Owais Hassan: Vice President of Engineering

Owais Hassan is responsible for all engineering, QA and development at Fortress, where his expertise has led to the development and delivery of Fortress's wireless infrastructure and security products.

Owais has more than fifteen years of industry experience in the design and implementation of advanced networking equipment and hard real-time embedded systems. He has served with leading companies, including Legra Systems, Sycamore Networks and FORE Systems, and has held senior engineering positions at both start-up and large companies. Most recently, he was the Founding Director of Hardware Engineering at Legra Systems, where he led the development of Wi-Fi switch, radio and wireless security technologies and delivered the WLAN Switch in record time. Prior to Legra, Owais developed Sycamore Networks' 10G PHY, SONET and FEC technologies and delivered its carrier-class Transport Switch with a capacity of 160Gbps. At FORE, he developed the very first OC-48c ATM Port in the industry, developed packet forwarding and traffic engineering technologies and contributed to the development of FORE's award-winning ASX family of Internet Switches (10G to 40G). Owais holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) from West Virginia University.