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Michael Hatfield - President and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder, President and CEO
Michael Hatfield is a veteran of three successful communications systems start-ups. Most recently Michael was founder and CEO of Calix (NYSE: CALX), a publicly held communication systems company. Calix is a leading provider of high-speed access systems for communications service providers.
Prior to Calix, Michael was co-founder and COO of Cerent, a leading provider of high-speed fiber-optics systems which was acquired by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) for $7B. Michael's initial start-up success came as an early team member and vice-president of marketing for Advanced Fibre Communications (AFC). During his tenure, AFC went from start-up to a publicly traded enterprise and was subsequently purchased by Tellabs (NASDAQ: TLAB).
He has also served in management roles at DSC Communications and Ameritech. Michael has a BSEE in Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Economics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and an MBA in Finance from Indiana University.