Michael Sharma - Chief Executive Officer

As CEO of Exinda Networks, Michael Sharma is responsible for managing the day-to-day business operations of the company.  Prior to joining Exinda, Michael was chief operating officer and president at PlateSpin Ltd., a software company acquired in March, 2008 by Novell Inc. for $205 million.  Prior to PlateSpin, he was the vice president of worldwide sales for Platform Computing. Michael brings more than 20 years of technology industry experience and extensive operational, technical and sales expertise to Exinda. Michael also served as president of Netscape Canada and in various management roles at Oracle Corporation (Canada) and Amdahl.

Efrem Ainsley - Chief Financial Officer

Efrem Ainsley is responsible for all of Exinda’s financial activities with the Finance, Administration and Marketing departments reporting to him. Efrem brings more than 15 years of experience as a financial professional with broad experience in financial reporting, corporate finance and compliance functions for growing technology companies.  Prior to joining Exinda, Efrem was CFO for PlateSpin.  Earlier in his career, he was vice president and corporate controller with Open Text Corporation, one of Canada's largest and most profitable software companies and served as director of Finance for Cyberplex Inc, a public company and one of North America's leading technology consulting firms.

Con Nikolouzakis - Chief Product Officer

Con Nikolouzakis co-founded Exinda networks in 2002 after a successful career in Goldman Sachs JBWere and Verizon Business where he was architect for network security and infrastructure. Con has been optimizing networks on a global scale for over 10 years and is one of the world leading figures in Traffic Reporting and WAN Performance Management. Con has a very strong grasp of the technologies used and the impact at a business level.

His qualifications include a Communications and Computer Engineering Honours degree at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Con has gained a number of technical and management accreditations throughout his career.

Chris Siakos - Chief Technology Officer

Before co-founding Exinda Networks, Chris has had over 10 years of experience in the IP communications industry with a strong focus in the field of academic research and idea incubation. He joined the Centre for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT, RMIT University Australia) working on IP optimization products for carriers including Telstra, Optus & Telekom Malaysia.

Qualifications include a Bachelor of Telecommunications Engineering from RMIT University, Australia.

Jim Christie - VP, Worldwide Sales

Jim Christie was named Vice President, Worldwide Sales for Exinda Networks in January 2007. Jim has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise level software sales and management of organizations producing enterprise level hardware and software. As Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Jim is responsible for maintaining relationships with existing clients, attracting new clients and building the channel of distributors, partners and resellers throughout the world.

Prior to Exinda, Jim worked for Aprisma Management Technologies as Managing Director of Asia Pacific. Jim previously worked for EMC, as Division Manager for their Open Systems division; Sanyo, as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for UNIX Systems and Network Storage and MAI Basic Four, where he held a number of positions including Director of Product Marketing, National Sales Manager for Large Systems and Vice President of Worldwide Marketing.

Jim holds a Ph.D. from Kansas State University, Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southwestern College.

Stan Schreyer - VP, North American Sales

Stan Schreyer is a pioneer in the field of computer product sales.  He brings more than 25 years experience in building and managing sales teams as well as architecting and implementing channel programs.  

Prior to joining Exinda, Stan held positions at Firetide Corporation as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Vice President of North American Sales.  During his tenure at Firetide, he grew revenue 400 percent per year while establishing the company as a market leader.  Previously, he spent 10 years at Marketlink Technologies being promoted from Regional Director to Chief Executive Officer of the company.  While at Marketlink, he launched many successful companies including NetScreen, RIM and Barracuda Networks. 

Stan is a graduate of the University of Utah.

Dave Ryder - VP Sales, United Kingdom

Dave has more than 20 years experience in the networking industry. Having started his career at Case Communications, a UK manufacturer of Data Switching Equipment within the technical support group.

Following a successful career at Case,Ryder moved to Tricom Communications, a UK based Network Integrator as part of the original management team and held a number of management roles within sales and marketing. Tricom was later sold to Dimension Data. Ryder has also held the role of National Sales Manager for a division of Cable & Wireless.