Brad Smith

Brad has an illustrous career spanning 25 years in the IT industry. As Group Vice President: IT Systems Group at Dataquest and VP Technology at Gartner Group, he managed 125 analysts with multiple disciplines and interfaced extensively with clients worldwide, in evaluating new products, M&As, market opportunities, corporate strategies. Later he engaged as research and consulting advisor and business development at RHK, PMSI and LightCounting in Telecom/Data Networking.

Brad started his career as Product Market Manager at DEC and Prime Computer. Over time, Brad co-founded 4 communications and semiconductor start-ups with successful M&A exits including Nexgen acquired by AMD for $890M to compete with Intel x86 business), LuxSonor (acquired by Cirrus Logic), Innovision Labs (acquired by Samsung) etc.

He holds a BSEE and an MSEE from University of Massachusetts and has taken several courses towards an MBA from University of Phoenix. Brad holds several patents in optical communications, spectroscopy and switching.