We are Canopus Networks
Canopus Networks is an Australian company offering an affordable network visibility management solution driven by two emerging technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) and programmable switch (P4) technology. Canopus Networks originated from years of research on Software Defined Networking (SDN) at UNSW Sydney supported by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Google, HPE, Cisco and major Telecoms players in Australia. The research pioneered the use of programmable network techniques for traffic classification and application experience measurement.
Board
David Spence
Chairman
David has been involved in over 20 internet-related businesses as Chairman, CEO, Director, major shareholder or advisor in Australia since the 90s including OzEmail, Unwired Limited and Vocus Communications (ASX:VOC). He also has previously held the role of Chairman for Paypal Australia and the Internet Industry Association. He is currently Chairman of Discovery Ag, and Non Executive Director of Netcomm Wireless Limited.
Hakan Eriksson
Director
Hakan is a globally experienced technology leader, having previously held the roles of CEO of Ericsson ANZ, and Group CTO at Telstra (ASX:TLS). He has a proven track record of predicting strategic direction and driving organisations to benefit, by engaging with and across partners, industries, and standards bodies, including commercialisation, and is named personally on 15 patents.
Alistair McCreadie
Director
Alistair is currently the CIO of IP Group Australia and has over 20 years experience in investment banking and investment management. Most recently he ran a consulting firm covering IP commercialisation, early stage company development, government innovation policy and development and institutional investment in early-stage companies. Prior to this he was an adviser to, and managed investments in, a number of Australian university commercialisation funds.
Rob Appel
Director
Rob has over 20 years of experience with Australian businesses as a manager with OzEmail founder of ChaosMusic, Australia’s first online music service, and Australian Broadband Services / AusBBS, an ISP which was acquired by Amaysim in 2016. Rob has also served on association boards including AMRA (Australian Music Retailers Association) and Compete (Alliance for Digital Competition).
Stephen Cornish
Director
Stephen Cornish is the founder and managing director of Pentanet (ASX:5GG) and Pentanet.GG Esports. Stephen founded Pentanet in 2017 to bring Perth’s internet quality up to speed with ultra-fast wireless solutions backed by local customer service and support. After building the largest fixed wireless network in Perth and delivering on his initial vision for Pentanet, Stephen set his sights on diversifying the company’s footprint through the...
Leadership
Vijay Sivaraman
Co-Founder & CEO
Vijay is Co-Founder, Director, and CEO of Canopus Networks. He was an early engineer in a silicon valley start-up manufacturing optical switch-routers, and has done extensive product architecture, development, and operations of carrier-grade solutions for Telcos. He is a tenured Professor at UNSW Sydney, co-founder of the ANZ SDN Alliance , and has raised millions of dollars for SDN and IoT technologies from government, defence, and private industry. He holds 4 patents,...
Himal Kumar
Co-Founder & CTO
Himal is Co-Founder and CTO of Canopus Networks. Himal has years of experience in building production grade SDN solutions and has engineered multiple SDN/NFV applications deployed and trialed in research and production networks. He is also experienced in architecting and building scalable and efficient network applications which leverage programmable hardware. He has been a key contributor to many open-source SDN projects.
Jason Roberts
Senior Vice President - APAC
Jason is an experienced sales veteran with 25+ years in the ANZ and APAC Telecommunications market. With a strong background in Calibration, Test and Measurement and mobile networks going back to the GPRS days in the late 1990s, Jason is ideally placed to bring Canopus' unique capabilities to the Service Provider and Online Gaming markets across APAC.
Vikram Shanbhag
Senior Vice President - Americas
Vikram has joined Canopus with 20+ years of global leadership experience and strong professional network for business setup, growth and profitability. In previous roles Vikram has led profitable growth in diverse markets - Americas (NA & LATAM), Europe, Africa, Middle East and South Asia and brings this experience to Canopus to drive our Americas expansion.
Advisors
Kevin Bloch
Advisor
Kevin is the founder and principal of Bloch Advisory Pty Ltd, a corporate technology advisory firm whose aim is to help organisations make strategic investments in technology, in either development or implementation or both.
Kevin was previously Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Cisco Australia and NZ for over twelve years, after nine years in other senior technology roles including leading Engineering in the region across Cisco’s entire technology portfolio.
Genevieve Gregor
Advisor
Genevieve has over 25 years of experience in various investment, commercial and finance roles across banking, private and public companies including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Glencore.
Chris Deere
Advisor
Chris has over 20 years of experience in the Telecoms industry including Executive and Director roles with companies such as Vocus Communications, Countrytell and the NNNCo.
The values that our team commit to
We Challenge
We innovate to create positive change.
We Respect
We are a good partner, provider, colleague.
We Inspire
We inspire new ways of thinking, working and delivering.
We Listen
We listen to understand, to value, to solve, to improve.