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Management Team

	David Flynn, CEO
	Devin Akin, Chief Wi-Fi Architect
	Adam Conway, Vice President of Product Management
	George Frie, CFO
	Long Fu, Vice President of Engineering
	Gareth Green, Vice President of Sales, EMEA
	Cary Kosher, Vice President of Americas Sales
	Changming Liu, CTO
	Stephen Philip, Vice President of Corporate and Product Marketing

David Flynn

David Flynn has more than 15 years experience in the networking and security industries working with both software and hardware products. He was Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at NetScreen Technologies from 1999 to 2004 where he drove marketing, product and corporate strategy leading to a successful IPO and the eventual $4 billion sale of the company to Juniper Networks. At Juniper, David served as Vice President of Products for the Security Products Group. Prior to NetScreen he worked at 3Com Corporation for 8 years, where he held various marketing and product management positions including Vice President of Marketing for the architecture and software operation in the Client Access Business Unit. David has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in economics from Williams College, Williamstown, MA.

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Devin Akin

Devin Akin has over 10 years in the wireless LAN market and over 15 years in information technology, co-founding CWNP, the de facto standard for vendor-neutral Wi-Fi training and certification, and Peachtree Wireless Solutions, a vendor-specific training and services company. Devin served as CTO for both companies until 2009, authoring several exams, whitepapers, and courseware as the principal subject matter expert, and he served as the primary speaker, instructor, blogger, and consultant for CWNP. He regularly assisted a wide variety of Wi-Fi industry manufacturers with product and marketing strategy, quality assurance, and workforce education and regularly keynoted vendor summits and wireless user conferences.

Devin's background includes working as a network design engineer for EarthLink, AT&T/BellSouth, Foundry Networks, and Sentinel Technologies as well as working as an RF engineer in the U.S. Army. He has authored and edited several books with Wiley-Sybex and McGraw-Hill and holds some of the industry's most esteemed certifications, including CWNE, MCNE, MCSE, CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, and INFOSEC. He is considered an authority on Wi-Fi technology.

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Adam Conway

Adam Conway is Vice President of Product Management at Aerohive Networks, Inc.; he brings over a decade of experience in the development of networking equipment. Previously Adam ran product management for the branch office and mid-market firewall and router platforms for Juniper Networks and NetScreen Technologies; a role that included managing the Juniper wireless products.

Adam started his career at Cisco Systems as an engineer on the design team for low-end IOS routers including such blockbuster products as the Cisco 2500, 1700, 1600 and 800 series routers. Adam Conway Received an MS in Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University. Adam has authored networking and wireless patents.

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George Frie

George Frie, CFO and VP of sales operations, brings over 15 years of experience to the Aerohive executive team. Previously George was CFO and vice president of field operations for the Asia Pacific region at Solid Information Technology Corporation (acquired by IBM). Prior to Solid, George was controller of Juniper Networks, U.K. and held multiple finance and business development positions at NetScreen Technologies (acquired by Juniper) and Omnicell. He was also a consultant for Ernst & Young. George is a certified public accountant and holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and accounting from the University of St. Thomas.

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Long Fu

Long Fu most recently was Aerohive's Director of Engineering for the HiveManager platform, consistently delivering complex, feature-rich products. Long brings to the table over 20 years of experience in engineering management, system engineering/architecture and software/firmware development. Prior to joining Aerohive, he was breaking new ground with Infoblox, and delivering carrier class systems at market-leading companies including Alcatel, BNR and Ciena.

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Gareth Green

Gareth has over ten years experience in the networking industry in EMEA. Before joining Aerohive, Gareth was the VP EMEA for Network Engines where he was responsible for sales, channels and strategic partner alliances in the region. Prior to Network Engines, Gareth served as VP Enterprise for Juniper Networks through its acquisition of NetScreen Networks. During the six year period Gareth spent as VP EMEA for NetScreen, Gareth was responsible for the strategies and development of theentire Netscreen EMEA business. He helped establish NetScreen as a key network security vendor in the EMEA marketplace , taking the company from an unknown start-up to revenues to in excess of $120million. Prior to Netscreen, Gareth was a Co-Founder and Director of Congress Communications, a European based start-up incubator taking US companies into EMEA and worked with over 20 companies including, Ipswitch, Arrowpoint, Ramp Networks, Apogee, Indus River,and Ipivot.

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Cary Kosher

Cary Kosher, Vice President of Americas Sales, brings more than 20 years of sales experience and expertise to the Aerohive executive team. Prior to joining Aerohive, Cary honed his customer-centric business philosophy at innovative upstarts like Airespace and WatchGuard, and industry mainstays like Cisco and 3Com. Cary graduated with a B.A. in Advertising and Marketing, from the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Changming Liu

Changming Liu is the co-founder of Aerohive Networks, Inc. Changming has been a key architect and technical manager for over 15 years in the Data Networking industry. Prior to founding Aerohive, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper networks. Previously he held other key positions with Nortel Networks, Vistar Telecommunications, and NetScreen Technologies. Changming holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in Beijing and received his Masters in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Queen's University in Canada. Changming is the author of more than ten Networking Patents.

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Stephen Philip

Stephen Philip is an industry professional with more than 25 years of experience in the telecoms, enterprise networking and security industries. Prior to Aerohive Networks, Stephen was at Juniper/NetScreen for six years, where he held the positions of Senior Director of Product Marketing, Juniper Security Products, Director of Product Marketing and Director of Americas Marketing NetScreen Technologies. Stephen has also worked at a number of Vendors, Carriers and System Integrators including 3Com, British Telecom, Infotron Systems and Telecom Australia.

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