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Mr. Knitowski is Chairman of Caneum, Inc. (OTC BB: CANM), a business process and information technology outsourcing services company. He is also Chairman of Trycera Financial, Inc. (OTC BB: TRYF), a financial services company specializing in customized and turnkey prepaid MasterCard© and Visa© debit cards and catalog shopping cards. Mr. Knitowski is Founder and Managing Director of Ecewa Capital Group LLC, Co-Founder and Co-Manager of Trymetris Capital Management LLC and the Trymetris Capital Fund I LLC, Advisor of Edgewater Networks, Inc. and Angel Investor of numerous technology, media, biotechnology and energy companies.
Previously, Mr. Knitowski was Co-Founder and Director of Telverse Communications, a next-generation advanced services ASP focused on wholesale communications services for carriers, service providers and value-added resellers, which was acquired in July 2003 by Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT). Most recently, Mr. Knitowski was Director of Marketing for the Voice Technology Group at Cisco Systems and was responsible for business, market and community development, including business planning and strategy for Cisco’s global packet communications initiatives. In November 2000, Mr. Knitowski joined Cisco as part of the Vovida Networks acquisition, where he served as Co-Founder, President and CEO and led the company from idea conception through its eventual acquisition by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO).
In the past, Mr. Knitowski was an Angel Investor and Director of vCIS, a proactive software behavior analysis and anti-virus security company, and helped negotiate and structure its acquisition by Internet Security Systems (NASDAQ: ISSX) in October 2002. Additionally, he was a Founding Director of both the Open Multimedia Protocol Alliance (OMPA) and the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC) in 1999, which were subsequently merged and scaled to nearly 200 companies prior to renaming itself to become the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) in 2003. During his tenure at the consortium, Mr. Knitowski served as its Vice Chairman, Co-Chair of its Government Liaison Working Group and one of its external evangelists.
Previously, Mr. Knitowski worked in various operational, line management and consulting roles with The Results Group, Nortel Networks, Hewlett Packard and the United States Army, where he served as an Airborne, Air Assault and Ranger qualified Captain in the Corps of Engineers both domestically and abroad. Mr. Knitowski holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MS in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in industrial engineering from the University of Miami. He has delivered and moderated general and executive sessions at various events and conferences within the communications industry, has appeared on radio and television to discuss next-generation networking, packet communications and outsourcing and has delivered educational sessions on next-generation networking and packet communications to the United States Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Knitowski resides in Newport Coast, California, with his wife Kelly and their four young children. | 