Chase Bailey has over 30 years of experience in the networking and IT industry; he sits on the board of several technology companies and is an advisor to many Venture Capital Funds.

Chase was most recently Director of New Technologies and Chief Scientist in Business Development at Cisco Systems, where he assessed and analysed emerging technologies and markets for the determination of Cisco s business plans and strategies. He also headed the University Research program funding and assisting in leading edge research at major Universities around the world.

Prior to Cisco, Chase was Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Efficient Networks, an ATM and DSL technology supplier of chips and adapters. Efficient went public in 1998 and was later sold to Siemens. Earlier he was involved in a few startups such as Silicon Graphics, Forward Technology, JCS and others. His technical background is as a software developer of operating systems, networking stacks and drivers and more recently as a developer of ASICs specific to networking solutions.

He taught Internetworking and Network Security at Santa Clara University in the graduate program, School of Engineering. He has patents in ASIC design in networking and was the first to port Unix to the Motorola 68000 in 1979. He was a member of the IEEE, IETF and ACM and has chaired and authored many technical groups and specifications for networking and operating systems.