Jim Jordan, Vice President of Business Development Jim Jordan s vision is to create products for his customers that enable them to do what they couldn t do before faster, easier and simpler. That focus on usability from the customer s perspective has infused his career, which encompasses 17 years in software development, hardware development and project management. Jim likes to see things as they should be, not as they are. He loves the ongoing challenge of not knowing what each new day will bring. His ability to bring these insights to market has resulted in a long track record of success in embedded real-time systems in the telephony and Internet infrastructure industries. Jim holds over 17 patents pertaining to firewall, server load-balancing and failover technologies. In addition to Steelbox Networks, Jim has held senior positions at Digital Transmission Systems, Scientific-Atlanta, Cisco Systems, Pharsalia Technologies, Alteon Websystems and Nortel Networks. He likes that Steelbox s management team is a broad mix of personalities and skill sets, and that many of its executives have worked together on different projects for different companies over a long range of time. This balance has created a strong team that knows what it takes to build a business and revolutionize a market.