Technology >> CEO Interviews >> September 3, 2004
JAMES W. VOGT is President and Chief Executive Officer of Trapeze
Networks. Mr. Vogt brings a wealth of business and technology experience
to Trapeze. Before joining Trapeze, he was president and CEO of Ingrian
Networks, where he led the privately held secure appliance firm through
two rounds of funding, built up the company's internal infrastructure
and established a solid customer base. Prior to Ingrian Networks, he was
president of the Nortel Networks small business solutions group. Before
Northern Telecom merged with Bay Networks to become Nortel, Jim was the
vice president and general manager of Bay's workgroup product and
distributed network systems divisions, and the vice president of product
management for Bay's desktop products group. He earned a BS degree in
electrical engineering from the University of Nevada and an MBA from
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif. Profile
TWST: We'd like to begin with a brief historical sketch of the companyand a picture of things as they are now.
Mr. Vogt: Trapeze Networks was founded in the spring of 2002 and has
received