Magued Barsoum: Chief Technical Officer and VP of Product Management

Magued Barsoum is the Chief Technical Officer and VP of Product Management at Fortress Technologies, responsible for the overall corporate technical direction as well as system architecture.

Prior to joining Fortress Technologies, Barsoum was a Principal Architect with EZchip Technologies, focusing on next generation chip architectures as well as system designs around the EZchip product family. As Principal Systems Architect at Quarry Technologies he focused on the packet-forwarding path of the iQ4000/iQ8000 Services Edge Switches. Barsoum has also held engineering positions working on DSLAMs at both US Robotics and 3Com. He holds a B.Sc. and M.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an MA from Brandeis University, and has earned credit towards the completion of a Ph.D. as a Guggenheim Fellow at California Institute of Technology.