Charles T. Olson serves as Senior Vice President of Engineering. He joined NETGEAR in January 2003 as Vice President of Engineering. From July 1978 to January 2003 Mr. Olson worked at Hewlett-Packard Company a computer and test equipment company where he served as Director of Research and Development for ProCurve Networking from 1998 to 2003 as Research and Development Manager for the Enterprise Netserver division from 1997 to 1998 and prior to that in various other engineering management roles in Hewlett-Packard's Unix server and personal computer product divisions. Mr. Olson received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Davis and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. |