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Pica8 Names Dan Tuchler as VP of Product ManagementPica8 Inc., the one-stop source for white box networking, today announced that it continues to expand its management team with the appointment of Dan Tuchler as vice president of product management. Tuchler comes to Pica8 with more than 25 years of executive experience in networking, ASICs, and virtualization. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151207005317/en/ 
Dan Tuchler, vice president of product management (Photo: Business Wire) Prior to joining Pica8, Tuchler was a product management executive at many successful startups, including Alteon Websystems, Blade Network Technologies, Force10 Networks, Mellanox (News - Alert) Technologies, and Vyatta, and he consulted with Caium/Xpliant on go-to-market strategies for the company's switching ASIC. He holds a BSEE from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Boston University. "Having been part of three IPOs and three acquisitions so far, I know what it takes to create valuable, high-growth companies in the networking business," said Tuchler. "Pica8 has a unique value proposition and a talented team at the forefront of the hottest networking trend to come along in quite a while. I look forward to helping Pica8 translate its vision into greater market success." "We are pleased to add Dan Tuchler to our management team as we gain customers and drive new solutions for rapidly evolving networking architectures," said James Liao, president and CEO at Pica8. "Dan brings us a broad perspective on growing networking startups and he can help drive our technology roadmap." About Pica8, Inc. Since 2009, Pica8 is the one-stop source for white box networking with PicOS™, a network operating system that enables organizations and original equipment manufacturers to easily integrate Layer-2 / Layer-3 networking and software-defined networking (SDN) using commodity switches. Pica8's solutions enable real time, hands free provisioning that fits today's complex networks and scales with them to enable transformation. PicOS supports an industry-standard CLI for Layer-2 / Layer-3, unmodified Linux, and OpenFlow 1.4. Pica8 provides PicOS on both pre-loaded switching hardware or as standalone software for a growing list of compatible bare metal switches. Pica8 is a global company headquartered in Palo Alto (News - Alert), California. For more information, visit www.pica8.com or follow @pica8 on Twitter (News - Alert). View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151207005317/en/ |
