Charles GershmanCharles Gershman

Charles “Chuck” Gershman has over 19 years of industry experience in executive management, marketing, engineering, sales and business development. He has directed Bay Microsystems from a pre-revenue start-up to a thriving, profitable industry leader within the communications sector.  Prior to Bay, Mr. Gershman was vice president of Sales and Business Development at Softcom Microsystems which created the SoftcomEngine™, the world's first single-chip full-duplex OC-12c network processor. Intel acquired Softcom in July 1999. Prior to Softcom, Mr. Gershman was director of Strategic Business Development at Integrated Telecom Technology (IgT), an early pioneer in developing networking IC products, including SONET Mappers, Framers and a complete line of ATM IC devices. PMC-Sierra acquired IgT in 1998. During his tenure at Bay, Softcom and IgT, Mr. Gershman has been influential in defining, developing and marketing three generations of Network Processors. Chuck has also held various engineering, marketing, sales and senior management positions at LSI Logic, Texas Instruments and Actel.  He is a named contributor to Bay’s patents in the area of broadband networking and holds a BSEE from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.