Sesame Networks Management Team

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Management Team

Sesame Networks has assembled a world class team. The executive management team has broad and extensive experience in telecommunications, finance, start-up businesses, marketing, technology operations and channel management. Executives hail from industry leaders including Bell Canada, Nortel Networks, Stentor, SaskTel, Wholesale Telecom, Bayline Communications, eCharge, Fonorola, Teleglobe, Bell Nexxia, and NORDX/CDT.

Tom Hope – President & Chief Executive Officer
Clifford Grossner, Ph.D. – Vice President, Product Marketing
Warren F. Porter – Vice President, Sales
Bill Daicos – CFO, and Vice President Administration
Philippe Labrosse – Vice President, Technology

	Tom Hope (Founder) President and CEO. Tom has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry including executive management positions at Bell Canada, Canada's largest communications provider of wired and wireless telephone services, Internet access, high-speed data services and directories, and Stentor Canadian Network Management which manages and monitors the inter-provincial networks and North American interconnection facilities of the Stentor companies. Prior to founding Sesame Networks in February 2003, Tom served as Chief Technology Officer at Bell Canada where he spearheaded the company’s aggressive high speed DSL Internet roll-out. In addition, he has successfully led and delivered major telecom expansion projects at Bell Nexxia, SaskTel, and Leicester Cable in the UK Tom has a B.Sc. Eng (Hons) from King’s College, London, a Diploma in Management Studies from Portsmouth University. He is a Member of the Ontario Association of Professional Engineers and IEEE. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Canadian Communication Research Centre.
	Clifford Grossner Ph.D. Vice President, Product Marketing. At Sesame, Cliff is responsible for product vision, go-to-market strategy and product positioning for the company’s products, media and analyst relations Cliff has over 10 years of experience in bringing new products to market in information and communications technology industries. Most recently, he was the Vice President, of Product Line Management for NewStep Networks, a successful telecom start-up. Cliff has also served in a variety of senior positions at both March Networks and Nortel. Previous to Nortel, Cliff worked as a Research Scientist and Faculty Lecturer in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Computing, and Computer Architecture. Cliff has a Ph.D. from McGill University and M.Sc. Computer Science from Concordia University, Montreal.
	Warren F. Porter Vice President, Sales. At Sesame Networks Warren is responsible for all revenue generating activities including direct and channel sales. He is also responsible for implementing all sales systems and processes. Warren brings extensive sales and channel management experience in telecommunications to Sesame’s management team. During his 15 years within the industry, he has defined and executed successful sales strategies resulting in strong revenue growth. Prior to Sesame, he was Director of Business Development for a major customer service measurement company and prior to that was Vice President of Carrier Services at Contour Telecom, a division of AT&T Canada, now Allstream. While at Contour Warren negotiated Contour’s carrier agreements resulting in direct saving of over $1Million per year. Previous to Contour, Warren was President of Wholesale Telecom Inc. which successfully represented International telecommunication carriers to Canadian companies. He also consulted to companies including Navaho Networks and eCharge Corporation. While at eCharge he successfully negotiated a major agreement with Korea Telecom leading to the implementation of eCharge’s eCommerce service in Korea. Warren began his career in telecommunications with Fonorola, where he ultimately assumed responsibility for wholesale services in Western Canada. While in this position he increased Fonorola’s wholesale revenue base tenfold from $2.2M to over $20M within a single year. Warren has completed business management courses at the University of Toronto.
	Bill Daicos CFO and Vice President Administration. Bill joined the Sesame team in April of 2004. In his role as CFO & Vice President of Administration, he is responsible for finance, legal, IT, human resources and facilities. Prior to joining Sesame, Bill was a partner at Toll Cross Investments and worked for 10 years in the telecommunications industry in a variety of back office operations and finance roles. Most recently, he was Executive Director of Finance & Customer Service at Teleglobe. Prior to Teleglobe, he served as the Director of Finance at Bell Nexxia, and Director of Network Cost Control at fonorola. Bill has a joint honours degree (BA) in economics and history from McGill University.
	Philippe Labrosse Vice President of Technology. Philippe joined Sesame in January of 2004 with over 15 years of experience in research, development and project management in the telecommunications industry. As Vice President of Technology, he is responsible for the company's long-term technology strategy. Prior to joining Sesame, Philippe was Project Director for the DataValet Business Unit at NORDX/CDT, a worldwide leader in cabling infrastructure. Philippe was responsible for driving the Wi-Fi service management vision at DataValet. . Philippe’s background also includes stints at Mux Lab, a maker of networking appliances and as Vice President of Research and Development of NHC Communications. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and an MBA from Hautes Études Commerciales also in Montreal.