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Roderick K. Randall

Trustee | Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology Board

Roderick K. Randall

Trustee | Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology Board
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Biography

Roderick K. Randall is a Trustee of the Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology Board.

Randall has spent over 25 years in the technology and computer networking industry as an entrepreneur, senior executive, and venture capitalist. He was a founding partner at Vesbridge Partners and a General Partner at St. Paul Venture Capital, where he led the mobile investment practice. Previously, Mr. Randall was CMO of Lucent Technologies and was Vice President of Marketing at Ascend.

Prior to that, Mr. Randall was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Stratus Computer, Inc. and General Manager of its SS7 business, and was Vice President of Strategic Market Development at Madge Networks, following its 1996 acquisition of Teleos Communications. He had co-founded Teleos in 1987 and served many roles including CTO, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, and Vice President of WAN Access Technology. He began his career at AT&T Bell Labs and holds several U.S. patents. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Mavenir, PGi, and Stratus Technologies.

Roderick is a member of the Board of Overseers of PBS TV producer and broadcaster WGBH. Mr. Randall was previously a member of the Board of Directors of TNS, Tekelec, Airvana, Bytemobile, Bitfone, Snowshore, Teltier Technologies, ProQuent, FusionOne, Dynamicsoft, and VisageMobile.

Randall received an undergraduate degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a graduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.