Board of Directors
Management Directors
John Elms, CEO, Azalea Networks
John Elms is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Azalea Networks. Before joining Azalea, John was president and CEO of SpectraLink Corporation (now a part of Polycom), a NASDAQ-listed company until its sale in March of 2007. Under his leadership, SpectraLink became an OEM supplier to industry leaders such as Alcatel, Avaya, NEC, Nortel and Siemens, with sales growing from $71 million in 2003 to $145 million ending in 2006; approximately a third of its revenues came from outside of North America.
John began his tenure at SpectraLink as Vice President of Operations. Prior to joining SpectraLink, John served in several sales and service senior leadership positions at PictureTel Corporation in both the U.S. and Hong Kong. He holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Harvard University and is conversant in Mandarin Chinese.
Fang Wu, Founder & EVP Products, Azalea NetworksFang Wu is founder, EVP Products and Director of Azalea Networks. Fang has more than 17 years of engineering & management experience and has filed more than 30 patents.
Fang began his career designing and implementing DSP real-time Operating Systems. Following that, he worked at Compression Labs as a key engineer working on the world’s first MPEG-2 digital video encoder for DirecTV. Later, Fang started V-Bits (video compression company) as co-founder and VP of Engineering. In 1999 V-Bits was acquired by Cisco for $128 million. Following the acquisition, Fang worked at Cisco as senior manager for ISO-certified products and successfully shipped $20M V-Bits products before co-founding Azalea. Fang received a BSEE from Tsinghua University and an MSEE from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Frank Wang, Founder & VP of Engineering
Frank (Xiaodong) Wang has sixteen years of industrial experience in engineering management, and software & system development. He has been VP of Engineering for Acceleratemobile, Inc. in the U.S., a maker of wireless TCP gateways to accelerate TCP/IP data traffic on cellular mobile networks.
Frank received his BSEE in Radio Engineering from Tsinghua University, and his MSEE from Colorado State University. He also holds an MS degree from the Engineering School at Stanford University.
Independent Directors
Frank Marshall, Former Chairman, NetScreenFrank Marshall is a private investor of Azalea Networks and former Chairman of Netscreen, a co-founder of Convex Computer, former Cisco VP of engineering, and former board member and acting-CEO of Covad.
Chun Chiu, Former CEO, Quality SemiconductorChun Chiu is a private investor of Azalea Networks and former co-founder and CEO of Quality Semiconductor Corporation and co-founder of Integrated Device Technology (IDT).
Samuel Chen, Chairman, RaysonSamuel Chen is a private investor of Azalea Networks and current chairman of Rayson Technology Co. (Taiwan)