Prayson Pate

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer at Overture Networks, Inc.

Prayson Pate

Prayson Pate

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer at Overture Networks, Inc.

Overview

Career Highlights

Overture Networks, Inc.

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Jeff Reedy

President at Overture Networks, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Stewart Gollmer

Founder & Managing Director at Tenaya Capital LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Gary Morgenthaler

Partner at Morgenthaler Management Corp.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Sunil Menon

Senior Vice President, Global Engineering at Overture Networks, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Betsy Creech

Vice President, Human Resources at Overture Networks, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Barry Shapiro

Vice President, Operations at Overture Networks, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

John Gerdelman

Managing Partner at River 2 Tap, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Mike Aquino

GM, Global Government Solutions at Ciena Corp.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Philip Richard Herget, III

Managing Partner at Avonlea Capital

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Andrew P. Goldfarb

Executive Managing Director/Co-Founder at Nantero, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

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In The News

Business Wire

December 2, 2020

ADVA recognized as an Intel Network Builders Winners' Circle Leaders Board partner; News summary:

ICT Monitor Worldwide

March 19, 2020

Dispersive Introduces Unity Technology and Networking Partner Ecosystem

Business Wire

October 14, 2019

ADVA recognized as a Leaders Board Partner in the Intel® Network Builders' Program; Ensemble Connector NFV platform as an Intel® Select Solution for uCPE achieves Leaders Board status

GlobeNewswire

February 4, 2019

ADVA's Ensemble Harmony Ecosystem reaches new heights

AWP OTS (Original Text Service)

September 5, 2018

GNW: Ensemble delivers major new release for NFV management and orchestration

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Prayson Pate

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer at Overture Networks, Inc.

Education

M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering

Class of 1988

The Robert Gordon University

The Robert Gordon University, commonly referred to as RGU, is a public university in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.

B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Class of 1984

Duke University

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University,officially North Carolina State University at Raleigh,is a public, coeducational, research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State or simply State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution. The university forms one of the corners of the Research Triangle together with Duke University in Durham and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Career History

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

2000 - Current

Overture Networks, Inc.

Overture Networks, Inc. provides virtualization solutions to carrier-class service providers.The company was founded by Prayson Pate and Jeffrey W. Reedy in September 6, 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Chief Technology Officer, Edge Cloud

Current

ADVA Optical Networking SE

ADVA Optical Networking SE engages in the development, manufacture and selling of optical and Ethernet-based networking solutions. It operates through the Development, Marketing and Sale of Optical Networking Solutions. Its products and services include scalable optical transport, carrier Ethernet access, and automated network management. The company was founded by Brian Protvia on January 20, 1994 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Engineering Director

1992 - Prior

Larscom, Inc.

Larscom, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets high speed global internetworking solutions for net service providers and corporate users. Its products provide access to fractional TI, frame, relay channelized T3, integrated services digital network etc. Its customers include NSPs, internet service providers, fortune 500 corporations, systems intergrators, value added resellers and government agencies. It was headquartered at Newark, California.

Transactions

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Overture Networks, Inc. raised money in a private placement transaction

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Overture Networks, Inc. raised money in a private placement transaction

Investments

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Overture Networks, Inc.

Overture Networks, Inc. provides virtualization solutions to carrier-class service providers.The company was founded by Prayson Pate and Jeffrey W. Reedy in September 6, 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Events

Speaker

Munich Westin Grand Hotel-Munich, Bavaria

2014 Telco Cloud World Forum

Other Affiliations

Prayson Pate is affiliated with Overture Networks, Inc., ADVA Optical Networking SE, Larscom, Inc., Fiberlane Communications Canada, Inc., Hatteras Networks, Inc., Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

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