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Dean Drako is an American businessman and serial entrepreneur who has started more than five companies. Drako is best known as a co-founder, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks (NYSE Ticker CUDA)〔SJ Mercury News (Biz Break: Barracuda Networks IPO primes pump for Twitter )〕 from 2003 to July 2012. Drako is currently President and CEO of Eagle Eye Networks.〔Security Info Watch (Michael Dell bankrolls Eagle Eye Networks )〕 He is also an active angel investor.〔Dow Jones (Serial Entrepreneur and Ex-Barracuda CEO Launches Eagle Eye Networks to Take Video to the Cloud )〕 He graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MS in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.〔Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series, Dean Drako (Sept 2008 )〕 As of 2013, Drako is a holder of 27 patents, including patents in network security, network protocols, digital circuits, software, biochemical processes, and sporting equipment.〔US Patent Collection database search (July 2013 )〕 ==Career History== In 1982, Drako founded his first company, which sold a bulletin board system software package called T-net, used to share messages via modems. Drako used the profits to fund his college education.〔CTAN (January 2013 )〕〔Apple II Computer Info (Page 67 )〕 In 1992, Drako founded Design Acceleration, Inc, served as its CEO,〔EETimes: DAI Reorganizes for Next Stage Growth (Jul 1997 )〕 and sold it to Cadence Design Systems in 1999.〔EETimes: Cadence acquires verification tool vendor DAI ( Jan 1999 )〕 Drako was also founder and CEO of Boldfish and Velosel;〔Deepchip: How Dean Drako's 1/2 billion dollar "side hobby" might change EDA ( August 2012 )〕 Boldfish was acquired by Siebel Systems in 2003.〔Bloomberg Businessweek: Boldfish (Retrieved March 2013 )〕 In 2003 Drako founded IC Manage,〔Deepchip: How Dean Drako's 1/2 billion dollar "side hobby" might change EDA ( August 2012 )〕 where he continues to be president and CEO.〔IC Manage management page: ( Retrieved April 2013 )〕 Drako has written a number of articles on open source, big data, and system on chip design.〔DeepChip: Big Data analytics coming for chip design (May 2014 )〕〔DeepChip: Design and IP management metrics (May 2014 )〕〔NetworkWorld Open Source Developers Must Chart Clear Defense in the Patent Wars (Nov 2007 )〕〔EETimes: IP reuse requires both design reuse and verification reuse (April 2013 )〕 Drako is a frequently invited speaker and contributor on the topic of entrepreneurship, including by UC Berkeley,〔Berkeley Innovators (Fresh off of Barracuda's IPO, Dean Drako MS '88 launches Eagle Eye & talks entrepreneurship with Berkeley Innovators )〕〔UC Berkeley CET 2015 (Dean Drako, CEO Eagle Eye Networks )〕〔UC Berkeley Newton Lectures (Dean Drako, CEO Barracuda Networks )〕 University of Michigan,〔University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship (Dean Drako Entrepreneurship Talk )〕 ISPD,〔ISPD (Concept & Research to Revenue: An Entrepreneurial Story )〕 and Forbes.〔Forbes (7 CEOs Reveal Lessons Learned as a Chief Executive )〕〔Forbes (7 CEOs Give Advice to First-Timers )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dean Drako」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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