DataDirect Networks (DDN) competitors

Robert Willett has been the Chief Executive Officer of Cognex since 2011. He is responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s strategy and operations. Cognex, a Nasdaq-listed company, is the world leader in the field of industrial machine vision: technology that allows computers to see and which is used in the field of advanced factory automation and robotics to manufacture smart phones, automobiles and medical devices, as well as in logistics for ecommerce fulfillment. Cognex is a technology and growth company with 2,000 employees (who proudly call themselves “Cognoids”) and over $700M in revenue. Robert’s career has focused on growth through innovation, acquisition and global expansion. He has taken two companies through their transition from founder-led businesses to global scale and marketshare leadership. He credits his success to a: strategic focus on critical growth and margin levers; promotion of a work hard, play hard, move fast entrepreneurial culture; experience and success in acquiring and integrating twenty companies and, attention to process improvement.

Robert J. Pera (born March 10, 1978) is the founder of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. a global communications technology company that Pera took public in 2011. In October 2012, Pera also became the owner of a professional basketball team: The Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. At the age of 36, Pera earned a spot on Forbes list of the 10 youngest billionaires in the world.

Timothy Dreisbach has been with the company since May 1998. Prior to joining Metricom, Dreisbach served as president and CEO of Premenos Technology Corp., a supplier of software and services for business-to-business electronic commerce. There he successfully returned Premenos to profitability, and assisted in the company's recent merger with Harbinger Corp., one of the nation's leading providers of single source electronic commerce and EDI solutions. He previously served five years as senior vice president for North American Sales and Service at Boole & Babbage, a provider of enterprise systems management software, and was a founding officer of Legent Corporation. Dreisbach has over 25 years of management and high-tech experience, an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, and a graduate degree from UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Tiana Glinton works at SILICON GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL CORP and a CEO at SILICON GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL CORP and is based in Pompano Beach, Florida.

During the past 10 years working diligently on positioning, growing, and ultimately driving three strategic acquisitions yielding well over $1 billion in shareholder returns, I have retired from day-to-day operations. My focus is now on select board work for up and coming cyber/tech-oriented companies.