Technology >> CEO Interviews >> December 19, 2003
BILL STENSRUD is President & CEO of Ensemble Communications Inc. Mr.
Stensrud graduated from MIT in 1971 majoring in Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science. He held research positions at MIT and AT&T and
then held a variety of management positions of increasing responsibility
at AT&T and ROLM. In 1985 he became the founding Vice President of
Marketing and Business Development for StrataCom Inc. Mr. Stensrud was
responsible for the marketing organization and for the development of
the OEM and international channels of distribution. He also played a key
role in the creation and development of the frame relay market. Mr.
Stensrud became the President of Primary Access in San Diego in 1992.
Primary Access was acquired by 3Com in June, 1995. After the acquisition
Mr. Stensrud ran a group of WAN business units for 3Com, including
Primary Access. In 1996 Mr. Stensrud was involved in the leveraged buy-
out of Paradyne Corp. from Lucent Technologies. He was both an investor
and an active manager of the new Paradyne Corporation. He served on the
Board of Directors of Paradyne Corporation, GlobeSpan Incorporated and
Juniper Networks, a Silicon Valley networking equipment company. In 1997
Mr. Stensrud joined Enterprise Partners as a General Partner. Enterprise
Partners is the premier venture firm focusing on high technology and
health related businesses and has a leading position in San Diego and
Southern California. Since joining enterprise Partners, Mr. Stensrud has
made seed or first round investments in many early stage companies in
networking equipment, software or services areas. Profile
Mr. Stensrud: Ensemble is a company pioneering a new category of
products which we call the Metro-Ethernet Hybrid Fiber Wireless
