Dan Simpkins founded Hillcrest Labs in 2001 with a team of experienced technical and business professionals to create a revolution in entertainment.
Prior to founding Hillcrest, Simpkins was vice president and general manager of the SALIX Switching Division of Tellabs, Inc., which was established in 2000 when he sold Voice over IP leader SALIX Technologies to Tellabs for $300 million. Simpkins founded SALIX in 1990 and continued as president and CEO through the sale.
Dan Simpkins received undergraduate and Master's degrees in engineering from Cornell University.
Many of you now know Skype. Well SALIX was one of the early pioneers in the transport equipment, the transcoding equipment that made internet telephony possible at a carrier scale. In a stroke of good fortune sometimes good luck is just as good as good brain power. We had an opportunity to sell th...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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