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CARL SHOWALTER | General Partner
Carl Showalter is a founding partner of Opus Capital investing in Internet and data communications startups. Previously, Carl was a General Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Carl brings more than 12 years of operating experience to Opus. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Marketing at Juniper Networks, where he built and led a global marketing and product management organization. Prior to Juniper, Carl was Vice President of Dial and Broadband Services for UUNET, overseeing the 300-person, $1B revenue division.
He also held various sales and management positions at ANS, an AOL company, where he helped build AOL's modem access network and then helped launch hardware-based firewalls and IP VPNs in the mid 1990's. Carl began his career at Bellcore, focusing on network security and data service delivery. At Bellcore, Carl performed logical and physical attacks on phone company infrastructure, helping them fix these vulnerabilities.
Carl holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MS degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.