Cradlepoint (formerly Pertino)
George Mulhern has a diverse work experience spanning several industries. George served as the CEO of Cradlepoint, Inc. from September 2011 until the company's acquisition by Ericsson in November 2020. In this role, they played a crucial part in the company's growth, raising $160M in venture capital and expanding the employee count from 70 to over 1,000.
George also worked as an Independent Director on the Board of Directors for Cambia Health Solutions and Regence Blue Shield of Idaho since April 2018. In these positions, George contributed to transforming the healthcare system and ensuring its economic sustainability.
Additionally, they served as a Member of the Governors Science and Technology Council from August 2021 to October 2021 on the Cybersecurity Task Force. Prior to these roles, George was a General Partner at Highway 12 Ventures from August 2008 to September 2011, where they focused on early-stage technology investments and provided guidance to portfolio companies as a Director on the Board.
George's earlier career includes significant roles at Hewlett Packard, where they held various marketing and management positions before becoming the Senior Vice President and Global Business Unit Manager. During their tenure from September 1986 to February 2007, they had profit and loss responsibility for hardware, software, and services businesses across different regions.
Furthermore, George started their career as a Sales Representative at the Lighting Business Group of General Electric Company from 1979 to 1985.
George Mulhern attended San Jose State University where they pursued a BS and MBA in Business Administration. The specific start and end years of their education are not provided.
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Cradlepoint (formerly Pertino)
The unstoppable forces of mobile and cloud are transforming IT and making the Internet the new WAN. Pertino enables enterprises to build and manage private cloud networks that overlay the public Internet and extend visibility, security and control to workforces and workloads everywhere. The Pertino Cloud Network Engine platform powers thecompany's network-as-a-service offering—combining the power and persuasiveness of the cloud with network virtualization, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Service Virtualization (NSV). Pertino is an entirely new way to WAN that lets IT organizations build and manage private virtual networks over the Internet, securely connecting people and resources anywhere. IT admins can add virtual network services from the AppScape app store to extend the security, visibility and control of their Pertino cloud networks with just a few clicks.Today, over 5,000 customers have used Pertino's Cloud Network Engine to build cloud networks spanning over 70 countries around the world, from Iceland to Australia.Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Pertino is a venture-backed company funded by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Lightspeed Venture Partners and JAFCO Ventures, with private investments from a number of network industry luminaries.