the economic and logistical burden of this growth away from ISP’s, while simultaneously addressing ongoing concerns from content companies and the entertainment industry regarding intellectual property and copyright protection. It also enables ISP’s to offer different levels of service which addresses the shrinking margins of their current business models.
Management Team
Jeff Turner, Founder/Chairman
A Silicon Valley veteran and network management expert, Jeff Turner has led Marketing and Engineering teams at the premiere firms of Cisco Systems, Novell, and Hewlett Packard. His early work with Hewlett Packard provided him with a deep knowledge of LAN technologies, TCP and low level network traffic. As a Member of the HP Technical Staff (MTS), Turner distinguished himself by developing real-time recognition algorithms for network analysis products. During his tenure at Novell, the CEO entrusted Turner with the product direction and strategy of their Netware and Network Management lines. Jeff’s management of QoS technology with Cisco Network Management Group led to his ground-breaking discoveries about broadband traffic characteristics that eventually led to his vision for his own company, nuMetra.
Jeff holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Institute of Technology at CWRU. Prior to CWRU Jeff attended Dickinson College, a liberal arts school in Carlisle Pennsylvania.
Scott Landman, Vice President Business Development
As a 17-year veteran of the computer networking industry, Scott Landman has evolved into a specialist in the areas of strategic alliances, market development, and strategy. Currently, he has global responsibility for business development, which includes creating and managing partnerships in the areas of technology, content, and public policy.
Earlier in his career he had been employed by network equipment manufacturers, including Lannet, Xylan, and Cisco in marketing and analyst relations roles. In addition to his work within the networking space, Scott gained experience working for market research firms as a quantitative and qualitative industry analyst.
Rounding out his career, he has been the the founder and proprietor of two coffee houses.
Scott holds an B.A. in Psychology from Allegheny College.
Anees Narsinh, Vice President, Engineering
Anees Narsinh is a Senior Level Engineering Leader with over 15 years of management experience in companies ranging from start-ups to Global Corporations.
He distinguished himself at Alcatel/Lucent/Xylan where he delivered multiple generations of high-density products with evolving features that included carrier-class redundancy and support for real-time services. His leadership of the 124 employees in cross-functional teams resulted in a flagship product that Internet Telephony Magazine named Product of The Year.
Success came early for Narsinh, who delivered the first working prototype for start-up company NetVantage that went on to win Best Workgroup Product by Data Communication and which set the stage for their IPO and subsequent acquisition by Cabletron. The flagship database computer he delivered to AT&T/NCR/Teradata is considered the company’s best developed product in history and responsible for the acquisition by AT&T. Mr Narsinh is the author of seven U.S Patents including 6,389,035 & 6,088,745; 20060140128, 20050201415, 20050198258, 20050141510, 20030016625 (pending).
Anees holds an MSEE from University of California, Santa Barbara and is a distinguished member of the Alcatel Technical Academy.
Engineering Team
Desmond Borresen, Software Architect
A Software Architect and Engineer with more than 20 years experience, Desmond was co-founder and Software Architect of Xceler Corporation, a company dedicated to the development of the industry’s highest speed Internet security appliance. While there, he oversaw eight employees and designed and implemented Linux development environments, based on embedded Debian package. While at Alcatel as a Software Architect, he helped to specify and develop: the company’s flagship switching-engine ASIC chipset, a software emulation of an ASCI implementation of TCP/UDP, a software emulation of the systems queue management (deficit round robin) and porting a stripped/embedded Unix kernel/boot environment to twin Sparc cores embedded in a very large switching ASIC. His early years were spent with Retix, Inc. developing software for Ethernet and ATM switches.
Desmond holds a Bsc in Computer Science from University of Essex, UK and an MBA from Tanaka Business School at Imperial College, London.
Ajay Raval, Director, Systems QA
Ajay is a customer-focused, award-winning, creative, and action-oriented Quality Assurance professional with over fifteen years of Quality Assurance and Test Engineering experience in the networking industry. His seasoned managerial and hands-on contributions in planning, building and leading domestic and international quality assurance teams make him an ideal member for a startup environment.
He began his career at Unisys Corporation where he served as a senior software and testing engineer for six years. While there, he was twice awarded the Excellence Award for his outstanding contributions to product releases. Since then, he has worked at a number of organizations including Alcatel (Team Leader), Occam / Accelerated Networks (Manager, Quality Assurance), and Micom Communications (Principal Test Engineer). For over six years, he worked as a Senior Quality Assurance Manager for Ixia, where he was recognized for managing a QA team (up to 25 QAEs across three continents) for the Ixia application which generated an average of $4m in revenue per quarter.
Ajay received his B.S. and M.S. (equivalent) in Electrical Engineering from Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute (Bombay, India).