Emerick Woods

President & CEO

Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Emerick Woods has been named President and CEO at Talari Networks.

About Emerick

Emerick Woods brings more than 30 years of global experience in enterprise software, services and networking hardware to move Talari Networks into the next phase of its growth and innovation. He has founded and led a number of early- to mid-stage high technology companies as well as completed two initial public offerings. Most recently, Emerick served as CEO of Global IP Solutions (GIPS), a public company that provides media processing software for voice over IP (VoIP) and video conferencing solutions, that was acquired by Google in 2010.

Emerick holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a BS degree in Computer Science from Yale University.

About Talari Networks

Talari Networks’ WAN Virtualization solutions bring Internet economics to corporate WANs by transforming broadband and other affordable Internet links to deliver business-class reliability and performance predictability at consumer prices. Talari Networks delivers 30 to 100 times the bandwidth per dollar, reduces ongoing WAN costs from 40%–90%, and provides greater reliability than existing corporate WANS.

Emerick is the right executive to drive top-line growth and achieve operational scale. His demonstrated leadership capabilities and vision for the potential of Talari’s innovative technology suite is a perfect fit with the leadership position Talari has achieved in WAN Virtualization.

Jeff Thermond, Chairman of the Board, Talari Netowkrs

I’m very excited about the opportunities ahead for Talari Networks. Talari’s award-winning WAN Virtualization technology is redefining the traditional economics of some of today’s most important networking trends. I look forward to working with the team and further executing on the large market opportunity ahead of us.

Emerick Woods, President & CEO, Talari Networks

The appointment of CEO Emerick Woods is proof that exceptional leaders can be recruited to young high-growth companies. Emerick is a distinguished leader with a track record of turning companies like Talari Networks into globally respected technology firms.

Mark Lonergan, Founder & Managing Partner, Lonergan Partners