Management Team

Joy Weiss

Joy Weiss
President

Over the past 30 years, Joy Weiss has provided leadership for a broad range of technology companies. Joy was steeped in networking technologies early in her career in a variety of R&D, sales and general management roles at Nortel Networks, including her role as President and GM of Nortel’s Network Management division where she presided over record-breaking growth. As President and CEO of Esker, Joy led the enterprise software company through its IPO and subsequent merger with Teubner, Inc. Most recently, Joy served as President and CEO of Inviso, an award-winning microdisplay company. Joy holds a BS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kris Pister Kris Pister
Founder and Chief Technologist
The inventor of Smart Dust and a longtime leader in the academic wireless sensor networking community, Kris Pister co-founded Dust Networks in 2002 to deliver his vision of a commercially robust wireless sensor networking platform. Kris is the chief architect of Dust Networks’ SmartMesh® technology, and also provides a strong technology vision for the company and for the wireless sensing industry—Kris is a frequent invited speaker and lecturer on wireless sensor networking and related core technologies. Kris holds a PhD and MS in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley and a BS from UC San Diego.
Eva Chen Eva Chen
Vice President, Operations & Quality
As Vice President of Operations, Eva brings over 25 years of Operations and Quality Management experience in the high-technology market, with expertise in new product introduction, offshore manufacturing, strategic vendor partnerships, quality management and customer service. Prior to Dust Networks, Eva most recently served as Director of Customer Experience at Intuit. Prior to Intuit, Eva held a variety of roles at both large companies and start-ups, including Vice President of Manufacturing at New Wave Research, Vice President of Operations at Inviso, Director of Engineering at ABB, and Chief Operating Officer at Wise Medical Systems. Earlier in her career, Eva held management roles at E-Mu systems, NeXT Computers, and ROLM Corporation. Eva holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brenda Glaze Brenda Glaze
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
As Vice-President of Sales, Brenda brings two decades of networking, computing and consumer customer sales success to Dust Networks. She has extensive experience in building and managing world class field organizations, as well as experience in the startup environment. Most recently Brenda served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Chelsio Communications. Prior to that, she was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for C-Cube Microsystems, Inc--a leader in digital video technology (acquired by LSI Logic). From 1993 to 1998, Brenda held a variety of sales/sales management positions with VLSI Technology (acquired by Philips Semiconductor), ending her tenure at VLSI as the Vice-President of Sales for Western North America. Brenda received her BS in Business Management from Arizona State University.
Dave Lynch Dave Lynch
Chief Financial Officer
CFO Dave Lynch brings 16 years of experience to the administration of accounting and human resources. Prior to joining Dust Networks, Dave served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance and Alliances for Zack Systems, where he directed financial services and human resources. Dave also worked for Assurance and Emerging Company Services divisions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, where he was responsible for software and internet corporations. Previously, he served as Vice President of Well Fargo’s East Bay small business financing unit where he sourced and closed over $20 million in commitments. Dave holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA in history and business from UCLA.
Gordon Charles

Gordon Charles

Senior Director, Hardware
As Senior Director of Hardware, Gordon brings more than 19 years of integrated circuit hardware and embedded system development experience in networking, computing and consumer markets to Dust Networks. Most recently he served as Director of Engineering for LSI and C-Cube Microsystems, Inc. (acquired by LSI). From 1991 to 2000, Gordon held a variety of management and design positions with Seiko Epson, Divicom and C-Cube Microsystems. He holds several patents in the areas of integrated circuit system on a chip architecture and 2D graphics. Gordon received his Bachelors of Applied Science from Simon Fraser University
Alain Levesque

Alain Levesque

Senior Director, Software & Systems
Alain brings over 20 years of experience managing software, systems, software validation, and board level hardware engineering teams dedicated towards developing products for the video, graphics, image processing, and networking markets. He held Director and Senior Director positions at LSI and C-Cube Microsystems for 11 years prior to joining Dust Networks, focused on digital video decoders and codecs for the professional video, DVD, set-top box, and cable modem markets. Previously, Alain held various engineering management positions with Matrox Electronics in Montreal, Canada. Alain holds a BS in engineering from Concordia University and is a member of Quebec’s Professional Order of Engineers (OIQ).
Ken Chum

Ken Chum
Senior Director, Operations
As Senior Director of Operations, Ken leads and manages the overall strategic direction of global supply chain and operations. Prior to Dust Networks, Ken was most recently served as Director of Global Operations at Celestica, a tier one multinational electronic manufacturing services company, where he was in charge of > $300M annual revenue. Prior to Celestica, Ken worked as Sr. Associate Development Engineer at IBM Canada R&D Lab. Ken has a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Computer Science, a Master of Engineering Science in Electrical Engineering, and a Ph.D. on Electrical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.