Kim Niederman, CEO and President
Kim has more than 20 years of successful leadership experience in the high-tech industry, having held various senior management positions at Polycom, Inc., Cisco, FORE Systems and Wang Laboratories. Most recently, Kim was SVP, Worldwide Sales at Polycom, Inc. increasing sales in three years from $360M to over $700M by creating a new Sales and Channel strategy.  Mr. Niederman also was CEO of LongBoard, Inc., a leader in software-based Class 5 IP services platforms and CEO of Magellan Network Systems, one of the first Calling Card Platforms.  Prior to LongBoard, he was Vice President of Sales for start-up RadioLAN, the first developer of 10MB WLANs and Vice President of Sales at FORE Systems, where he was responsible for doubling sales in excess of $225M within twelve months and merging FORE's $800 million acquisition of Alantec. As one of the early Sales Executives at Cisco Systems in the early 1990’s, he served in various executive capacities including Director, Worldwide Sales.  Kim managed Cisco’s first Business Unit that was comprised of acquisitions Crescendo, Kalpana and Grand Junction, and was instrumental in propelling sales from a $14 million to a $400 million run rate in little over a year. Earlier in his career, he held executive sales management positions at Wang Laboratories and served as CEO of Hallmark Industries. Mr. Niederman has been a Board Member and Technical Advisor to several Silicon Valley startups.  He holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Denver.

Stefan Beck, VP of Sales, Americas and EMEA

Stefan Beck has a proven track record as a general manager, global sales leader, and business development expert.  He has over fifteen years of consistent, outstanding results introducing new networking technologies, products, and companies into the global service provider and enterprise markets.  Prior to joining Anagran, Stefan successfully managed the international market entry for a variety of companies including Procket Networks, Chiaro Networks, and IP-Unity.  Before that, he worked in various sales and operations roles at Cisco Systems and Redback Networks.  Stefan has repeatedly managed successful market entry into established and emerging international markets, where he has built a number of successful Tier 1 and Tier 2 channel relationships.  He has also built and grown successful sales organizations for early to mid-stage companies, and has extensive experience working with telecommunications equipment market leaders.

Bill has over 17 years experience in the telecommunications industry in various sales, marketing, operations and engineering roles.  Prior to Anagran, Bill served as Director, Sales Engineering and Consulting for Tellabs Asia Pacific where he was instrumental in building Tellabs’ data business with tier 1 carriers in Japan, China, Korea, South Asia and Australia. Prior to Tellabs, Bill was Director, Consulting Engineering for Vivace Networks (acquired by Tellabs in 2003), where he was successful in acquiring Vivace’s first customers MCI and NTT, which led to the Tellabs acquistion by Vivace.  Bill has also served as Director, Services and Support at Mayan Networks, Executive Director, Engineering at Allied Riser Communications, and in various engineering and operations roles at Onstream Networks (acquired by 3Com), MFS Datanet (acquired by MCI) and British Telecom North America.  Bill studied Computer Sciences at DeAnza College and is enrolled part time in the Melbourne University MBA program.