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Develops photonic transport solutions.
Year Established: | 2000 |
Funding: | 87.2 |
Address: | 35 Nagog Park |
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Mail: | information@mintera.com |
Company URL: | http://www.mintera.com |
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Mintera is a global leader in high speed optical transmission systems. |
Court Square Ventures, LLC,Polaris Venture Partners,Portview Communications Ltd,RRE Ventures LLC
Mintera is led by a seasoned management team
Our team brings a wealth of experience in advanced optical engineering, successful networks and communications product development, and a track record of building and operating businesses while pleasing customers. The team is well positioned to attract additional talent and grow Mintera from a start-up visionary to an optical industry leader.
Dr. Terry F. Unter
Dr. Terry F. Unter is President and CEO of Mintera Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors. From 1998 to 2002, he was Chief Operating Officer at Corvis Corporation, where he played a key role in transitioning the company from the R&D stage to a successful supplier of long haul optical communications systems, achieving over $150 Million in revenue in the first year of full operations. He was instrumental in growing the company from 100 to 1,500 employees and integrating three acquired companies during a short period of time. Before joining Corvis, Dr. Unter was Vice President of Global Optoelectronics at AMP Inc., where he managed a $100 Million business. Prior to AMP, from 1991 to 1997, he led the creation of Alcatel's Optronics subsidiary, developing the vision and business plan as well as leading the execution of the plan with a multinational organization headquartered in France. The business grew to over $50 Million of sales during his tenure. In 1996 he was promoted to Corporate Vice President of Alcatel. During 1988 to 1991, Dr. Unter lived in Shanghai, People¹s Republic of China, where he had the lead role in establishing a joint venture between a number of partners including Alcatel Bell and the Ministry of Electronics, in China. The JV produced complex VLSI components for telecom applications. In 1992 the company was voted one of the top ten joint ventures in China. From 1980 to 1988 Dr. Unter held various engineering, management and operations positions with Northern Telecom Electronics, Alcatel Mietec and Sprague Electric. Dr. Unter holds B.Sc. (honors) and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University in the United Kingdom.
John Anselmi
As Mintera’s Chief Financial Officer, John Anselmi is responsible for the financial and human resources functions. He has 25 years of experience in senior finance roles, primarily in the technology industry.
Most recently, John was a senior consultant for Platinum Equity, a private equity firm. John’s primary focus was transitioning acquired companies into Platinum’s portfolio and where necessary, would assume interim financial executive management positions within the new acquisitions.
Before joining Platinum, John served as Chief Financial Officer of Vanguard Managed Solutions, a provider of enterprise networking equipment and managed network solutions. During his five year tenure, John was a member of Vanguard’s operating committee and was instrumental in the Company realizing a tenfold return on shareholder investment.
Prior to Vanguard, John held numerous senior finance positions, including positions with Motorola and Ernst & Young. He is experienced in high growth businesses and has led the financial aspects of successful divestitures to strategic and financial investors. John is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Adminstration and Accounting from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Bryan Hall
Bryan Hall is Mintera's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales with responsibility for sales generation and customer satisfaction.
Most recently, as president of his own firm, Bryan provided value-added sales, business development and marketing consulting services to a number of venture-backed start-ups. Previously, he was with Astral Point (acquired by Alcatel), Quantum Phontonics (merged to form CoVega), Pirelli Telecom Systems (acquired by Cisco), Hitachi and DSC Communications (acquired by Alcatel). At these companies Bryan 's roles spanned Executive Sales Management, Product Management, Marketing, and Strategic Planning.
Bryan holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Mike Hamilton-Smith
Mike Hamilton-Smith is Mintera’s Vice President of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). An engineer with more than 28 years experience in optical communications, Hamilton-Smith has extensive experience in sales, operations and development.
For nine years he has led sales functions in Europe, successfully developing new business and revenue opportunities for a number of optical communications companies, including SDL, iolon and CoreOptics. While at SDL, he developed the European market and generated multi-million dollar sales in a two-year period, making Europe a key market for the company.
In addition to his sales expertise, Hamilton-Smith has held key operations and engineering positions in EMEA. He was responsible for opening JDSU’s UK, laser module manufacturing plant and for developing the market for these new products. The factory was built, commissioned and operational on-time and in-budget with products qualified at a number of key customers.
He spent the early part of his career at ITT/STC where he developed laser modules for terrestrial and submarine optical systems and at Alcatel Optronics in France where he headed a team developing active components (lasers and receivers).
Steve Lombardi
Steve Lombardi is Vice President of Engineering, responsible for the design, development, and delivery of Mintera's 40Gb/s product line. His product design and development expertise reflects over 20 years of key leadership positions in delivering carrier-class and enterprise products for the telecommunication markets.
Steve joins Mintera from Airvana where he led the activities to establish and introduce an advanced product for the emerging Fixed Mobile Convergence market. Prior to this, Steve was Vice President of Engineering at Smartlink Radio Networks where he was responsible for leading all next generation product development efforts to provide interoperability solutions for the public safety and commercial markets.
During 2000-2003, Steve was Vice President of Engineering at PhotonEx, a 40Gb/s long haul transport start-up company. He successfully led the efforts to produce and deliver the industry's first commercially available 40Gb/s core optical transport system.
Prior to PhotonEx, Steve held senior engineering management positions at Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, and Cabletron Systems. At Cabletron Systems, Steve was instrumental in establishing an industry-leading ASIC development team that produced first-pass ASICs for the SmartSwitch9000 product, which won 'Best of Show' at the 1995 Network+Interop event. The product line went on to produce record-breaking revenue for Cabletron and helped grow the company well beyond a $1B business.
Steve started his career as a senior engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation where he designed, developed, and provided worldwide manufacturing and customer support for networking products.
Mr. Lombardi holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.
Dr. Pavel Mamyshev
Chief Technical Officer and Vice President at Mintera Corporation and a member of the company's founding team. Previously he was a researcher at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies working on high capacity fiber optic transmission systems.
Dr. Mamyshev has more than twenty years of experience in nonlinear fiber optics and high-speed optical data transmission. Before joining Bell Labs in 1993, he was a Leading Research Fellow, Head of Nonlinear Fiber Optics group at General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Mamyshev made a few important discoveries, published more than one hundred scientific papers, is a co-author of five books and holds a number of patents in the field of high speed optical data transmission. He was a lecturer, an invited speaker and member of the program committees at numerous scientific conferences.
Dr. Mamyshev received his Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics in 1985 from Moscow Physical Technical Institute. His Ph.D. thesis was devoted to generation of ultra-short (pico- and femto-second) laser pulses and propagation of these pulses in optical fibers.
Steve Penticost
Steve Penticost has over fifteen years experience in the telecommunications industry having held a number of research, engineering, sales, and marketing positions in both small and large organizations.
After graduating Steve spent over three years working on amplifier and transmission research at Nortel, following this he joined Alcatel Submarine Systems where his responsibilities included designing next generation amplifiers and branching units for undersea applications. Steve has written and presented at international conferences, and has a number of patents both applied for and granted.
In 1997 Steve joined Pirelli Optical Systems North America and was responsible for Systems Engineering for the US market, helping grow Pirelli into a successful organization, culminating in the acquisition by Cisco Systems. Following Cisco's acquisition Steve worked on integration and helped define roles within Cisco's Optical Business Unit.
Moving to Ottawa, Canada in 2000, Steve joined Solinet Systems (Ceyba) where his role was as Director Systems Engineering, responsible for all aspects of customer fulfillment, and was one of the team who successfully closed the series B round, the highest single private round in Canada at the time.
Steve joined Mintera at the end of 2003 where his responsibilities include customer interactions and business development.
Steve Penticost holds a B.Sc. (honors) degree in Physics from Newcastle in the United Kingdom.
Niall Robinson
Niall Robinson is Mintera's Vice President of Product Marketing, with responsibilities encompassing market development, product management and marketing communications. For the last sixteen years Niall has been heavily involved in guiding leading edge technologies and solutions into the marketplace.
Most recently at Optovia Corporation, Niall was responsible for strategic product management and market development for Optovia's range of optical amplifier solutions. Optovia deployed the industry's first hut-skipping optical amplifiers, significantly reducing network capital and operational costs. Whilst at Optovia Niall chaired the PICMG ATCA300 subcommittee developing the open standard ATCA300 specification. He continues to be the Chair of the specification subcommittee.
From 1999 to 2002, Niall was Director, Product Planning for Nortel's ultra-long haul product portfolio, joining Nortel through the acquisition of Qtera. This was the industry's first 10GB/s ULH product and was successfully deployed in several national networks.
Prior to Qtera Niall spent five years at MCI (now Verizon) with responsibility for identifying next generation optical technologies covering all aspects of the backbone network. In this role Niall worked with many equipment and technology companies to mature solutions into products ready for deployment.
Niall started his career as a research engineer at STC (also acquired by Nortel) with research focused on terrestrial and submarine amplifier technologies and designs.
Niall holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a Master's degree in Microwaves and Optoelectronics from University College London.
Gary Seagraves
Gary Seagraves is Mintera's Vice President of Operations, with responsibilities encompassing operations management including production planning, procurement, material management/logistics and new product introduction. For the last twenty nine years Gary has been involved in operations activities for advanced technology products.
Most recently at Ambrado Inc, Gary was Vice President of Operations responsible for creating an operations team to plan, procure, manufacture and deliver board assemblies for the broadcast camera industry.
Experience prior to Ambrado included Executive Operations roles at optical networking companies Celion and Corvis. At Celion Gary set the strategy and directed the activities for procurement, planning, production and delivery of Celion’s products, delivering the industry’s first DWDM system designed explicitly for Enterprise customers. Responsibilities at Corvis encompassed all phases of the production and shipment of one of the industry’s first Ultra-Long Haul DWDM optical networking systems and the industry’s first all-optical switch.
Gary began his career at Alcatel/Rockwell, in Richardson, Texas, where he spent twenty two years in various operations roles culminating in being responsible for all manufacturing activities. Responsibilities included circuit board assembly and test, systems assembly and test, engineering support, planning, logistics, and order fulfillment with the plant generating annual revenues of $750M.
Gary holds a BBA in Finance from the University of Texas, Austin.