Dan Gatti, President, General Management, Interim CEO

Mr. Gatti has served as President and CEO of three venture backed companies. He has developed a “Strategic Business and Marketing Planning Process” focused on matching skills, talents and capabilities of companies core competence versus competition. Mr. Gatti helped establish the “Go Green” initiative at the Telecommunications Industry Association where he serves on the board of directors.

 Mr. Gatti is President and CEO of  Data Center Rebates focused on getting energy cash rebates for data center customers based on unique “Industrial Efficiency” methodology. Mr. Gatti is the founder and executive director of the Big Data I/O Forum focused on solving I/O bottlenecks in the ”Big Data” application market.  Mr. Gatti was  President and CEO of OnSite Systems selling wireless backhaul solutions, located in Santa Clara, CA. Prior to OnSite, Mr. Gatti was President and CEO of BigBangwidth selling solutions to solve security and bandwidth constraints of GRID networks. Mr. Gatti was President and CEO of MAYAN Networks, providing optical switches to the High Performance market.

Mr. Gatti has raised over $200 million dollars in three emerging companies from the top tier Venture Capital companies in Silicon Valley and secured  pre-IPO convertible debt of $75 Million from top tier investment institutions.

Mr. Gatti was the Vice President and General Manager of 3Com’s Network Service Provider Division, responsible for Internetworking products and solutions for the telecommunications industry. 3Com acquired Primary Access, a successful venture company in Remote Access products, where Mr. Gatti was Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Mr. Gatti also was President of Aptec Computer Systems providing high performance storage for video on demand and PACS markets.

At Amdahl as Vice President of Marketing, Mr. Gatti was responsible for Industry Marketing and commercial systems integration. At GTE, he was Vice President responsible for Product Management and Marketing for telecommunication systems. He also held sales and marketing management positions at IBM’s Data Processing business for 15 years.

Mr. Gatti is on the board of directors of CallGenie a public company and leading provider of mobile search and advertising solutions. Mr. Gatti is on the board of directors of TIA, the Telecommunications Industry Association and is a charter member of the San Diego Chapter of TiE Indus. Mr. Gatti is an investment and business development advisor to Industry Canada promoting the advantages of doing development in Canada, which is more cost effective that India or China. Mr. Gatti is chairman of ekidsmovies.com a kid’s safe download site for G and PG movies.

Mr. Gatti has a BA from Fairfield University and completed the executive MBA program at the Harvard Advanced Business School.