Felix Zhao

Founder & CEO of Cassia Networks

San Jose, California, United States

About

• Strong strategic planner and team builder with a blend of startup and large corporate experience. • Inspirational executive with ability to gain consensus and evangelize vision. • Hands-on leader with deep technical credibility, a clear understanding of the business context and demonstrated ability to effectively partner with all stakeholders and cross functional teams. • Record of delivering market leading products while forging strong, profitable business relationships. • Driven to discover and fulfill customer needs better than any competitor. Apply creative vision, high standards and broad technical expertise to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. • Sales and marketing experience, strong business network and personally comfortable working in Asia. • Create an environment where people are engaged and enable them to do their best. • Strong communication skills; ability to communicate in multiple languages: English, Chinese, Japanese; enthusiastic and compelling public speaker; practice open communication to get at the core issues.

Experience

  • Founder & CEO & President at Cassia Networks Inc.
    Jan 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 6 mos

  • VP & GM of Asia Pacific at Sensys Networks
    Nov 2012 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • VP, Mesh Technology at Aruba Networks
    2010 - Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Azalea Networks was acquired by Aruba Networks on Sep 2, 2010

  • Azalea networks (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • Co-founder & Co-CEO
      2008 - 2010 · 2 yrs

    • Co-founder, CTO & VP of R&D
      2005 - 2008 · 3 yrs

  • Senior Technical Staff, Inventor at Cisco Systems
    1998 - 2005 · 7 yrs