What Happened?

San Jose, CA-based ADARA Networks has Appointed Sue Hares as Vice President of Technology

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About the Person

Technology veteran Sue Hares has joined the company as vice president of technology and strategy. Hares has more than 30 years of experience in designing and deploying routing protocols and architectures and is active in the Internet Standards. She currently co-chairs the Inter-Domain Routing Group , and is a co-author on the BGP specification; used to make the core routing decisions on the Internet, BGP is considered industry-wide to be the most important protocol of the Internet. In her new role, Sue will be responsible for direction of ADARA's industry-leading software defined networking technology and strategy, participation and contribution to defining SDN standards and collaborating with service providers and technology vendors in the advancement of OpenFlow, Interface to the Routing System, Network Functions Virtualization and other emerging SDN and virtualization technologies. Hares is an internationally recognized leader in commercialized advanced networking technologies and products.

Hares joins ADARA from the IPBU's Standards for the Network Product Line of Huawei Technologies, where she served as the senior director in the United States. During her tenure, Hares led a multi-national team of Internet researchers pushing the boundaries of Internet technology in optical, edge of the network SDN, and data center technology. Hares was previously director of networking solutions at Green Hills Software, where she guided a team to put routing software on a secure OS, and created the basis for a secure data center switch with multiple chassis. Previously, she was the Chief Technology Officer of NextHop Technologies, a company she founded in 2000. Hares graduated with a BS in computer engineering from University of Michigan and a masters of organizational leadership from Regent University Business School, where she is currently in the PhD Program.