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With over 15 years of experience in the technology industry, Mr. Steinmann brings extensive experience in marketing and strategic planning to his role as Vice President of Product Management. Martin is also a founder and member of the governing board at SIPfoundry, the industry's leading open source community dedicated to VoIP technology and solutions. Previously, Martin was a Venture Partner first with St. Paul Venture Capital and later Vesbridge Parnters, a Boston based venture capital firm specialized in early stage and special situations opportunities in the networking and IT market. Martin has also served as Vice President Marketing for Syndesis Inc, the leading provider of operations support systems fulfillment solutions to tier-one carriers worldwide. Martin also has experience in various executive roles at Lucent Technologies and at Switzerland based Ascom AG. While at Lucent, he was responsible for Lucent's OEM agreement and subsequent acquisition of Yurie Systems Inc., a deal worth more than $1 billion in cash. Martin earned a BSc and MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a PhD in Physics from the Danish Technical University in Copenhagen. During his PhD work he conducted critical research in tunable multi-section DFB/DBR semiconductor lasers, a vital component for today's DWDM optical transmission systems. | 