Procera has an executive team with many years of experience in the networking industry. This team has the industry knowledge, contacts and experience required to drive success in the company.

James F. Brear, President and CEO

James F. Brear, an industry veteran with more than 18 years of experience in the networking industry, leads Procera Networks to further the company’s position as the leader in  managing and monetizing the world’s most complex networks. Most recently, Mr. Brear served as vice president of worldwide sales and support for Bivio Networks, a maker of deep packet inspection platform technology.  Under his leadership, the company rapidly expanded its worldwide sales presence, resulting in sales to a number of global Tier 1 service providers, government agencies, and Global OEMs. Prior to Bivio, Brear was vice president of worldwide sales for Tasman Networks (acquired by Nortel), a maker of converged WAN solutions for enterprise branch offices and service providers.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Brear was the vice president of worldwide sales for Force10 Networks, where he was responsible for taking the company from a pre-revenue start-up to the industry leader in switch routers for high performance Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. In addition, he spent five years with Cisco Systems where he held senior management positions in Europe and North America with responsibility for delivering more than $750M in annual revenues selling into the world’s largest service providers.  Previously, Brear held a variety of sales management positions at both IBM and Sprint Communications.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Charles Constanti, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Constanti, Vice President and CFO, brings over 23 years of public company financial experience and a track record of delivering results to Procera Networks. Most recently, Mr. Constanti was the vice president and CFO of Netopia, Inc., a telecommunications equipment and software company, from April 2005 until its acquisition in February 2007 by Motorola, Inc., where he has held a senior finance position for the past two years. From May 2001 to April 2005, Mr. Constanti was the vice president and corporate controller of Quantum Corporation, for which he earlier served in different accounting and finance positions since January 1997. Before that, Mr. Constanti held various finance positions at BankAmerica Corporation for 8 years, including vice president positions in accounting policy and corporate general accounting. Mr. Constanti was an auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers for several years and is a certified public accountant. He earned a B.S in Accounting from Binghamton University.