Team

Ophir Ronen is highly experienced in network engineering with a strong focus on redundancy, reliability, high availability, and quality of service. Areas of expertise include routing, switching, peering, circuit design, and network architecture.

In 1996, he co-founded Internap Network Services and designed and implemented Internap's core routing architecture and technology. While doing so he also designed, built, and commissioned the first three Internap Private Network Access Points (PNAPs) in Seattle, San Francisco, and New York. He is the holder of four patents (6009081, 6912222, 6981055, 7555542), and published in the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-05) .

Jared Reimer is the founder of Cascadeo Corporation. Jared has 20 years of experience in the Internet and telecommunications industries, beginning with pre-Internet bulletin board system operation.

During his time in the competitive telecommunications industry, Jared acquired and sold several Internet-centric companies, and also served as the turn-around CEO of a large independent ISP headquartered in Arizona. He is also one of the founding board members of the Seattle Internet Exchange -- one of the world's largest open IP peering facilities. Jared holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington.

Chris Reimer is the Director of Business Development for Cascadeo Corporation. Chris joined Cascadeo in January of 2008 in response to the continued demand and growth of the company. He brings over 12 years of experience in sales, business development, finance, and project management to the firm. Chris graduated from Western Washington University earning a bachelor’s degree in Business, with a dual concentration in Management Information Systems and Finance, as well as a minor in Economics. In addition to his work experience and education, Chris volunteers for the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) as a host for their events. In his free time, Chris enjoys traveling the world, SCUBA diving, skiing, photography, hiking, live music, and is an avid Seattle sports fan.

Chris Ellis is a Systems Engineer for Cascadeo Corporation. Chris has been tinkering with computers and technology since the late 90's and has the rare skill of bridging the gap between geeks and less savvy computer folks. He has worked in many areas of the industry, including web site building, design, project management, systems and network engineering.

Prior to Cascadeo, Prem co-founded StratLoc Corporation, a company involved in R&D of location technology. He enjoys reading and debugging other people's code.

His areas of expertise include systems engineering, embedded Linux, thin client technologies, and platform virtualization. He is currently studying Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of the Philippines.

Trish leads Cascadeo's Financial operations. She graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Psychology in 1997. Trish brings with her over nine years of experience in Accounting and Finance. She has worked for companies at every stage ranging from start up to Fortune 500. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, camping, snow skiing, and yoga. She resides in Seattle, Washington with her husband and two children.

Cathy began her networking career in 1988 at Merit, Inc where she worked on the NSFNet backbone and also CICNet, a network which interconnected the Big 10 universities. She engineered routing and addressing for BARRNet, the Energy Sciences Network, as well as @Home Network.

Cathy was most recently a member of the technical staff at Packet Design, where she was responsible for operational aspects of their Internet scaling projects. Cathy has served on the ARIN Advisory Council continuously since 1997 and as well as one term on the ASO Address Council.

Io is one of Cascadeo's Project Managers. She graduated from Seattle University with a Masters in Psychology back in 2000. Io has worked in a variety of areas: early childhood education, mental health counseling, program development, and program management. She has worked in both the for-profit, and non-profit sections and brings extensive experience in project management. Io lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and two young kids. She enjoys traveling, kickboxing, dancing, and lounging on the beach.

Jerome started his career as a Research Associate at the University of the Philippines. As a Research Associate, he has been involved in the design and implementation of a telemedicine system for the Philippines. He has also been involved in a Rural Internet Connectivity Project during his undergraduate years. He enjoys just walking and cycling in his free time.

Josefa is Cascadeo's executive assistant. Before joining the Cascadeo staff in December 2008, Josefa spent nine years working in a wide range of industries including telecommunications, non - profit, micro - finance, and distribution. She earned her Bachelors Degree in 1999 with academic concentration in Business Management. Her work for Cascadeo includes assistance to all Cascadeo staff, managing calendar, correspondence, research, filing.She loves reading and spends most of her free time with her husband and 3 kids.