EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

Houman Modarres
Vice President of Marketing

Houman leads the marketing and product management functions within Hammerhead Systems, ensuring that the product direction and lifecycle management are aligned with customer needs. Prior to Hammerhead, Houman was Director of the Softswitch and IP Telephony business line at 3Com Corporation.

In this capacity, Houman was responsible for the creation and execution of the CommWorks IP Telephony Framework, which culminated in two of the most significant early service provider deployments of VoIP and SIP-based solutions worldwide. Previously, Houman served as Director of Product Marketing at Newbridge Networks, where he was responsible for the ATM WAN product line Houman also held broadband, wireless & landline telephony engineering and network planning positions at Nortel Networks (BNR).

Houman is a past Board member of the International Softswitch Consortium and has served as Chairman of the IPCC Marketing Committee and has served as the Vice Chair of the ATM Forum Marketing Committee.

Houman holds an MBA from the University of California Berkeley and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.