Advisors/Directors

Richard (Dick) Swee 
rswee@sagealliances.com

Mr Swee has over 30 years founding, developing, and managing Engineering, Support and Manufacturing organizations for companies producing carrier grade (NEBS compliant) telephony, networking, and high performance computers with 99.999% reliability.  

For the last 20 years he has consistently held positions of Senior Vice President, Vice President or Director. He is known for developing and delivering quality products, within budget, and in short time frames.  

Most recently, at Atcomm, he developed a converged voice, data, and video switch for the high-volume CPE market. It included H.323, MGCP, SIP, call control, WAN and LAN switching in a single all-in-one VCR-sized box. As the senior V.P. of an entire operation in Manchester, NH, his responsibilities included Manufacturing, Customer Support and Training, as well as all of Engineering.  

Prior to Atcomm he was most recently at Summa Four/Cisco, Tylink/Sync Research, Ungermann Bass and Kendall Square Research.  

At Summa Four he developed 2 new generations of high-density carrier-grade voice switch products that were sold to over 40 countries world-wide to RBOC's , CLEC's and PTT's. More than 5000 switches were installed. The switch technology included: computer telephony, voice, data, SS7, ISDN , worldwide country variants (tone plans, SS7, ISDN), IP-based voice VoIP, MGCP, SIP, MEGACOP and H.248 (nee H.GCP). Over 20 patent applications resulted from these new product developments. Mr Swee played a key role in the sale of Summa Four to Cisco.  

At Tylink he was responsible for the design and development of all their WAN, Frame-Relay and Circuit Management products. Customers included Wells-Fargo Bank. Mr Swee was key to the sale of Tylink to Synch Research.  

At Ungermann Bass, he managed the development of a 24-port stackable ethernet switch and concentrator and a 16-port ATM switch.  

At Kendall Square Research his organization was responsible for the design and development of hardware, software, and diagnostics for a UNIX scalable massively parallel supercomputer. The product was installed at over 50 sites around the world.  

Mr Swee holds a B.S from Northwestern and an M.S.C.S from the University of Illinois.  

Mr. Swee has been a speaker at tradeshows in Europe, Asia, and the US.