Management
M. Kenneth Oshman, Executive Chairman of the Board
Robert R. Maxfield, President and CEO
Oliver "Chris" Stanfield, Executive Vice President and CFO
Michael Anderson, Senior Vice President, NES Sales and Market Development
Anders Axelsson, Senior Vice President, LWI Sales and Market Development
Kathleen Bloch, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Robert Dolin, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Russell Harris, Senior Vice President, Operations
Robert Machlin, Senior Vice President, Products
M. Kenneth Oshman, Executive Chairman of the Board
M. Kenneth Oshman has been Executive Chairman of our Board of Directors since September 1989. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of our company from December 1988 to November 2009 and President from 1988 to 2001. Mr. Oshman, with three associates, founded ROLM Corporation, a telecommunications equipment company, in 1969. He was Chief Executive Officer, President and a director at ROLM from its founding until its merger with IBM in 1984. Following the merger, he became a Vice President of IBM and a member of its Corporate Management Board. He remained in that position until 1986. Prior to founding ROLM, Mr. Oshman was a member of the technical staff at Sylvania Electric Products from 1963 to 1969. Mr. Oshman also serves as a director of Sun Microsystems. Mr. Oshman earned B.A. and B.S.E.E. degrees from Rice University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Robert R. Maxfield, President and CEO
Robert R. Maxfield joined Echelon as President and CEO in November 2009. He has been a director of our company since 1989. He was a co-founder of ROLM in 1969, and served as Executive Vice President and a director until ROLM’s merger with IBM in 1984. Following the merger, he continued to serve as Vice President of ROLM until 1988. Since 1988, he has been a private investor. Dr. Maxfield was a consulting professor in the Management Science and Engineering department at Stanford University from 1988 to 2007 and a venture partner with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, from 1989 to 1992. Dr. Maxfield received B.A. and B.S.E.E. degrees from Rice University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Oliver "Chris" Stanfield, Executive Vice President and CFO
Chris Stanfield joined Echelon from ROLM Corporation, where he held several positions since 1980, including director of pricing at IBM's ROLM Systems; vice president, plans and controls; vice president, business planning; vice president, financial planning and analysis; and treasurer and controller, Mil Spec Division. Before joining ROLM, Stanfield worked for ITEL Corporation as director of inventory control and analysis and controller of the San Diego Manufacturing Operation; for Computer Automation as a division controller; and for Rockwell International as manager of accounting, manager of financial planning, and senior internal auditor. He began his business career with Ford Motor Company in 1969 with various accounting positions while completing his M.B.A. and B.S. degrees at the University of Southern California.
Michael Anderson, Senior Vice President, NES Sales and Market Development
Michael Anderson joined Echelon from Telcordia Technologies, where he was president of the Next Generation software division, responsible for vision and strategy as well as the sales, alliances, go to market and product development teams. Anderson has also held senior executive roles at variety of high growth and established telecommunications & high technology organizations. He began his career at AT&T. Anderson was recently noted as one of the Global Telecom Business top 100 industry executives. Anderson earned a BA at the University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences in Seattle and completed a fellowship at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Anders Axelsson, Senior Vice President, LWI Sales and Market Development
Anders Axelsson joined Echelon in 2003 from PowerFile, a private optical storage company where he was CEO. He started his career with ABB Industry, where he served for 11 years in many sales, marketing, and engineering management positions, including director of marketing. After ABB he joined Measurex (later acquired by Honeywell) and worked in several senior positions, including vice president of business area operations and president/managing director for Europe and Africa. Following Honeywell, he joined Snap Appliances (a subsidiary of Quantum Corporation) as president and general manager for the workgroup network-attached storage business. Axelsson holds a B.S. from ED Technical Institute in Jonkoping, Sweden, and is a graduate of the Executive Program at the University of Michigan. Axelsson serves on PowerFile's board of directors.
Kathleen Bloch, Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Kathleen Bloch joined Echelon from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she was a partner with a practice in the corporate finance and securities areas. She represented both privately held and public companies in diverse technology markets, as well as in the biotech, manufacturing, retail, and financial services industries. Before that, she was a partner with the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton. Bloch received her law degree from Stanford Law School in 1981 and a B.S. in Business Administration (emphasis in Finance) from the University of Southern California in 1978, where she was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma and graduated with honors.
Robert Dolin, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Robert Dolin, Echelon’s system architect, has worked for the company since 1989. He is the principal or co-inventor of fourteen Echelon patents, and is one of the designers of the LonWorks protocol, the network development system environment, the Neuron C programming model, and LonWorks network management. In 1995 he was named chief technology officer. Before joining Echelon, Dolin spent 11 years at ROLM Corporation, where he was one of the main developers of its fully distributed PBX telephone system. He also held positions of first- and second-line management as well as system architecture. Dolin has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Russell Harris, Senior Vice President, Operations
Russell Harris began his career at Convergent Technologies, Inc./Unisys Corporation as an industrial engineer, then moved into management positions and became director of IT for Worldwide Operations at Unisys. From 1991 to1996, he was director of operations at Silicon Graphics, Inc., managing inventory and logistics, IT operations for services worldwide, and training. In 1996, he joined four others and started NetDynamics as vice president of operations and worked through its sale and integration into Sun Microsystems Inc.
Robert Machlin, Senior Vice President, Products
Robert Machlin joined Echelon after serving as president and CEO of SkyPilot Networks, a leading provider of carrier-class broadband wireless equipment. Prior to SkyPilot, Machlin held president and CEO positions at AirFlow Networks and Catena Networks (now part of Ciena). He also held executive positions at Ascend Communications (now Alcatel-Lucent), Cascade Communications (now Alcatel-Lucent), Motorola, and Honeywell Information Systems. Machlin holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.