Richard D. Haney

Rich is cofounder and CTO of X One, Inc. and previously served as President and CEO of AlterWAN, Inc. an Alternative Wide Area Network systems integration company that developed private WAN like network solution using the Internet as the backbone.

Mr. Haney held prior leadership positions in; Engineering, Sales and Marketing for companies including Larse, Timeplex, Fujitsu and Lockheed. During the Early 1980’s Mr. Haney pioneered the development of mesh network topologies for Timeplex and is the inventor of switching multiplexer technology a predecessor to current day routers. Mr. Haney also developed the first PC based network manager used for managing these new complex networks. Mr. Haney has been issued 40 US Patents and 1 Japanese Patent as the sole inventor in the field of networking systems and mobile communications with numerous patents pending.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology and Master of Science degree in Computer Science from San Jose State University.