Executive Management Team

George Schneer, President and CEO
Keith Klarer, VP Engineering and Founder
Dr. Simon Knee, VP Software and Architecture
Robert Harling, Vice President of Operations

George Schneer
President and CEO

Mr. Schneer brings over 35 years of leadership experience in technology companies. For the last 20 years he served in executive management and Board of Directors positions with several private companies. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Ethertronics, a privately held company developing state of the art embedded antennas for mobile wireless applications. Previously Mr. Schneer held several executive positions at Intel Corp. including VP/GM of the Memory Components Division and VP/Director of Quality and Reliability. He was also a founding Director of Sematech, the industry consortium, and represented Intel on the Sematech Board of Directors. Before that he spent several years in research and development at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Mr. Schneer has also been an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association in the area of technology business Mr. Schneer holds a BSEE degree from Bucknell University, an MSEE degree from USC and an MS Physics degree from Lehigh University.

Keith Klarer
Vice President of Hardware Engineering and Founding Member

Mr. Klarer has 30 years of hardware design and management experience, including fifteen years of technical management experience and four years as a founder and CEO of an engineering services company. Before co-founding Astute Networks in 2000, he was the CEO of Axym Design, which provided system design services to such companies as Philips Semiconductor, IBM and Gateway 2000. Mr. Klarer has held technical and management positions at Logic Innovations, a consulting firm that provided product design services to clients such as General Instruments, Brooktree, and Symbol Technologies. He has also held engineering positions at Scientific Computer Systems and Control Data Corporation. Mr. Klarer holds a BSEE Degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Dr. Simon Knee
Vice President of Software and Architecture

Dr. Knee has an extensive background in software design and the architecture of network solutions. Prior to joining Astute Networks, Dr. Knee served as Senior Advanced Development engineer for Intel Corporation, formerly XLNT Inc., where he architected high-performance frame forwarding engines and other ASICs. Prior to Intel, he performed research into the generation of software for massively parallel architectures. Dr. Knee has been awarded two patents with several pending in the areas of parallel processing and inter-domain routing. Additionally, Dr. Knee has published multiple papers in the areas of massively parallel programming, modeling and performance prediction. Dr. Knee earned a M.A. degree from Cambridge University, England, and a D.Phil. from the Programming Research Group, Oxford University, England.

Robert Harling
Vice President of Operations

Mr. Harling brings nearly 20 years of Operations, Supply Chain Management and Product Development experience to Astute Networks. Mr Harling has extensive operational experience in diverse industries such as, storage networking, semiconductors, industrial computing, wireless networks, power conditioning and consumer products. His focus has been on assisting companies achieve their goals through operational excellence. Prior to joining Astute Networks, Mr. Harling held key management positions with Carttronics, AP Labs, JNI Corp. (AMCC Enterprise Division), Maxwell Technologies, and Scotts/Miracle-Gro. Robert graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a degree in Quantitative Economics and Decision Sciences.

 

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