Seyhan Civanlar Ph.D.

Dr. Civanlar is the VP Research & Development for Argela Technologies, the leading Turkish telecom service provider. She is formerly Founding CEO and & CTO of Lemur Networks, an enabling IP Services platform startup. She was previously at Coreon, a Kleiner Perkins backed startup, where she was Vice President of Internet Technology. There, she oversaw the development of state-of-the-art IP based network solutions and services such as Voice over IP and Virtual Private Networks for Coreon's clients. She brings more than a decade of data networking, Internet technology, and application platform development experience to Equip's Advisory Board.

Prior to joining Coreon, as a Division Manager in AT&T's Internet Technology and Lab Architecture Units, she was responsible for the delivery of several network-facing IP platform components, including Quality of Service, Multi Protocol Label Switching, call control and content distribution. Before that, Dr. Civanlar directed the design and development of AT&T's OC48 Worldnet IP Backbone. In 1997, she was instrumental in the creation of one of AT&T's flagship offerings, Managed Internet Service. During the course of her career, Dr. Civanlar also held several technical and management positions within AT&T Bell Laboratories. She holds 16 patents and is a frequently published technical expert on networking topics. She has been an active contributor to the ATM Forum working groups LAN Emulation and MultiProtocol over ATM. She also served as chairperson at a number of international networking conferences.

Dr. Civanlar earned both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She completed her Doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University.

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