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Executive Team
Procera has an executive team with many years of experience in the networking industry. This team has the industry knowledge, contacts and experience required to drive success in the company.

James F. Brear, President and CEO

James F. Brear, an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the networking industry, leads Procera Networks to further the company’s position as the leader in managing and monetizing the world’s most complex networks. As an executive in the Silicon Valley, Mr. Brear and his teams have created incredible results, which include quadrupling sales at his last four ventures. Prior to Procera, Mr. Brear served as vice president of worldwide field operations for Bivio Networks, a maker of deep packet inspection platform technology. Prior to Bivio, Brear was vice president of worldwide sales for Tasman Networks (acquired by Nortel for $100M), a maker of converged WAN solutions for enterprise branch offices and service providers. Earlier in his career, Mr. Brear was the vice president of worldwide sales for Force10 Networks, where he was responsible for taking the company from a pre-revenue start-up to the industry leader in switch routers for high performance Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. In addition, he spent five years with Cisco Systems where he held senior management positions in Europe and North America with responsibility for delivering more than $750M in annual revenues selling into the world’s largest service providers. Previously, Brear held a variety of sales management positions at both IBM and Sprint Communications. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Charles Constanti, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Constanti, Vice President and CFO, brings over 23 years of public company financial experience and a track record of delivering results to Procera Networks. Most recently, Mr. Constanti was the vice president and CFO of Netopia, Inc., a telecommunications equipment and software company, from April 2005 until its acquisition in February 2007 by Motorola, Inc., where he has held a senior finance position for the past two years. From May 2001 to April 2005, Mr. Constanti was the vice president and corporate controller of Quantum Corporation, for which he earlier served in different accounting and finance positions since January 1997. Before that, Mr. Constanti held various finance positions at BankAmerica Corporation for 8 years, including vice president positions in accounting policy and corporate general accounting. Mr. Constanti was an auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers for several years and is a certified public accountant. He earned a B.S in Accounting from Binghamton University.

Alexander Haväng, Chief Technical Officer

Mr. Haväng is the CTO of Procera Networks and is responsible for the company’s strategic technology direction.  Haväng is widely known and a respected authority in the open source community, and is the lead architect for Procera’s industry-recognized, deep packet inspection-based network traffic and service management solution, PacketLogic™. Earlier in his career, Haväng was one of the chief architects for the open source streaming server software Icecast, along with the secure file transfer protocol GSTP. He spent the early part of his career at IDA systems, an IT solution provider for the Swedish government, along with a stint in the Swedish military.  Haväng studied computer science at the Linköping University in Sweden.

Jon Lindén, Vice President of Global Marketing

Jon Lindén is the Vice President of Global Marketing at Procera Networks.  Lindén is responsible for Procera’s overall global marketing and product strategy and execution.  He has a background in sales and business development with extensive experience in managing networking products throughout their lifecycle.  Prior to joining Procera Networks, Lindén was the CEO of the venture-funded company TheSchoolbook.com, and headed-up sales and marketing at a content management software company.  Early in his career, he was project manager at the Swedish Trade Council in Chicago.

David Ahee, Vice President of Sales Americas

David AheeMr. Ahee brings nearly 20 years of sales and sales management experience in working with mobile, fixed, and cable operators worldwide, as well as large enterprises and oems/channels on a global basis. David joined Procera from Aylus Networks where he served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Previously, David served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development at Auspice prior to their acquisition by Arris. David also ran Sales at ThinkEngine Networks where he played a key role in the acquisition of the company by Cognitronics. David has also served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Nexsi Systems, and as Vice President of North American Sales for Unisphere Networks (now part of Juniper Networks), where he grew revenues from zero to $60 million. Earlier, David was with Ascend Communications, Newbridge Networks, and ROLM. David holds a BS in Marketing with high honors from Wayne State University.

Paul Gracie, Vice President of Sales EMEA

Paul GracieMr. Gracie brings more than 20 years of senior-level sales and management experience in the IT industry to Procera. From start-ups to large, established companies, he has effectively built sales teams, recruited and nurtured channel partners, and significantly grown revenue throughout EMEA. Mr. Gracie previously served as Vice President of EMEA sales for Bivio Networks supplying Open Source Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) appliances to leading EMEA information security solutions vendors. He was also Vice President of EMEA at Silver Peak Systems and Redline Networks. Gracie’s career in IT began with Case Communications; he then joined Bay Networks, a leading routing and switching vendor, which was acquired by Nortel. Following this, he went on to become top European sales performer at ArrowPoint Communications, acquired by Cisco Systems. Mr. Gracie joins Procera Networks from Fortinet Inc.

Benjamin Teh, Vice President of Sales APAC

Ben TehMr. Teh has over 15 years of sales management experience in the computer networking industry. He has effectively built sales teams, recruited and nurtured channel partners, and significantly grown revenue throughout APAC. Prior to joining Procera, Mr. Teh served as Regional Sales Director for Fortinet for over six years, supplying advanced network security products to telcos, education, financial institutions and regional enterprises. As one of the first employees for Fortinet in APAC, Ben created a very strong brand and developed a significant channel program. Prior to that, he served as Regional Sales Director at business security pioneer Watchguard Technologies, where he built up a substantial sales presence in the APAC region by establishing large volume, high profit accounts with high levels of retention and loyalty. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

Michael Marken, Vice President Global Operations

Michael Marken Mr. Marken is an industry veteran with more than 15 years of experience leading world-class customer service organizations. Throughout his career, he has created and built out worldwide customer service organizations and back-end internal processes to fit the needs of any customer. Most recently, he was the vice president of customer engineering for Nevis Networks, a leading provider of secure switching and identity-based network security appliances, where he managed the worldwide customer service organization, all worldwide Sales Engineers, IT infrastructure and personnel, channel partner relationships and business opportunities. Previously, Marken held senior management positions at Riverstone Networks and CoSine Communications. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.