About Zeugma

Siegfried (Sig) Luft

Siegfried Luft is the founder and CTO of Zeugma Systems and has 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Zeugma Systems, he was a co-founder of Siara Systems, which merged with Redback Networks. As founding President and General Manager of Siara Research Canada, the Canadian subsidiary, Siegfried and his team developed the first release of the SmartEdge 800, which contributed significant revenues for Redback Networks.

Prior to Siara Systems, Siegfried held a Senior Architect role and was part of the founding team at Fiberlane Communications. Fiberlane later became Cerent Corporation, which was acquired by Cisco Systems. Siegfried began his career at MPR Teltech where he held various engineering and leadership positions.

Siegfried has a number of pending patents related to optical protection mechanisms, highly scalable distributed systems, and tiered service routing. Siegfried holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Victoria.

Jeff Dillabough

Jeff Dillabough is Vice President of Engineering at Zeugma Systems with over 17 years in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Zeugma Systems, Jeff was Director of Product Development at PMC-Sierra. During his 8 years at PMC he designed the core bus for PMC's Any-Service-Any-Port line interface architecture, was responsible for a number of semiconductor devices used in PDH and lower rate SONET/SDH interfaces for routers, switches and cross-connects.

Tom Meehan

Tom Meehan is Vice President, Product Management at Zeugma Systems. Previously he spent five years at Siara Systems and Redback Networks where as Director of Product Management he had extensive exposure to broadband networks worldwide, in particular, next generation broadband deployments.

Wayne Shackelford

Wayne is Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Zeugma Systems. He has over twenty five years experience in sales, business development and third party relationships in the telecommunications industry. During his career, he has successfully managed strategic relationships with major accounts, OEMs, private label integrators, multi-territory accounts, system integrators, service providers and Tier One phone companies. He has managed worldwide sales teams consisting of sales executives, systems engineers and service support teams.

Prior to joining Zeugma, Wayne held the position of Vice President Worldwide Sales and Services at Verilink. Other organizations to which Wayne has contributed include Alidian Networks, Newbridge, Micom (a division of Nortel Networks), Gandalf Systems Corporation, Infotron Systems and Texaco Inc.

Wayne studied Business and Computer Science at Louisiana State University and is an active member of the American Management Association and IEC.

Rick Sequerth

Rick Sequerth is Vice President, International Sales and Business Development at Zeugma Systems. Prior to joining Zeugma, Rick was the Vice President of Worldwide Business Development and International Sales at Hatteras Networks. During his time at Hatteras, Rick developed the first PTT and Alternative Carrier customers as well as closing and managing the first OEM partners.

Previously Rick has held a variety of sales management, marketing and business development roles with several venture backed startups all in the Carrier Market including Crescent Networks, AirFiber, Stratacom and Primary Access. 

Rick holds a BA degree from the University of Georgia and started his career at IBM.

Justin Currie

Justin Currie is Vice President of Finance at Zeugma Systems. Prior to joining Zeugma, he spent six years at Creation Technologies Inc., a contract electronic manufacturer serving emerging technology companies with low to medium volume, high complexity requirements. In his role as Director of Finance, he supported budgeting, reporting, financing, M&A activities, business unit operations and ERP deployment programs during a period of dynamic growth.

Kevin Walsh

Kevin Walsh is Vice President of Marketing at Zeugma Systems and has over 25 years of telecommunications and networking industry experience. Prior to joining Zeugma, Kevin was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Calix, a leading supplier of broadband access solutions, where he contributed to the company's stellar growth over a six-year period. Prior to Calix, Kevin was President and COO of Irvine Networks, a developer of TCP Offload Engines. Leading the marketing efforts of many technology startups such as broadband access supplier Accelerated Networks and LAN switching innovator Xylan, Kevin helped achieve strong growth and execute successful IPOs.