Danny Parker

Chairman, President & CEO

Danny Parker is a telecommunications industry veteran with over 25 years of executive management experience covering Corporate Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, General Management, Marketing, Product Line Management, Business Development, Product Development, New Product Introduction, Customer Service and Operations management. Danny has served as a director on the Velleros Board since November 2007 and joined the Velleros management team as President and Chief Executive Officer on July 1, 2008. Danny was also elected Velleros Board Chairman in June, 2012. Prior to joining Velleros Danny was with Tekelec for 14 years where he led Tekelec’s strategic planning, business development and merger and acquisition activities as the Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer since October, 2000. In that role Danny was also responsible for Tekelec’s investments in emerging technology based private companies, and served as Tekelec’s representative on the boards of those companies, including Telica (Acquired by Lucent) , Santera (acquired by GENBAND), BroadSoft (IPO'd) and IEX (acquired by NICE). Prior to that, Danny held a variety of other executive management positions at Tekelec including Vice President and General Manager, Network Diagnostics Division and Vice President Product Line Management and Marketing in the company’s Network Signaling Division. Prior to joining Tekelec, Danny was with Nortel for 14 years where he held key executive management positions in Customer Service, Product Development, Product Verification and Product Line Management. Danny completed the Advanced Management Program at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.