Technology >> CEO Interviews >> March 27, 2000
ROBERT COACKLEY is President and CEO of Larscom Incorporated. He has an
extensive engineering background, with 40 years of experience in data
networking and telecommunications. Previously with INRANGE Technologies
Corporation (formerly known as General Signal Networks, Inc.), he served
as President and CEO since 1991. Prior to that, Mr. Coackley was
President of LP COM, Mountain View, California, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Tektronix Inc. that specialized in protocol analysis.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Coackley spent 15 years in a variety of
senior positions with Hewlett-Packard, both in the UK and the US, where
he managed both the design of telecommunications products and the
operation of the large corporate networks in which they are used. Before
that, he was Managing Director of Telspec Ltd., a manufacturer of
telecommunications line equipment in the UK. Educated in England, Mr.
Coackley graduated with Honors in Electrical Engineering from City
University in London. He is a Fellow in the British Institution of
Electrical Engineers, and is a Chartered Engineer. The early stages of
his career were shaped by British Telecom where he was trained in a wide
range of telecommunications operations from switching to satellite
transmission. After some 12 years with British Telecom, he worked in the
aerospace industry and developed some of the experimental hardware used
in European and US space programs. He holds a number of patents in
telecommunications testing and magnetometry, has testified before
Congress as an expert on the telecommunications industry, is a Governor
of the Electronics Industries Alliance and is on the Board of Directors
of the Telecommunications Industry Association. Currently, he chairs the
Technical Committee, which oversees standards activity for the TIA and
the industry. He is also a member of the Moorestown Rotary Club and the
Union League of Philadelphia. His wife knows the electronics industry
well, is heavily involved in community activities, enjoys home crafts
and tolerates her husband's commitment to his work. Mr. Coackley and his
wife have one daughter. Profile
Incorporated.
Mr. Coackley: Larscom is, today, a significant telecommunications
company delivering products to service
