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Develops software products for Digital Subscriber Line service providers.
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Address: | 303 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 203 Redwood City, CA 94065 |
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Company URL: | http://www.assia-inc.com |
December 2, 2009
Assia announces that it has added three key executives to its management team, naming Joe Grady as vice president of worldwide sales, Raymond Ostby as CFO, and Steve Timmerman as senior vice president of marketing. HTML | PDF
November 2, 2009
Assia announces that it has secured $10 million in strategic investment financing. New investors Mingly China Growth Fund and SFR Development joined previous investors Sofinnova Partners, Swisscom Ventures, Stanford University, and T-Venture in raising this round.
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September 7, 2009
Ikanos Communications and ASSIA announce a partnership to accelerate the deployment of vectored DSL technology. Under terms of the agreement, Ikanos receives a license to ASSIAâs essential DSM patents and vectored DSL products. The two companies will also co-market each othersâ products to network equipment and service provider industries. HTML | PDF
September 2, 2009
ASSIA announces that company Chairman and CEO John Cioffi will be a panelist in a plenary session and chair a breakout session at the IEC Broadband World Forum Europe 2009 at the CNIT La Defense in Paris on Wednesday, September 9. HTML | PDF
October 15, 2008
ASSIA announces that it has reached agreement with British Sky Broadcasting (Sky, www.sky.com), the UKâs fastest-growing broadband provider, to deploy ASSIAâs DSL Expresse Dynamic Spectrum Management platform in its DSL network. HTML | PDF
February 25, 2008
The reduction of power consumption by telecommunications equipment has become a global imperative. For DSL operators, a strong desire for ecologically sound operations combined with rising energy costs at central offices and neighborhood distribution points have resulted in a requirement for increased power efficiency while preserving the continuing DSL evolution towards higher data rates. HTML | PDF
June 18, 2007
ASSIA announces the commercial release of its new software package, ASSIA DSL Expresseâ¢. DSL Expresse is the first commercial software package that conforms to Level 1 of the recently released ATIS Dynamic Spectrum Management Technical Report.
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March 20, 2007
ASSIA announces the appointment of two telecommunications industry veterans to help lead the expansion and development of the companyâs product and technology portfolios.
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January 16, 2007
ASSIA announces its collaboration with a number of leading DSL semiconductor and equipment manufacturers via the license of ASSIAâs RAPIDE⢠and CHORALE⢠DSM software interfaces. HTML | PDF
November 15, 2005
SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC), announces today that its SBC Knowledge Ventures and SBC Network Planning and Engineering units have signed a three-year agreement with Redwood City, CA-based ASSIA, Inc. to develop and license technologies and intellectual property to help manage and enhance the performance of the next generation of DSL broadband services. HTML | PDF
Mingly Capital,SFR Developpement SAS,Swisscom AG,T-Venture Holding GmbH,Undisclosed Firm
John M. Cioffi CEO and Chairman of the Board, ASSIA
Dr. John Cioffi is a 30-year veteran of the DSL industry and sports numerous prestigious awards for his contributions to technology and industry. Prior to founding ASSIA in 2003, he served as founder, CTO and vice president of engineering at Amati before its acquisition by Texas Instruments. Dr. Cioffi held a tenured endowed professorship at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1985-2009, where he is now an active Professor Emeritus with limited ongoing research efforts in broadband access. He has published over 400 papers and holds over 100 patents. Dr. Cioffi is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and an International Fellow of the United Kingdom Royal Society of Engineering. He is a winner of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (2010), the IEEE Kobayashi Award (2001), and the Marconi Society's Marconi Prize (2006). He currently serves on the boards of Teranetics, ClariPhy, Vector Silicon, and Alto Beam. Dr. Cioffi holds a BSEE from the University of Illinois and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Philip Bednarz Executive Vice President of Product Development
Dr. Bednarz comes to ASSIA from 2Wire where he was vice president of media engineering and vice president of software, playing a key role in that company's development of DSL gateways, multimedia set-top boxes, and management systems. Previously he was CEO of Netergy Microelectronics, a subsidiary of 8x8 Inc., and developed some of the world's first consumer voice and video-over-IP semiconductors and systems. Dr. Bednarz has a PhD and MS from Stanford University and BS from the University of Michigan, all in electrical engineering.
Assia Cioffi Executive Vice President
Ms. Assia Cioffi is a founding Board member of the company in 2003 as well as the company’s namesake. She oversees all aspects of ASSIA’s appearance, including the company logo, Web site, shareholder, investor, board, and advisory board meetings, and functions worldwide. Ms. Cioffi created and fosters the company’s unique and beloved culture that emphasizes personal engagement, open communication among hard-working professionals, and an international, customer-focused orientation. Prior to ASSIA, she worked in a number of aesthetics positions in Paris, France. Ms. Cioffi holds the certificate of Esthéticiènne from École Internationale Élysées Marbeuf, Paris.
Marc Goldburg Executive Vice President and CTO
Marc Goldburg is a veteran of the telecommunications industry with extensive experience in technology development and partnerships, intellectual property management, standards, and regulatory matters. Mr. Goldburg is a technical founder and former CTO of ArrayComm, LLC, whose spatial processing technology is deployed worldwide in more than 275,000 wireless base stations. Later, as a consultant, he guided companies in the mobile satellite, digital television, and WiMAX carrier industries. His prior positions also include a staff position at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and a research position at Stanford University. Dr. Goldburg holds a PhD from Stanford, an MSEE from the University of Washington and a BSE from Princeton University, all in electrical engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE and was recognized by Scientific American as its Communications Researcher of the Year in 2002.
Joe Grady Vice President of Global Sales
Joe Grady brings over 30 years of experience in the development of high profile products and companies in the telecommunications and high tech industries. He also brings 30 years of relationships with the world's major service providers, the key target customers for ASSIA’s current and future products. During his distinguished career Mr. Grady has served as executive vice president of sales at Excess Bandwidth and Amati Communications. Earlier, he held sales management positions with Newbridge Networks, Racal Data Communications, Octel Communications, and AT&T Paradyne. Mr. Grady has a BS in Economics and Business Administration from Mount Saint Mary's University.
Raymond K. Ostby CFO and Vice President of Finance and Administration
Prior to joining ASSIA, Mr. Ostby served as CFO over a 25-year period for numerous high technology companies, including NextG Networks, Inc., a wireless telecommunications infrastructure company; Arraycomm, Inc, a provider of multi-antenna signal processing solutions; KBC Pharma, a pharmaceutical research company; Quickturn Design Systems, a provider of system-level semiconductor design verification solutions; Force Computers, a computer products company; and Atmel Corp, a manufacturer of semiconductor products. Previously, Mr. Ostby held several senior financial management positions at Intel Corp, a manufacturer of semiconductor products. He has served on the board of directors and as chairman of the audit committee of Trident Microsystems, Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor products for the digital television market. Mr. Ostby has been a Certified Public Accountant, holds BA and MBA degrees from the University of Montana, and completed his PhD coursework in quantitative analysis at the University of California at Berkeley.
Steve Timmerman Senior Vice President of Marketing
A seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience in communication technology companies, Steve Timmerman leads ASSIA's marketing initiatives. Prior to joining ASSIA, Mr. Timmerman was vice president of marketing for ShoreTel, the enterprise IP telephony company, where he directed all marketing activities, helped quadruple revenue over 4 years, and served as a core member of the successful 2007 IPO team. He served as vice president of marketing for Proxim, where he was responsible for marketing indoor and outdoor wireless networking products and building the company into a market leader. Mr. Timmerman also held several management positions at Octel Communications (the voice mail company) up through the acquisition by Lucent Technologies. Early in his career he worked with McKinsey in San Francisco and Europe. Mr. Timmerman holds a BS in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University.
Steve Welch Senior Vice President of Business Development
Steve Welch is responsible for ASSIA’s commercial agreements with customers and acts as chief negotiator for these contracts. Mr. Welch retired from AT&T in 2006 as a senior executive vice president. Mr. Welch spent 16 years as the chief procurement officer for SBC (Ameritech, Southwest Bell, Pacific Telesis), where he architected a centralized, world-class supply chain management organization through a series of successive mergers, achieving best-in-class results including over $6 billion in cost reduction. Mr. Welch was recognized for his excellence in procurement including: Buyer-of-the-Year, Electronic Buyer's News; "Top 20 Voices for Quality in the 21st Century," Quality News (2001); Executive-of-the-Year by the Economic Development Council of Los Angeles; Ron Brown Award from U.S. Commerce Department for leadership and diversity (2002); Corporation-of-the-Year by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (2001). He is a member of Accenture's Executive Advisory Board for Procurement Solutions and also serves as an executive advisor to the Board of Directors for QuEST Forum, a global telecom industry quality organization he founded in 1998. He is the principal of Value Propositions, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in supply chain management. Mr. Welch holds a BA from Harvard University, an MS from San Diego State University, and is a graduate of the Executive Program at University of Virginia Business School.