Robert Madge

ROBERT MADGE, Chairman and CEO, founded Madge Networks in 1986, and in
the early years, ran the business from the family farm in
Buckinghamshire, England. He saw the opportunity to take on IBM by
introducing technological innovation, which helped to establish quickly
a strong customer base. Under Robert’s direction, the company has played
a leading role in the development of the networking technology industry,
and the company went public on NASDAQ in 1993. Today, he is at the helm
of a global company that is leading a portfolio of the world’s most
demanding customers towards the converged future of one network over
Internet Protocol (IP). Robert is one of the industry’s most influential
figures driving network computing standards. As an industry advocate of
high speed networking technologies, Robert continues to drive standards
for multivendor interoperability. The company is a founding member of
the High Speed Token Ring Alliance, an organisation set up in 1997 to
ensure rapid standards adoption, product development and customer
education. In addition, Robert previously founded the Open Token
Foundation, which promoted consistent, multivendor interoperability
standards for Token Ring LAN technology. Before starting Madge Networks,
Robert served as Technical Director of Intelligent Software, Ltd. of
England, a developer of computer programs and products ranging from
custom chips and hand-held devices to computer systems. He has also held
the position of General Manager at Enterprise Computers, Ltd., a British
manufacturer of personal computers.