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.
I had a mentor early in my career, a gentleman by the name of Alan Tapper who was an engineering manager and he used to say a person's success is ultimately measured more by how they fix what they do wrong than what they do right. And I've really lived by that. I think, that's actually a critical ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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