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Dave Côté has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Packeteer since October 2002. From April 1997 to October 2002, Mr. Côté served as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Communication ASSPs (Application-Specific Standard Products) for Integrated Device Technology, Inc., a semiconductor company. From January 1995 to November 1996, Mr. Côté served as Vice President of Marketing and Customer Support for ZeitNet Inc., which was acquired by Cabletron in 1996. From 1979 to 1995, he served in various marketing and sales positions, most recently as Director of Marketing at SynOptics, Inc. (now Nortel Network). Mr. Côté holds a B.S. from the University of California at Davis and an M.B.A. from California State University at Sacramento.
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David C. Yntema has served as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Packeteer since January 1999. From May 1994 through August 1998, Mr. Yntema served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance and Administration of VIVUS, Inc., a pharmaceutical company. Prior to joining VIVUS, Mr. Yntema served as Chief Financial Officer for EO, Inc., a handheld computer company, MasPar Computer Corporation, a massively parallel computer company, and System Industries, a storage subsystem company and has held a variety of other financial management positions. Mr. Yntema holds a B.A. in economics and business administration from Hope College, an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and is a certified public accountant.
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Manuel R. Freitas has served as Vice President, Operations and Customer Support at Packeteer since May 2000. Mr. Freitas served as an independent operations management consultant from April 1999 until November 1999 and then again from February 2000 through May 2000. Previously, he served as Vice President of Customer Operations for Vividence Corporation, an Internet services company, from November 1999 to February 2000. From February 1990 to March 1999, Mr. Freitas served in various positions at Adobe Systems, Inc., including Vice President of Worldwide Customer Operations from October 1995 to March 1999, interim Vice President of Sales and Support for the Americas from April 1998 to November 1998 and Director of OEM and Developer Support from February 1990 to September 1995. Prior to joining Adobe, Mr. Freitas served in product management, field operations management, and sales management positions at Schlumberger Technologies from 1980 to 1989. Mr. Freitas holds a B.A. in business administration from William Patterson College.
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Ray Smets has served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Packeteer since September 2007. From February 2007 to September 2007, Mr. Smets served as Vice President of Marketing for the Broadband Solutions Group within Motorola's Connected Home Solutions business. Mr. Smets joined Motorola through the acquisition of Netopia, Inc. in February of 2007. At Netopia, Mr. Smets was the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Prior to joining Netopia in January 2006, Mr. Smets served from October 2002 to August 2004 as President of the Network General, Inc. subsidiary of McAfee Security, Inc., a security software company providing antivirus and network management solutions, and as a consultant for McAfee until December 2005. Before joining McAfee, Mr. Smets served for over 15 years in executive roles at BellSouth Corporation, including as President of BellSouth.net Inc. and Vice President of Network Transformation of BellSouth's Telecommunications Group. Mr. Smets holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Florida and an M.B.A. from Nova-Southeastern University.
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Nelu Mihai has served as Vice President of Engineering at Packeteer since January 2006. Mr. Mihai served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Cloudshield Technologies, a provider of servers for network traffic inspection, from April 2003 to March 2004. In 2002, he co-founded SLA partners, an international consulting firm. From December 1999 to December 2001 he served as CEO and COO of CPlane Inc, a telecom software company. Prior to 1999 he worked for six years at Bell Labs, and AT&T, his last position there being Division Manager. Before 1994 he served in different positions at Silicon Valley startups specialized in real time operating systems and at nuclear research institutes in Western Europe. Mr. Mihai holds a MS in computer engineering from Polytechnic University of Bucharest and a Ph. D. in computer science from Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, with the doctorate work done at CERN Geneva, Switzerland.
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Greg Pappas has served as Vice President of Human Resources of Packeteer since November 2005. From July 2004 through October 2005, Mr. Pappas served as Vice President of Human Resources of Extended Systems, Inc., a mobility software company. From June 2000 through July 2004, Mr. Pappas served as Vice President of Human Resources for GlobalEnglish Corporation, an Internet e-learning company. Prior to joining GlobalEnglish, from November 1998 through June 2000 Mr. Pappas served as Vice President of Human Resources for Inference Corporation, a knowledge management software company acquired by E-Gain Corporation. Mr. Pappas holds a B.S. in human resource administration from Kennedy-Western University.
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Dave Winikoff has served as Vice President of Product Management at Packeteer since June 2007, and brings more than 20 years of product management and engineering experience in the networking industry. Prior to joining Packeteer, Mr. Winikoff was Vice President, Product Management of Siemens Enterprise Networks, the unified communications business unit of Siemens. Mr. Winikoff has been involved with unified communications from the early stages of the market segment's development and has extensive experience with VoIP and telephony in general. Mr. Winikoff holds four patents in the area of unified communications. He holds a B.S. in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA in international marketing from Santa Clara University.
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