Quadrium Co-Founder
Optilink Senior Engineer
Advanced Fibre Communications Founder, VP Marketing,
VP Advanced Research Chief Technology Officer
ConvergeLabs Advisory Board
Legare Networks Founder, Board Member
Turin Networks Founder, President, CEO, Chairman,
Board Member
Red Condor Board Member
PAX Streamline CEO
Innovative Labs LLC Founder, President and CEO
Education: Honors B.S.E.E. 1979 and M.S.E.E. 1981 University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
With his two co-founders, John grew Advanced Fibre to 300 people and a market capitalization of $6 billion. John left to found Turin Networks, an optical networking company. Six years later, when he retired as CEO, Turin was a $50 million business with 250+ employees. Since retiring from Turin, he has been involved in a board capacity with numerous startups, including Red Condor, Clovis, SecureTrack, Innovative Labs and myJambi. John’s telecommunications background extends from the Department of Telecommunications in South Africa to Lynch Communications in Nevada, where he worked as Senior Development Engineer.
University of Nevada Professor of Electrical Engineering 1972 -1974
Tele Industries Founder, developed T.V. video games, home computers
Renaissance Technology Founder, VP Engineering, VP Research, developed 43 products
InterVenture Founder, VP Marketing, VP Advanced Research, CTO,
Digital Power VP Engineering (a public company)
Pocket Technology Founder, VP Engineering, developed $6 million product in one year
Andrew Communications RF Engineering, Russia Antenna Program, Satellite Engineer
Human BioSystems Founder, (NASDAQ company) CTO, VP Engineering
Advanced Fibre Communications Director of Radio Engineering
Innovative Labs LLC Director of Research and Development
Education: B.S.E.E. 1972 and M.S.E.E. 1975
University of Nevada, Reno
(Elected to National Honors Engineering Fraternity Sigma Tau )
Thesis for Ph.D.E.E., Poznan Polytechnic University, Poznan, Poland
Victor came to California in 1975 to start a number of business ventures having left National Cash Register as an engineer in Sparks, Nevada. Victor founded and grew his garage based business from $0 to $30 million (Renaissance) developing inventions into products. He has a large patent base. Later Victor became internationally involved with Russia satellite deployment and engineering through the Ministry of Communications in Moscow, Victor eventually came to join Advanced Fibre as the Radio Engineering Director. After 6 years at AFC he joined with John Webley within Innovative Labs LLC.
Victor Ivashin
Director of Research and Development
John Webley
President and Chief Executive Officer