Chelsio Communications Completes Executive Management Team

Chelsio Communications today announced the appointments of John Brennan, former Sun Microsystems engineering vice president, and Eric Taborek, former sales and marketing executive with Intel Corporation, to senior staff positions at the company, both reporting to Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO. Brennan comes to Chelsio from Sun Microsystems, where he was vice president of hardware engineering for Sun's midrange and high-end servers. He will oversee the hardware and software engineering teams at Chelsio, which is leading the technology advancement of 10G Ethernet server adapter cards and protocol offload. Taborek joins Chelsio from Intel Corporation, where he most recently managed Intel's worldwide relationships with key industry partners, including Cisco Systems. Taborek joined Intel following its acquisition of VxTel, where he was vice president of sales and marketing. "Both John and Eric bring outstanding track records of achievement to Chelsio Communications," said Naghshineh. "John's deep knowledge and management experience in server hardware design will be a tremendous asset to maintaining our technology leadership position, and Eric's proven ability to manage critical industry relationships and grow revenue will be instrumental in helping Chelsio achieve industry-wide deployment. These additions complete the Chelsio senior management team as we prepare the company for rapid growth."