SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Netronome, the leading developer of network flow processors, today announced Howard Bubb as the company’s new president and chief executive officer and Perry Grace as chief financial officer. Bubb brings more than 20 years of experience with success in leading growth for a number of semiconductor and communications companies including Dialogic and Intel's Communications Infrastructure Group. Netronome founder and CEO, Niel Viljoen, who has been responsible for the company's technology vision, will become chief development officer. Grace brings extensive business and financial knowledge from high-tech industries with a history of driving sales and leading companies to successful IPOs.

"Over the past 10 months I have been working with Howard and the relationship grew to culminate in Howard joining as CEO. I am confident that he is the right person to lead Netronome at this time of record growth," said Viljoen. "Flow processing has become intrinsic to all new product designs as the network becomes increasingly context-aware and secure. Personally, I look forward to turning my full attention to the development efforts that will keep Netronome at the leading edge of flow processing."

A strategic leader with a deep understanding of the market, Bubb most recently served as chairman and chief executive officer of fabless semiconductor company Ambric until its acquisition by Nethra in 2009. Previously, he held executive management positions at Intel including corporate officer and vice president of Intel's $1.7B Communications Infrastructure Group (CIG) which led the industry in network processors, embedded application processors, 10G optical modules and modular communications platforms. Bubb joined Intel through its acquisition of Dialogic, where he was CEO. Bubb holds a number of patents and currently serves on the board of multiple organizations including Calxeda.

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