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Management

Roland Acra

President and CEO

Roland Acra joined Arch Rock as President and CEO in December 2005. Prior to Arch Rock, he was President and CEO at Procket Networks, a high-end Core Internet Router manufacturer, which he successfully led to an acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2004. Prior to that, Roland held several senior management positions at Cisco Systems from 1991 to 2003, including Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Group Vice President and General Manager of the Public Carrier IP Group, General Manager of the Remote Access Business Unit and Technical Director of Cisco in EMEA. Prior to Cisco, Roland held engineering development and technical leadership positions, at Bridge Communications and 3Com Corporation from 1986 to 1988 and at Interphase Corporation from 1989 to 1991. Roland holds Diplome d'Ingenieur degrees from Ecole Polytechnique and from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (Paris, France) and a Master of Science degree in Statistics from Texas A&M University.

David E. Culler

Co-Founder and CTO

Dr. Culler comes to Arch Rock from the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he has served as Professor of Computer Science since 1989. He was the Principal Investigator of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Network Embedded Systems Technology project (DARPA NEST) that created the open platform for wireless sensor networks based on TinyOS, and was the founding Director of Intel Research, Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow and was selected in Scientific American's 'Top 50 Researchers' and in Technology Review's '10 Technologies that Will Change the World'. He was awarded the NSF Presidential Faculty fellowship and NSF Presidential Young Investigator award. He has done seminal work on networks of small, embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale internet services, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming languages, and high performance communication, and specifically includes TinyOS, PlanetLab, Networks of Workstations (NOW), and Active Messages. He has served on Technical Advisory Boards for several companies, including Inktomi and ExpertCity (now CITRIX on-line). David received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in 1980, and M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1985 and 1989.

Wei Hong

Co-Founder and VP Engineering

Dr. Hong is responsible for all engineering related issues at Arch Rock. Prior to co-founding Arch Rock, he was Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator at Intel Research Berkeley where he led the sensor network project. His pioneering work on data management in sensor networks helped lead to two widely used and cited systems: the TinyDB distributed query processing system on TinyOS and the Tiny Application Sensor Kit (TASK), a turn-key system for rapid sensor network deployment. He gained extensive experiences in real-world sensor network applications by leading several large deployment efforts at Intel Research. Prior to joining Intel Research, he co-founded and was Chief Architect for two innovative database startup companies: Illustra Information Technology Inc. (acquired by Informix Corp., now IBM) and Cohera Corp. (acquired by PeopleSoft, now Oracle). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley as well as M.E., B.E. and B.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Joe Huber

VP Sales

Joe Huber joined Arch Rock in March of 2007 and is responsible for sales worldwide. Joe comes to Arch Rock from Packet Design a maker of route analytics systems for managing enterprise and service provider networks, where he had held the positions of vice president of worldwide sales and vice president of business development since 2001. Previously he held sales and marketing positions at Cisco Systems, Precept Software, Network Computing Devices, 3Com and Bridge Communications. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati.

Brian Bohlig

VP Marketing

Brian Bohlig is responsible for all aspects of marketing at Arch Rock. Prior to Arch Rock, Brian was Director of Corporate Marketing at VMware where he led the company's outbound marketing efforts and was responsible for the creation of VMworld, the industry's largest virtualization conference. While at VMware, Brian also served as Director of Workstation Product Management where he led the product planning and go-to-market strategy for the company's award-winning Workstation product line. Prior to VMware, he held a number of senior roles in product management, business development and operations at Corio and Sun Microsystems. Brian began his career as an investment banker at Montgomery Securities. Brian holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Chris Brozek

VP Operations

Chris Brozek joined Arch Rock as Vice President of Operations in December 2007. Prior to Arch Rock, Chris was Director of Operations at Omneon, the leading provider of networked media storage and servers for production and broadcast. Chris built Omneon's supply chain, leading Omneon through 13 quarters of consecutive growth. Prior to Omneon,he held a number of management positions in manufacturing at Cisco Systems. Chris began his carreer as US Navy Submarine Officer and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University.