Hammerhead Systems, a start-up based in San Jose, California, named Joe Sigrist as President and CEO. Sigrist joins from Lucent Technologies where he was President of the Edge Access Systems division. Hammerhead Systems is developing data communications equipment for service providers.
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- Hammerhead Systems was founded was founded in January of 2002 by Rob Keil, a former Cisco/StrataCom executive, and John Yu, formerly of SBC. Hammerhead has secured $18 million in Series A funding from Foundation Capital, Mayfield, Enterprise Partners and Lighthouse Capital.