Richard “Dick” Barcus has a distinguished 30-year career serving in senior management positions with large and small, public and private high technology companies. He has a broad background in engineering, optical technology, operations, marketing, sales, customer service and finance from his work with service providers, hardware and software system suppliers, and early stage venture capital investment firms.
Barcus has served as: general partner at Avansis Ventures, CEO of Yafo Networks, and president and COO of Tellium. In addition, he’s held several senior executive positions at ADC Telecommunications including general manager for the Metrica Division (Mobile Software) and vice president of sales and marketing for the Transmission Systems, Broadband Communications and Video Systems Divisions.
Earlier in his career, he held senior management positions in sales, marketing, customer service, product development, engineering and operations at Fujitsu Network Systems, MCI, Ameritech and NSA.
Barcus has been a keynote speaker at industry association conferences and has been published by the International Engineering Consortium. He holds a bachelor's degree from Aurora University and a master’s in business administration from George Mason University.