Steven Rogers
Steven Rogers is a serial entrepreneur focused on assisting founders to set meaningful objectives and establish strategic plans to achieve them. Prior to CertusNet Steve has participated in three start-ups.
He was a co-founder and COO of Carina Networks. Here he assembled a team that developed and marketed a unique patented network architecture capable of delivering broadband services to the home via the utility power line. He also led negotiations for a joint development agreement with a major utility company. He followed this with the COO role at Alphasight that developed a chip designed to switch packet, cell and TDM traffic with equal efficiency. Alphasight qualified for a $2M NIST ATP grant in 2004. He then joined NetImmune as CEO; a company designing and building an Internet security product. NetImmune was purchased and renamed Riorey in 2006.
Prior to Carina Networks, Steve held a variety of leadership roles at Nortel Networks including VP and General Manager of Nortel's Metro Optical Division and General Manager of the Wireline Access Division. At the Metro Optical Division he introduced a new product into an existing market and took 25% market share from the incumbents in 3 years. This was achieved through a more compelling value proposition in the eyes of the customers. At the Wireline Access Division Steve managed a team of 700 people with revenues in excess of $1B. During his time at Nortel he built many teams for the specific purpose of bringing innovative new products to market with an associated profitable P&L. He developed a new process for identifying and nurturing new ideas and piloted a new Time-To-Market initiative adopted by Nortel. He worked with a variety of customers as partners in these endeavors both in North America and internationally through assignments in Europe and Asia. In North America he worked closely with all the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) at various times to introduce new products.
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