Peter Vicars

million in venture capital financing and substantially increased shareholder value. He has acquired deep domain experience in several areas of communications and software and led businesses serving large and small enterprises, residential customers and network operators.

As CEO of Chantry Networks, a venture-backed wireless networking company, Peter established Chantry to become a widely recognized technology leader in this competitive market and achieved a strong return for the company’s major investors by driving the sale of Chantry to Siemens.

Prior to Chantry, Peter was CEO of Cayman Systems, a developer of an intelligent broadband gateway platform for small offices and residential markets. At Cayman, Peter drove the dialogue with potential strategic buyers, leading to the acquisition of the company by Netopia. Previously, Peter was CEO of Tekelec, a publicly-traded supplier of diagnostic, surveillance and switching systems to the telecommunications industry. At Tekelec, Peter achieved four-fold revenue growth while maintaining double-digit profitability within the core business.

Most recently, Peter was Co-Founder and CEO of Heavy Lift Systems, an innovative clean-tech business for which he successfully secured DOE grant funding. He has also served as an independent director for a number of early-stage businesses.

Peter began his career as a software developer and progressed to company leadership through two stints running operations for high-volume hardware businesses. While most of his subsequent career has been focused on business leadership, he has retained a keen interest in the underlying technology, and at Teloquent was awarded a patent for an innovative network architecture he developed.