Mark Canepa resigned as Chief Executive Officer and as director of Extreme Networks on 22 October 2009 . He joined Extreme Networks as CEO on August 30, 2006.
Previous to his position at Extreme, he was the former Executive Vice President, Data Management Group for Sun Microsystems. He left Sun on May 15, 2006 and was replaced by David Yen.
Canepa's educational background includes both a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and he has also completed the University of Pennsylvania's Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School. Canepa joined Sun in October 1996, and took his position as Executive Vice President five years later in April 2001, having served in multiple vice president and general manager roles in the organization.
Prior to joining Sun, Canepa held several general manager positions in Hewlett-Packard, including development and marketing of the firm's workstation division.
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