Leadership Team
President & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Senior Vice President, Operations
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development
Vice President, Global Marketing
Vice President, Corporate Counsel
Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Business Development
Vice President, Services & Systems Engineering
Vice President & Corporate Controller
Vice President, North America Sales
Vice President, Manufacturing Operations
Vice President, Product Management
Vice President, Engineering - Wireless Products
Jerry Guo
President & Chief Executive Officer
Jerry Guo is the founder of our company, has served as our president and chief executive officer and as the chairman of our board of directors since our founding in 2003. Prior to founding our company, Mr. Guo served as the Vice President of Broadband at River Delta Networks, which was acquired by Motorola in 2001. Prior to that, Mr. Guo was a research scientist at Bell Laboratories’ research division. Mr. Guo holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. degree in optical instruments from the Department of Precision Instruments at Tsinghua University.
Gary Hall
Chief Financial Officer
Gary Hall has served as our chief financial officer since June 2011. Prior to joining Casa, from April 2007 to March 2010, Mr. Hall was the chief financial officer of eCopy, a provider of document management solutions. From August 2004 to June 2006, he served as the chief financial officer of MatrixOne, a product lifecycle management company, where he had previously served as controller from April 1999 to August 2004. Previously, Mr. Hall served in various accounting and auditing roles at Deloitte & Touche, a multinational professional services firm. Mr. Hall holds a M.S. degree in finance from Bentley College and a B.A. degree in accounting from Southern New Hampshire University.
Weidong Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Weidong Chen has served as our chief technology officer since 2004 and as a member of our board of directors since 2010. Prior to joining Casa, Mr. Chen served as a software manager at Motorola, a multinational telecommunications company from October 2001 to November 2003. Mr. Chen holds a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Lucy Xie
Senior Vice President, Operations
Lucy Xie has served as our senior vice president of operations since 2011 and as a member of our board of directors since 2003. From 2003 to 2011, Ms. Xie served as our chief financial officer and vice president of operations. Prior to joining Casa, Ms. Xie held various accounting, finance and management positions at Raytheon, a U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation, and Lucent Technologies, a telecommunications equipment company. Ms. Xie has also served as the vice chairman and a board member of the Asia-America Chamber of Commerce since 2015. Ms. Xie holds an M.B.A. degree in accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Scott Bruckner
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development
Scott Bruckner has served as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development since November 2017. Prior to joining Casa, Mr. Bruckner was a senior managing director at Macquarie Capital USA in the firm’s TMET group. Previously, he worked for Perella Weinberg Partners, where he was a partner leading the firm’s Global Technology Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory effort. Mr. Buckner also worked in various senior leadership positions for Morgan Stanley including Managing Director, where he co-headed the European Technology Investment Banking Group, and also served as a senior member of the Firm’s European Communications and Media Investment Banking Group. Scott was one of the founding members of the firm’s Moscow office and later moved to London where he formally joined the Communications Investment Banking Group, focusing on wireless service providers and wireless technologies. Mr. Bruckner holds a Ph.D. degree in political science and economics and a M.A. degree in political science from the University of California.
Paul Hanna
Vice President, Global Marketing
Mr. Hanna has served as the vice president of global marketing at Casa since February 2015. Prior to joining Casa Systems, Mr. Hanna was vice president of marketing for Ericsson’s North American market where he was responsible for strategic marketing, tactical marketing, lead generation and business development for the company’s largest region. Prior to this, from 1998-2001, he was vice president of marketing and product development for Powertel, Inc. a wireless service provider purchased by Deutsche Telekom in 2001 helping to create T-Mobile USA. Mr. Hanna started his career at Hughes Aircraft Company (1984-1987) and then General Electric (1987-1995); holding a number of cross-functional leadership positions in marketing, sales, business development, operations, and engineering. Mr. Hanna is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School and graduate of its General Management Program. He holds M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Syracuse University.
Todd Keebaugh
Vice President, Corporate Counsel
Mr. Keebaugh has served as vice president and corporate counsel for Casa Systems since 2016. Before joining Casa, Mr. Keebaugh held senior legal positions at a number of leading technology companies. Most recently he was vice president and chief legal officer of Cognex Corporation where he managed Cognex’s worldwide legal affairs, contract and compliance matters. Previously, he served as commercial counsel at EMC, and prior to that, worked in various positions for Raytheon Company as senior counsel for several of Raytheon’s commercial electronics business units and later as senior counsel for Raytheon’s corporate M&A activities and Global Supply Chain organization. Mr. Keebaugh started his career with the United States Department of Justice. Mr. Keebaugh holds a Bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. degree from California Western School of Law.
Abraham Pucheril
Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Business Development
Abraham Pucheril has served as our senior vice president of worldwide sales since August 2012. Prior to joining Casa, Mr. Pucheril was the vice president of sales at Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., a communications network equipment provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, from April 2005 to July 2012. Prior to joining Fujitsu, Mr. Pucheril served as area vice president of sales for Alcatel North America, a telecommunications conglomerate, from April 2003 to April 2005, and regional vice president of sales of Atoga Systems, a provider of advanced video and data transmission systems that was acquired by Arris Systems, Inc., from January 2002 to April 2003. He started his professional career with Bell Canada. Mr. Pucheril holds a B.E. degree in electronics and communications engineering from Mangalore University, an M.E. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Anna University and an M.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Bill Leslie
Vice President, Services & Systems Engineering
Mr. Leslie has served as vice president of global services and systems engineering for Casa Systems since 2014. Before joining Casa, Mr. Leslie held senior management positions at a number of leading technology companies. Most recently he was senior director of global services product line management for Arris where he managed the global services business that included consulting, systems integration, deployment, training and technical support. Additionally, he served as senior director of professional services and vice president of assurance solution sales at Arris. Mr. Leslie also served as vice president of worldwide sales at Auspice Corporation, a leading provider of operations support systems (OSS) service assurance solutions for cable and multi-service operators. Prior to that, Mr. Leslie worked for NMS Communications where he served as vice president of global sales operations. Mr. Leslie holds a Bachelors degree from Princeton University.
Shaun McCarthy
Vice President & Corporate Controller
Mr. McCarthy has served as vice president of finance and corporate controller for Casa Systems since June 2014. Before joining Casa, he was vice president, corporate controller and chief accounting officer of Dynamics Research Corporation where he was responsible for directing and providing leadership to accounting, finance, external reporting, treasury, tax and government compliance for a provider of solutions and services to federal, state, and local governments and agencies. Previously, Mr. McCarthy was vice president of finance and corporate controller for Axcelis Technologies and prior to that, he worked in various leadership positions within the company’s finance and business operations teams as well as Axcelis’s global sales and service division. Mr. McCarthy holds an M.B.A. degree in accounting and a B.S. degree in finance from Bentley College.
Mike Chouinard
Vice President, North America Sales
Mr. Chouinard has served as vice president of North American sales since 2015. Prior to joining Casa, he was vice president of sales at C-COR, a communications services company that was acquired by Arris Systems, Inc., from 2007 – 2015. Mr. Chouinard also served as director of sales at Ellacoya, a broadband networks communications equipment company and vice president of sales at Voxpath, a VoIP communications solutions provider. Mr. Chouinard started and successfully managed his own company, US Fiber, before selling it in 1996. Prior to this, he was director of sales at Lucent Technologies. Mr. Chouinard holds a B.A. degree in finance from Metropolitan University.
Jeff Gatto
Vice President, Manufacturing Operations
Mr. Gatto has served as vice president of vice president of manufacturing operations sales since January 2017. Prior to joining Casa, he was senior vice president of engineering and supply chain at Whoop, Inc., a manufacturer of heart rate monitors used to provide performance feedback to professional and elite athletes. Previously, Mr. Gatto served as principal and managing director for Global Ops, a consulting firm focused on business re-engineering and operational excellence. He was also senior vice president of sales for Myriant, a development stage industrial biotechnology company and vice president of operations and supply chain at Tyco Safety, a provider of video surveillance and access control products. Previously, Mr. Gatto held various senior leadership positions in operations and supply chain for 3COM. Mr. Gatto holds a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University and B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts University.
Andrew Gibbs
Vice President, Product Management
Vice President, Product Management
Mr. Gibbs has served as vice president of product management at Casa since 2014. He brings over a decade of prior wireless experience managing the industry-leading wireless subscriber management solutions at Starent Networks and Cisco Systems. His broader career includes tenure at the core Internet routing infrastructure supplier, Avici Systems and the Long Distance, Local & Multimedia business units at Sprint. Andrew has numerous industry patents in areas ranging from Policy Enforcement and Multi-Radio Management for LTE Backhaul Networks. Mr. Gibbs holds an M.B.A. degree from the Guizueta Business School at Emory University and a B.A. degree from the University of Rochester.
Ruicong Li
Vice President, Engineering - Wireless Products
Vice President, Engineering - Wireless Products
Mr. Li has served as vice president of engineering, wireless products and previously as director of engineering, wireless products for Casa Systems since October 2012. Before joining Casa, Mr. Li held various engineering leadership positions at a number of leading technology companies. Most recently, he was tech leader at Starent Networks, later purchased by Cisco Systems, where he designed, managed and implemented key software platforms and subsystems. Previously, Mr. Li served as senior software engineer at Ennovate Networks, a provider of carrier-class IP service provisioning products, and prior to that, he served as a kernel software consultant for Sitara Networks, a provider of network performance solutions for enterprises and service providers. Mr. Li holds a M.S. degree from the National University of Singapore and a B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Board of Directors
President & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Senior Vice President, Operations
Board of Directors & Managing Director, Summit Partners
Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Jerry Guo
President & Chief Executive Officer
Jerry Guo is the founder of our company, has served as our president and chief executive officer and as the chairman of our board of directors since our founding in 2003. Prior to founding our company, Mr. Guo served as the vice president of broadband at River Delta Networks, which was acquired by Motorola in 2001. Prior to that, Mr. Guo was a research scientist at Bell Laboratories’ research division. Mr. Guo holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. degree in optical instruments from the Department of Precision Instruments at Tsinghua University.
Weidong Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Weidong Chen has served as our chief technology officer since 2004 and as a member of our board of directors since 2010. Prior to joining Casa, Mr. Chen served as a software manager at Motorola, a multinational telecommunications company from October 2001 to November 2003. Mr. Chen holds a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Lucy Xie
Senior Vice President, Operations
Lucy Xie has served as our senior vice president of operations since 2011 and as a member of our board of directors since 2003. From 2003 to 2011, Ms. Xie served as our chief financial officer and vice president of operations. Prior to joining Casa, Ms. Xie held various accounting, finance and management positions at Raytheon, a U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation, and Lucent Technologies, a telecommunications equipment company. Ms. Xie has also served as the vice chairman and a board member of the Asia-America Chamber of Commerce since 2015. Ms. Xie holds an M.B.A. degree in accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Bruce Evans
Board of Directors & Managing Director, Summit Partners
Board of Directors & Managing Director, Summit Partners
Bruce Evans has been a director of our company since 2010. Since 1986, Mr. Evans has served in various positions with Summit Partners, a venture capital and investment firm, including most recently as a Managing Director and the Chairman of Summit Partners’ Board of Managers. He is also currently a director of Analog Devices, a public company that designs and manufactures high-performance semiconductor products, as well as several private companies. Mr. Evans previously served as a director of more than a dozen public companies, including, from May 2012 to November 2014, FleetCor Technologies, a provider of fuel cards and workforce payment products and services. Mr. Evans holds a B.E. degree in mechanical engineering and economics from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.
Bill Styslinger
Board of Directors
Bill Styslinger has been a director of our company since 2012. Mr. Styslinger served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of SeaChange International, a provider of multiscreen video software and services, from its inception in July 1993 until his retirement in November 2011. Mr. Styslinger was also previously a member of the board of directors of Omtool, a provider of enterprise client/server facsimile software solutions. Mr. Styslinger holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Joe Tibbetts
Board of Directors
Joe Tibbetts has been a director of our company since November 2017. Since March 2017, Mr. Tibbetts has served as the interim chief financial officer of Acquia Corporation, a provider of cloud-based, digital experience management solutions. Prior to that, Mr. Tibbetts served as the senior vice president and chief financial officer of the Publicis.Sapient unit of Publicis Group SA, from February 2015, when Publicis acquired Sapient Corporation, to September 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Tibbetts served as senior vice president and global chief financial officer for Sapient Corporation from October 2006 to February 2015. Mr. Tibbetts was formerly a partner with Price Waterhouse LLP. Mr. Tibbetts currently serves on the board of directors of Vivint Solar, Inc., a provider of smart home technology, and several private companies. Mr. Tibbetts holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of New Hampshire.
Dan Mead
Board of Directors
Dan Mead has served on the board of directors of Syniverse Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded business services company in the mobile communications industry, since December 2016. For over thirty-five years, Mr. Mead served in various leadership roles at Verizon Communications and its predecessor companies, including serving from October 2010 to July 2015 as the chief executive officer and president of Verizon Wireless and from October 2009 to October 2010 as the chief operating officer and executive vice president of Verizon Wireless. Mr. Mead was also one of the founding senior executives of Verizon Wireless in July 2000. Mr. Mead served as the chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, or CTIA, from July 2013 until December 2014 and served as a member of the boards of directors of the CTIA from September 2010 until March 2015 and of Vodafone Omnitel from September 2009 until October 2010. Mr. Mead also served on the Board of Trustees at Pennsylvania State University from July 2014 to July 2017, including as chairman of its Finance and Capital Planning Committee. Mr. Mead has a B.S. in quantitative business analysis and finance from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from Pennsylvania State University.
