Phil Simmons
VP Engineering
Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Phil Simmons has been named Vice President of Engineering at Meru Networks.
About Phil
Prior to joining Meru Networks, Phil was responsible for DSL Engineering at Motorola following the acquisition of Netopia where he served as Sr. VP of Engineering. Prior to Netopia, he held various hardware and systems architecture engineering positions at StarNet Technologies, AMD, Retix and GEC.
Phil holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Portsmouth (England) and holds nine patents relating to Ethernet, QoS and PCI.
About Meru Networks
Founded in 2002, Meru Networks provides a virtualized wireless LAN solution that cost-effectively optimizes the enterprise network to deliver the performance, reliability, predictability and operational simplicity of a wired network, with the advantages of mobility.
Placement Update
Since joining Meru, Phil has been promoted to SVP of Engineering.
Meru was one of only a few technology companies to go public in 2010. My focus today is to build a high performance organization and we needed a world-class engineering leader. I am excited that Phil has joined our team. He is one of a very small corps of executives able to take on this opportunity.
Ihab Abu-Hakima, CEO, Meru Networks
I am excited to join Meru Networks as VP of Engineering and I look forward to helping contribute as the company continues to innovate the Wi-Fi experience.
Phil Simmons, VP Engineering, Meru Networks
Meru CTO and founder Dr. Vaduvur Bharghavan set out to transition the engineering group to new leadership. Executive changes like this where the founder steps into a new role require very thoughtful process on all sides. I was impressed at how the team worked together to ensure we secured the best possible outcome.
Mark Lonergan, Founder & Managing Partner, Lonergan Partners