Manager Management

K. Arlan Harris

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Mr. K. Arlan Harris most recently was the Senior Vice President and General

Manager for 3Com's Security Division TippingPoint. TippingPoint is the

global market leader in Intrusion Prevention Systems and Security Platform

Solutions. Since joining TippingPoint in September of 2006, this division

has transformed under his leadership from losing nearly $20 Million

annually to seeing record revenue growth quarter-over-quarter and growing

annually at over 20% per year. Now with annual revenues approaching $160

Million, TippingPoint is now a profitable division of 3Com contributing

nearly $20 Million in profit annually.

Immediately prior to 3Com, Mr. Harris was the Senior Vice President and

General Manager of Siemens Subscriber Networks. This division of Siemens

was the worldwide leader in DSL broadband devices representing a $350

Million P&L for which he was responsible. His organization was responsible

for identifying market and product strategies, product line management,

research and development and operation support for all of Siemens broadband

customer premise based products worldwide.

As a veteran in the high tech industry with more than 25 years of

experience, Mr. Harris served as an Executive in Residence with Austin

Ventures where he focused on emerging opportunities for converged

communications within both the wireline and wireless telecommunications

market sector with special emphasis on the deregulated energy sector.

In June of 1999, he founded Netensity, Inc., a leading edge

telecommunications equipment company focused on integrated broadband voice

and data, where he served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief

Executive Officer. Prior to Netensity, he was an officer of NetWorth,

Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of local area networking

products and software, the first company to ship 10BaseT and 100BaseT

Ethernet products. Mr. Harris held the position of Vice President of

Engineering and then as the General Site Manager for Compaq Computer

Corporation - Dallas, after the acquisition of NetWorth by Compaq in

December 1995 for $372 Million. Prior to NetWorth, Mr. Harris served as a

technology management consultant for corporations including EDS Advanced

Research, BancTec, OKI Data and others.

Mr. Harris started his career with United Technologies, Mostek Corporation

in 1977 where he designed and managed the development of numerous leading

edge products over a 10-year period. He was a co-author of the VMEbus

specification and holds multiple patents. Mr. Harris also serves on the

advisory boards of a number early stage technology companies.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas at Dallas.

As a seasoned senior executive with extensive leadership experience in the

high technology arena, he is a visionary and strategist who has a proven

track record of successfully raising capital, building high-energy

organizations, implementing and executing a structured style of management

for critical time-to-market projects within both small and large

corporations. Organizations under his leadership have benefited from

quarter-over-quarter revenue growth, increased profit margins and minimal

attrition. Developing growth oriented business plans, developing strategic

partnerships, engaging in public offerings and corporate acquisitions, have

contributed to his many years of business success while still maintaining a

high-level of personal integrity.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

3Com - TippingPoint Technologies Inc., Austin, Texas

September 2006 - September 2009

Sr. Vice President and General Manager

3Com's Security Division TippingPoint is the global market in leader in

Intrusion Prevention Systems and security solutions with more than 4000

customers globally and over 33% of the fortune 1000 as customers. Since

joining TippingPoint in September of 2006, this division has seen record

revenue growth quarter over quarter and is now a profitable division.

This role is responsible for the company's business management functions,

product marketing/management, business development, global research and

development, and operations: supply chain, quality, and logistics

organizations. Additional responsibilities include: indirect support

for sales operations, corporate strategy and corporate development

activities.

Siemens - Subscriber Networks Inc., Dallas, Texas

January 2003 - November 2006

Sr. Vice President and General Manager

Global responsibility for Siemens DSL broadband devices representing a

$350 Million P&L. This division of Siemens is the worldwide leader

market share leader, providing product to the Top 50 wireline

telecommunication operators worldwide. This organization is responsible

for identifying market and product strategies, product line management,

research and development and operation support for all of Siemens

broadband customer premise based products globally with develop centers

in the US, Europe and China. Product Segments include: Residential and

Business Class modems, gateways, routers, and IAD's for DSL, PON and

WiMAX.

Austin Ventures, Plano, Texas

April 2002 - January 2003

Executive in Residence

Focused on emerging opportunities for converged communications within

both the wireline and wireless telecommunications market sector with

special emphasis on the deregulated energy sector. Reviewed deal flow

and provided guidance and advise in areas of expertise to partners and

entrepreneurs.

Netensity, Inc., Plano, Texas

June 1999 - April 2002

Founder, Chairman, CEO & President

Netensity, a telecommunications equipment company, focused on highly

integrated broadband data, voice, and video products for the Multi-

Dwelling and Multi-Tenant markets. The Netensity product family

integrates ATM and IP based protocols with multiple physical interfaces

such as OC-3, T1, T3, Wireless, and xDSL into highly scalable, low-cost

solutions for deployment by ILECs and CLECs both domestically and

internationally

Quickly established Netensity as innovation leader in the industry and

successfully positioned the company for a major acquisition within less

than a year of start-up operation.

Primary responsibilities include: corporate fund raising, developing

corporate business strategies, building of strategic partnerships and

relationships, customer relationship building, analyst and media

briefings, setting corporate culture and building a stellar organization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)

Arlan Harris and Associates

September 1996 - June 1999

Performed strategic planning and in-depth market analysis, developed

multiple business plans, and provided business management consulting for

various size corporations ranging from fortune 100 companies such as

Compaq to small entrepreneurial start-ups.

Compaq Dallas/NetWorth, Inc., Irving, Texas

July 1992 - September 1996

General Site Manager - Compaq Dallas/Director of Product Development -

Network Products Division

NetWorth, Inc. was acquired by Compaq Computer Corporation in December

1995. Shortly thereafter my responsibilities as Vice President of

Engineering were expanded to include the overall management of the Compaq

Dallas location. These responsibilities included: Management of 350

local employees, Chairman of the Transition Team between the two

companies, and a broader role in the definition, development, and support

of new and existing products including: market assessment, implementation

of additional partnerships with technology leaders in the industry, and

due diligence for equity investments and/or acquisitions. The

engineering infrastructure also began significant growth that included

product development being managed out of Dallas at four geographical

locations.

Vice President of Engineering and Corporate Officer - NetWorth

Responsible for managing the corporation's research, development, product

assurance, and customer technical support activities. These activities

include development and support of hardware, firmware and software for

data communication products and protocols for some of the industries most

innovative and cost effective hubs, concentrators, adapters and network

management software products. Protocols and platforms supported include:

Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, ATM, TCP/IP, Novell, NDIS,

Windows, HP OpenView, SunNet Manager, NetView6000, UNIX, SUNOS, AIX,

SNMP, RMON, PCI, ISA, and EISA.

The administrative responsibilities included building an engineering

infrastructure that supported an annual growth rate exceeding 60%

annually, personnel and fiscal responsibility including the efficient

management of a multi-million dollar R&D budget for 60+ engineers,

achievement of ISO9001 certification, patent applications, contract

negotiation and management of key third party relationships including

multi-million dollar OEM contracts for NetWorth product. (e.g., IBM, UB

NetWorks).

BancTec, Inc., Dallas, Texas - Image Processing Business Unit

July 1989 - July 1992

Independent, Technical Management Consultant

Served as Director of R & D and Continuation Engineering for the BancTec

model 5500 Financial Transaction Processing System. The 5500 system is a

real-time multi-computer system comprised of two or more multi-processor

68030/VMEbus based imaging subsystems running under OS/9, a Concurrent

3290 running OS/32, and a document transport. This system makes use of a

wide range of technology including shared SCSI disk techniques, disk

mirroring and redundancy, extensive networking (Ethernet, Token Ring, and

proprietary), multiple protocols (TCP/IP and proprietary), image

compression and expansion (CCITT3, CCITT4, and proprietary), and high

speed video and keyboard data transmission via long haul fiber optics.

Responsibilities included cost center management, administrative

responsibility for all technical resources (both hardware and software),

project definition, beta site management, budgets and schedules,

negotiation of joint technology agreements and contracts, vendor

relations, customer interfacing and technical presentations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)

Interphase Corporation, Dallas, Texas

April 1988 - July 1989

Engineering Manager - Communications

Responsible for managing the definition and development of multiple

VMEbus board products for the data communications market. Coverage of

product responsibility included all: hardware, firmware, and protocol

software programs including Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, TCP/IP, XTP, and

XNS.

As Engineering Manager I had full administrative responsibility for all

technical resources (both hardware and software), budgets and schedules,

negotiation of joint technology agreements and contracts, new product

architecture and definition, frequent customer interfacing and technical

presentations.

Electronic Data Systems, Inc., Dallas, Texas - Advanced Research Group

March 1987 - April 1988

Independent Consultant

Provided technical leadership and design expertise in the successful

development of a proprietary computer system. This system was an 80 MIPs

multi-processor system based on the Fairchild CLIPPER microprocessor,

supporting 128 Gigabytes of error corrected semi-conductor memory across

a 256-bit data path. Responsibility included all aspects of design and

development from definition through implementation, including vendor

relations.

Micronyx, Inc., Richardson, Texas

August 1986 - March 1987

Engineering Manager - Proprietary Products

Responsible for the development of TRIAD an IBM PC based security

product. Product features included: token access control, data

encryption, and audit trail monitoring. Responsibility included the

administrative management of technical resources (both hardware and

software), as well as program level management from product conception

into manufacturing.

United Technologies Mostek/Hamilton Standard, Carrollton, Texas

July 1977 - August 1986

1984-1986 Technical Program Manager

1977-1984 Senior Project Engineer/Supervisor

Responsible for the development of multiple board and system level

programs. This involved chairmanship of program teams that included

representatives from Marketing, Manufacturing, Test, Product Assurance

and other various departments. Teams were formed at product conception

and continued on into manufacturing.

Administrative and Architectural Supervision of Senior Design Engineers

for a high performance large scale real-time Fault Tolerant computer

system based on the 68020 microprocessor. System architecture involved

triple modular redundancy of multiple cache-based processors on a

proprietary bus using VMEbus subsystems for I/O.

Mostek's technical representative to the VMEbus community.

Responsibilities included co-authorship of the VMEbus specification,

Revision C. Primary authorship of the VMXbus specification. The VMEbus

specification is a public domain bus specification developed jointly by

Mostek, Motorola, and Signetics. The VMXbus is a local expansion bus

used to complement the VMEbus.

MISCELLANEOUS

Member of IEEE P1014 (VMEbus) working committee and IEEE Microcomputer

Standards committee.

U.S. Delegate to the International Electro-technical Commission (IEC).

Member of ANSI X3T9.5 FDDI Working Group.

U.S. Patent Number 5872781 Method and Apparatus for Displaying Port

Information

U.S. Patent Number 6775271 Switching System and Method for Communicating

Subscriber Information at a Customer Premise

U.S. Patent Number 7266123 System and Method for Prioritizing and

Communicating Subscriber Voice and Data Information in a Switching System

at a Customer Premise

U.S. Patent Pending, System and Method for Communicating Subscriber Voice

and Data Information in a Switching System at a Customer Premise

EDUCATION

1984 University of Texas at Dallas

Degree: Bachelor of Mathematical Science

Major: Computer Science/Electrical Engineering

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